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Reinvention Of Science, The: Slaying The Dragons Of Dogma And Ignorance (Hardcover)
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Reinvention Of Science, The: Slaying The Dragons Of Dogma And Ignorance (Hardcover)
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Throughout the history of science, different thinkers, philosophers
and scientists postulated the existence of entities that, in spite
of their not being visible or detectable in their time, or perhaps
ever, were nevertheless useful to explain the real world. We
started this book by looking at a handful of these entities. These
included phlogiston to account for fire; the luminiferous ether for
propagation of radiation; the homunculus to provide for heredity;
and crystalline spheres to carry the wandering planets around the
earth. Many of these erroneous beliefs had held up progress, like
dragons on the edges of a map discouraging exploration. This
pattern of science evolution continued through the centuries up to
the present day.The book evolved into a more extensive history of
how science evolved through controversy, suppression, and the wish
to maintain the status quo. Our story passes from the Babylonians
and Greeks through the middle ages, the renaissance and the
scientific revolution to almost current events. We discuss the
evolution of our world, the controversy about the extinction of
dinosaurs, and open questions in contemporary science such as dark
matter, black holes and the origin of the Universe, including how
we understand the subatomic world of elementary particles.Most of
the chapters deal with astronomy, cosmology and physics, but there
are brief ventures into geosciences (continental drift),
biosciences (the homunculus), atmospheric physics (Heaviside
layer), paleontology (the extinction of dinosaurs), and computer
science (artificial intelligence). The authors present a sequence
of how mistakes and fallacies have been purged from our quest to
understand nature. The way these changes have come about are
skillfully set in their relevant historical contexts.
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