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Cargando... The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the Twentieth Centurypor Gerard Piel
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Subtitled, "what scientists learned in the twentieth century" this book's main attraction was the profession of the author, the journalist who published the "Scientific American". He starts off in a historical way, describing physics and cosmology, but seems to lose the organizing principle of twentieth century science, writing understandable and brief reviews of biology and earth science without much connection to the historical. The interesting thing about science in the 20th century is why this time supported so much inquiry. The topic, just touched on in this book, of how science has become less and less about making sense of sense impressions of the world, is also of great import. ( )
"attempts to explain a paradox of 20th-century science: the fractionation of science into specialties and subspecialties while the field as a whole was becoming increasingly interdisciplinary."
When historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the twentieth century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out above all others: more than any other era before it, the twentieth century was an age of science. Not only were the practical details of daily life radically transformed by the application of scientific discoveries, but our very sense of who we are, how our minds work, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking as never before in human history.In The Age of Science, the former editor and publisher of Scientific American gives us a sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century, with chapters on the fundamental forces of nature, the subatomic world, cosmology, the cell and molecular biology, earth history and the evolution of life, and human evolution. Beautifully written and illustrated, this is a book for the connoisseur: an elegant, informative, magisterial summation of one of the twentieth century's greatest cultural achievements. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)509.04Natural sciences and mathematics General Science History, geographic treatment, biography By Period 20th CenturyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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