This book is about the history of science – astronomy, physics, chemistry, life sciences and earth sciences. It is not a book about the lives of the scientists, though brief biographical... More > details are given for important figures. It aims to get to the bottom of the great discoveries of the modern era. The book is about 70,000 words long – about a quarter of the size of other books on the same subject – but it contains more actual science than most of the others.
No one doubts that there are some difficult ideas in science – for example the general theory of relativity, the laws of thermodynamics or quantum mechanics. Yet these can be explained in quite simple terms. What is more, science can be fun!
No special knowledge beyond basic school science is required to read this book.
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The Science of History And The Hope of Mankind.
"THE present work is based on the Lectures on the Science of History which I delivered to my classes in History at the Bengal National College,... More > Calcutta. My object was to survey, not historically but according to the philosophic-comparative method, the phenomena of civilization and point out the laws or generalizations that may be deduced out of the facts of universal history.< Less
The book aligns chronologically the facts that originated some of the most important branches of science like astronomy, botany, bacteriology, thermodynamics, chemistry and other interesting issues.... More > An initial chapter briefly describes the evolution of the Universe according to the most recent theories. A special chapter related to the rising of the idea of sustainable development is added at the end, showing the institutional efforts aimed to overcome the current non-sustainable practices in the use of natural resources, which could lead the planet to the disaster of overconsumption and global warming. The text has 19 graphics with the timeline of the evolution of empirical sciences and other issues and 50 illustrations and photos in full color.< Less
The book describes the main facts about the scientific development since the beginning of the human civilization until the final years of the XX century. It aligns chronologically the facts that... More > originated some of the most important branches of science like astronomy, botany, bacteriology, thermodynamics, chemistry and other interesting issues. An initial chapter briefly describes the evolution of the Universe according to the most recent theories, just to put us all in the context of everything as some of the modern authors are used to call. At the end of the book a special chapter related to the rising of the idea of sustainable development is added. Actually it shows the institutional efforts aimed to change conservative practices, which could lead the planet to the disaster of overconsumption and mismanagement of natural resources. The text has 18 graphics with the timeline of the evolution of empirical sciences and other issues and 51 illustrations and photos in full color< Less
This book is about the history of the conflict between religion and science, covering in-depth investigation of the origin of science, religion and its relations to science, various conflicts... More > respecting the doctrine of the unity of God, the nature of the soul, the nature of the world, the age of the earth, the criterion of truth, the government of the universe, and the crisis among religion, faith, civilization and science.< Less
This book is about the history of the conflict between religion and science, covering in-depth investigation of the origin of science, religion and its relations to science, various conflicts... More > respecting the doctrine of the unity of God, the nature of the soul, the nature of the world, the age of the earth, the criterion of truth, the government of the universe, and the crisis among religion, faith, civilization and science.< Less
In this important and controversial work, historian, diplomat, and the first president of Cornell University Andrew White exhaustively documents the battle between science and religion in such... More > matters as creation vs. evolution, the geocentric vs. the heliocentric, and the "fall of man" vs. A classic work on the history of science and freedom of thought in Christian Europe. Originally written in 1886, this is a comprehensive account of clashes between theological and scientific claims about how nature works. White systematically chronicles the persecution that all the major areas of scientific inquiry had to endure from theologans before they were accepted : geology, mechanics, medicine, meteorology, biology, etc..< Less
A treatice on the paradox existing between Science and Religion.
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the... More > expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.
No one has hitherto treated the subject from this point of view. Yet from this point it presents itself to us as a living issue - in fact, as the most important of all living issues.< Less
