Robert P Crease
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Who decides? And how should everyday citizens interact with the scientific process-"the workshop"? Science historian Robert P. Crease answers these questions by introducing us to ten of the world's greatest thinkers and explaining how they shaped scientific progress.At a time when the Catholic Church assumed total authority, Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes were the first to articulate the idea of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace.
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