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The Earth - From Myths to Knowledge (Hardcover)
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The Earth - From Myths to Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its
billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters
every literate high school student is expected to grasp. But
humanity's struggle towards these scientific truths lasted
millennia. Few of us have more than the faintest notion of the path
we have travelled. Hubert Krivine tells the story of the thinkers
and scientists whose work allowed our species to put an age to the
planet and pinpoint our place in the solar system. It is a history
of bold innovators, with a broad cast of contributors - not only
Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, but Halley, Kelvin, Darwin and
Rutherford, among many others. Courage, iniquity, religious
dogmatism, genius and blind luck all played a part. This was an
epic struggle to free the mind from the constraints of cant,
ideology and superstition. From this history, Krivine delineates an
invaluable philosophy of science, one today under threat from
irrationalism and the fundamentalist movements of East and West,
which threaten both what we have attained at great cost and what we
still have to learn. Scientific progress is not a sufficient
condition for social progress; but it is a necessary one. The Earth
is not merely a history of scientific learning, but a stirring
defence of Enlightenment values in the quest for human advancement.
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