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The ascent of science /

0195116992 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780195116991 (cloth : alk. paper)

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The ascent of science /

[Book]

Brian L. Silver.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

1998.

xviii, 534 p. :

ill. ;

26 cm.

"A Solomon Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-518) and index.

Newton gets it completely wrong -- I believe -- Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong -- The second law -- Predicting catastrophe -- From Newton to De Sade: the partial triumph of reason -- From Rousseau to Blake : the revolt against reason -- Lodestone, amber, and lightning -- Belief and action -- The demise of alchemy -- The nineteenth century -- The material trinity : the atom -- The stuff of existence -- Scipio's dream -- Making waves -- The ubiquity of motion -- Energy -- Entropy : intimations of mortality -- Chaos -- The slow birth of biology -- In a monastery garden -- Evolution -- The descent of man -- The gene machine -- The lords of nature? -- Life : the molecular battle -- The origin of life? : take your choice -- The inexplicable quantum -- New ways of thinking -- The land of paradox -- The elementary particles -- Relativity -- Cosmology -- The cosmos and peeping Tom -- The impossibility of creation -- The tree of death -- "What the devil does it all mean?" -- The future.

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Provides an overview of Western science from the Renaissance to the present.

Science-- History.

Science-- Philosophy.

Thought and thinking-- History.

Silver, Brian L.

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