Why Science? TO KNOW, UNDERSTAND ..
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
31.05.2012
Verlag
World Scientific PublishingSeitenzahl
102
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.6 cm
Gewicht
161 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-981-4397-33-9
This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized at least in the Western world as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and the Chinese, and of the unknown interiors of the American and African continents by foot and horseback. After the invention of the telescope, visual exploration of the surfaces of the Moon and Mars were made possible, and finally a visit to the Moon. The book then turns to our legacy from the ancient Greeks of wanting to understand rather than just know, and why the scientific way of understanding is valued. For concreteness, it relates the lives and accomplishments of six great scientists, four from the nineteenth century and two from the twentieth. Finally, the book explains how chemistry came to be seen as the most basic of the sciences, and then how physics became the most fundamental.
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