Science
A Four Thousand Year History
(Sprache: Englisch)
All those interested in the history of science and its development, from earliest times up to the 21st century
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All those interested in the history of science and its development, from earliest times up to the 21st century
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A groundbreaking new history of science, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have made science the powerful global phenomenon that it is today.
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Introduction; PART I: ORIGINS; 1. Sevens; 2. Babylon; 3. Heroes; 4. Cosmos; 5. Life; 6. Matter; 7. Technology; PART II: INTERACTIONS; 8. Eurocentrism; 9. China; 10. Islam; 11. Scholarship; 12. Europe; 13. Aristotle; 14. Alchemy; PART III: EXPERIMENTS; 15. Exploration; 16. Magic; 17. Astronomy; 18. Bodies; 19. Machines; 20. Instruments; 21. Gravity; PART IV: INSTITUTIONS; 22. Societies; 23. Systems; 24. Careers; 25. Industries; 26. Revolutions; 27. Rationality; 28. Disciplines; PART V: LAWS; 29. Progress; 30. Globalization; 31. Objectivity; 32. God; 33. Evolution; 34. Power; 35. Time; PART VI: INVISIBLES; 36. Life; 37. Disease; 38. Rays; 39. Particles; 40. Genes; 41. Chemicals; 42. Uncertainties; PART VII; 43. Warfare; 44. Heredity; 45. Cosmology; 46. Information; 47. Rivalry; 48. Environment; 49. Futures; Postscript
Autoren-Porträt von Patricia Fara
Patricia Fara lectures in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and is the Senior Tutor of Clare College. Her major research speciality is eighteenth-century England, but she has published a range of academic and popular books on the history of science, increasingly with an emphasis on analysing scientific imagery. She has written many reviews and articles for academic journals as well as for general publications, including History Today, New Scientist, Nature, The Times and New Statesman; she writes a regular column on scientific portraits for Endeavour.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patricia Fara
- 2009, 408 Seiten, 59 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16,3 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019922689X
- ISBN-13: 9780199226894
Sprache:
Englisch
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