Paperback • 2016 • English • 1. edition

To explain the world

Name: To explain the world
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ISBN: 9780141980874

By Steven Weinberg

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In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand. Yet eventually, through the struggle to solv...Show more

Philosophy of science

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9780141980874

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Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2016

Language

English

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To explain the world

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Paperback

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