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000718516 1001_ $$aWeinberg, Steven,$$d1933-$$eauthor.
000718516 24510 $$aTo explain the world :$$bthe discovery of modern science /$$cSteven Weinberg.
000718516 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000718516 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bHarper,$$c[2015]
000718516 300__ $$axiv, 416 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c24 cm
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000718516 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000718516 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 385-393) and index.
000718516 5050_ $$aPart I: Greek physics. Matter and poetry ; Music and mathematics ; Motion and philosophy ; Hellenistic physics and technology ; Ancient science and religion -- Part II: Greek astronomy. The uses of astronomy ; Measuring the sun, moon, and earth ; The problem of the planets -- Part III: The Middle Ages. The Arabs ; Medieval Europe -- Part IV: The scientific revolution. The solar system solved ; Experiments begun ; Method reconsidered ; The Newtonian synthesis ; Epilogue: the grand reduction.
000718516 520__ $$a"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged"--Amazon.com.
000718516 520__ $$aPresents a commentary on the history of science that examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing realms of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.
000718516 650_0 $$aScience, Ancient.
000718516 650_0 $$aScience$$zGreece$$xHistory.
000718516 650_0 $$aScience, Medieval.
000718516 650_0 $$aScience$$xHistory.
000718516 650_0 $$aScience$$xMethodology$$xHistory.
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