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Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks (Hardcover)
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Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks (Hardcover)
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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised
enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link
back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the
path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern
with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive
international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and
industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's
fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers
and mathematicians, calculating the size of the earth whilst their
caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians
investigating light; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton,
measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the 'House
of Wisdom' in 9th-century Baghdad; Europe's first universities; the
courts of the Renaissance; the Scientific Revolution and the
academies of the 18th century; the increasingly specialised world
of 20th and 21st century science. Highlighting the shifting
relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and
technology - and the implications for humankind's
self-understanding - Heilbron explores the changing place and
purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured
it over the centuries.
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