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Title: TO EXPLAIN THE WORLD
THE DISCOVERY OF MODERN SCIENCE
By: Steven Weinberg
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141980877
ISBN 13: 9780141980874
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 February, 2016
Pages: 432
Description: Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, the author shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand.
Synopsis: In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand. Yet eventually, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of tides, the modern discipline of science emerged.
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Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
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