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BL
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623638
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| Main Entry
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Silver, Brian L.
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| Title & Author
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The ascent of science /\ Brian L. Silver.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1998.
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xviii, 534 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195116992 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780195116991 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Notes
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"A Solomon Press book."
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-518) and index.
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| Contents
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Newton 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.
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| Abstract
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Provides an overview of Western science from the Renaissance to the present.
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| Subject
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Science-- History.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Thought and thinking-- History.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48/3
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| LC Classification
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Q125.S5425 1998
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