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To explain the world : the discovery of modern science

by Steven Weinberg

This study explores the rise of modern science and its impact on human understanding, tracing scientific discovery from ancient Greece to the Scientific Revolution. It examines how the modern scientific method emerged through centuries of struggle, collaboration and debate.

Accession 9159 ISBN 9780241196625 Publisher Allen Lane
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Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, [Weinberg] 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 solve such mysteries as the backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of tides, the modern discipline of science emerged.--publisher's blurb.

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