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020 $a0195116992 (cloth : alk. paper)
050 00 $aQ125$b.S5425 1998
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100 1 $aSilver, Brian L.
245 14 $aThe ascent of science /$cBrian L. Silver.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1998.
300 $axviii, 534 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
500 $a"A Solomon Press book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [513]-518) and index.
505 0 $aNewton gets it completely wrong -- I believe -- Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong -- The second law -- Predicting catastrophe -- From Newton to De Sade: the partial triumph of reason -- From Rousseau to Blake : the revolt against reason -- Lodestone, amber, and lightning -- Belief and action -- The demise of alchemy -- The nineteenth century -- The material trinity : the atom -- The stuff of existence -- Scipio's dream -- Making waves -- The ubiquity of motion -- Energy -- Entropy : intimations of mortality -- Chaos -- The slow birth of biology -- In a monastery garden -- Evolution -- The descent of man -- The gene machine -- The lords of nature? -- Life : the molecular battle -- The origin of life? : take your choice -- The inexplicable quantum -- New ways of thinking -- The land of paradox -- The elementary particles -- Relativity -- Cosmology -- The cosmos and peeping Tom -- The impossibility of creation -- The tree of death -- "What the devil does it all mean?" -- The future.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aThought and thinking$xHistory.
650 0 $aPhilosophy$xHistory.
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