@article{718516,
      author = {Weinberg, Steven,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/718516},
      title = {To explain the world : the discovery of modern science /},
      abstract = {"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus  to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and  the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of  Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the  scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not  understand what we understand about the world--they did not  understand what there is to understand, or how to  understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle  to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of  the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern  discipline of science eventually emerged"--Amazon.com.},
      recid = {718516},
      pages = {xiv, 416 pages :},
}