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Author : Stephen Finney Mason
Release : 1962
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis A History of the Sciences by : Stephen Finney Mason
Download or read book A History of the Sciences written by Stephen Finney Mason. This book was released on 1962. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marina Frasca-Spada
Release : 2000-11-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 390/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Books and the Sciences in History by : Marina Frasca-Spada
Download or read book Books and the Sciences in History written by Marina Frasca-Spada. This book was released on 2000-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, published in 2000, examines the intersection between science and books from early medieval times to the nineteenth century.
Author : Clifford D Conner
Release : 2009-04-24
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 867/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A People's History of Science by : Clifford D Conner
Download or read book A People's History of Science written by Clifford D Conner. This book was released on 2009-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong. A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development. It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of quantum theory or the structure of DNA can be credited directly to artisans or peasants, but if modern science is likened to a skyscraper, then those twentieth-century triumphs are the sophisticated filigrees at its pinnacle that are supported by the massive foundation created by the rest of us.
Author : John Gribbin
Release : 2009-08-27
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 222/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Science: A History by : John Gribbin
Download or read book Science: A History written by John Gribbin. This book was released on 2009-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric, even the mad. This diversecast includes, among others, Andreas Vesalius, landmark 16th-century anatomist and secret grave-robber; the flamboyant Galileo, accused of heresy for his ideas; the obsessive, competitive Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; GregorMendel, the Moravian monk who founded modern genetics; and Louis Agassiz, so determined to prove the existence of ice ages that he marched his colleagues up a mountain to show them the evidence.
Author : Lesley Cormack
Release : 2012-03-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 484/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Science in Society by : Lesley Cormack
Download or read book A History of Science in Society written by Lesley Cormack. This book was released on 2012-03-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack trace the history of science through its continually changing place in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. In this edition, the authors examine the robust intellectual exchange between East and West and provide new discussions of two women in science: Maria Merian and Maria Winkelmann. A chapter on the relationship between science and war has been added as well as a section on climate change. The further readings section has been updated to reflect recent contributions to the field. Other new features include timelines at the end of each chapter, 70 upgraded illustrations, and new maps of Renaissance Europe, Captain James Cook's voyages, the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, and the main war front during World War I.
