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Wondrous Truths - The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science (Hardcover)
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Wondrous Truths - The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science (Hardcover)
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A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story
of scientific progress. Explaining the world around us, and the
life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the
most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what
provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but
explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it
to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries in the
natural world. Explanations give us a sense of understanding, but
an explanation that feels right doesn't mean it is true. For every
true explanation, there is a false one that feels just as good. A
good theory's explanations, though, have a much easier path to
truth. This push for good explanations elevated science from
medieval alchemy to electro-chemistry, or a pre-inertial physics to
the forces underlying nanoparticles. And though the attempt to
explain has existed as long as we have been able to wonder, a
science timeline from pre-history to the present will reveal a
steep curve of theoretical discovery that explodes around 1600,
primarily in the West. Ranging over neuroscience, psychology,
history, and policy, Wondrous Truths answers two fundamental
questions - Why did science progress in the West? And why so
quickly? J.D. Trout's answers are surprising. His central idea is
that Western science rose above all others because it hit upon
successive theories that were approximately true through an awkward
assortment of accident and luck, geography and personal
idiosyncrasy. Of course, intellectual ingenuity partially accounts
for this persistent drive forward. But so too does the persistence
of the objects of wonder. Wondrous Truths recovers the majesty of
science, and provides a startling new look at the grand sweep of
its biggest ideas.
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