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This text is a sweeping, dynamic history of the whole of western science from the Renaissance to the present that translates the most profoundly important, and often impenetrably obscure, scientific developments.

Title The ascent of science / Brian L. Silver. [electronic resource]
Publisher New York
Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-518) and index.
English
Content Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong
2. I Believe
3. Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong
4. The Second Law
5. Predicting Catastrophe
6. From Newton to De Sade: The Partial Triumph of Reason
7. From Rousseau to Blake: The Revolt against Reason
8. Lodestone, Amber, and Lightning
9. Belief and Action
10. The Demise of Alchemy
11. The Nineteenth Century
12. The Material Trinity: The Atom
13. The Stuff of Existence
14. Scipio's Dream
15. Making Waves
16. The Ubiquity of Motion
17. Energy
18. Entropy: Intimations of Mortality
19. Chaos20. The Slow Birth of Biology
21. In a Monastery Garden
22. Evolution
23. The Descent of Man
24. The Gene Machine
25. The Lords of Nature?
26. Life: The Molecular Battle
27. The Origin of Life? Take Your Choice
28. The Inexplicable Quantum
29. New Ways of Thinking
30. The Land of Paradox
31. The Elementary Particles
32. Relativity
33. Cosmology
34. The Cosmos and Peeping Tom
35. The Impossibility of Creation
36. The Tree of Death
37. ""What the Devil Does It All Mean?""
38. The Future
Annotated Bibliography
Index
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C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
RS
T
U
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W
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Z
Series Oxford scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (553 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010715350405171
MARC RECORDS
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