A Short History Of Natural Science
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Author | : David C. Cassidy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674725824 |
As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the physical advances underlying these applications are poorly understood and underappreciated by U.S. citizens. In this overview, Cassidy views physics through America's engagement with the political events of a tumultuous century.
Author | : Brian W. Ogilvie |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226620867 |
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. To do so, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. By the early seventeenth century, naturalists began the daunting task of sorting through the wealth of information they had accumulated, putting a new emphasis on taxonomy and classification. Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, and photographs, The Science of Describing is the first broad interpretation of Renaissance natural history in more than a generation and will appeal widely to an interdisciplinary audience.
Author | : Arabella Burton Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Author | : Stephen M. Barr |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1932236929 |
Physicist Stephen M. Barr’s lucid Student’s Guide to Natural Science gives students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr discusses the contributions of the ancient Greeks, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role religion played in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major theoretical breakthroughs of modern physics. Throughout this thoughtful guide, Barr draws his readers’ attention to the larger themes and trends of scientific history, including the increasing unification of our view of the physical world, in which the laws of nature appear increasingly to form a single harmonious mathematical edifice.
Author | : Arabella B. Buckley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Arabella Burton Buckley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Richard Hamblyn |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 174262975X |
What these extracts are, first and foremost, are stories of discovery. The Art of Science is not necessarily a book about great scientific theories, complicated equations, or grand old men (or women) in their laboratories; instead, it's about the places we draw our inspiration from; it's about daily routines and sudden flashes of insight; about dedication, and - sometimes - desperation; and the small moments, questions, quests, clashes, doubts and delights that make us human. From Galileo to Lewis Carroll, from Humphry Davy to Charles Darwin, from Marie Curie to Stephen Jay Gould, from rust to snowflakes, from the first use of the word "scientist" to the first computer, from why the sea is salty to Newtonian physics for women, The Art of Science is a book about people, rather than scientists per se, and as such, it's a book about politics, passion and poetry. Above all, it's a book about the good that science can - and does - do.
Author | : Leon R. Kass |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2008-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1439105685 |
Kass shows how the promise and the peril of our time are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. The relation between the pursuit of knowledge and the conduct of life—between science and ethics, each broadly conceived—has in recent years been greatly complicated by developments in the science of life. This book examines the ethical questions involved in prenatal screening, in vitro fertilization, artificial life forms, and medical care, and discusses the role of human beings in nature.
Author | : afterwards FISHER BUCKLEY (Arabella Burton) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1876 |
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Author | : Scott Atran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1993-01-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521438711 |
Inspired by a debate between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, this work traces the development of natural history from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from the common conceptions of folkbiology.