A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achie
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English Pages xxii, 646 pages: illustrations; 20 cm Year 2004
Table of contents :
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
1. Out of the dark ages --
Renaissance men
Last mystics
First scientists --
2. Founding fathers --
Science finds its feet
Newtonian revolution
Expanding horizons --
3. Enlightenment --
Enlightened science I : chemistry catches up
Enlightened science II : progress on all fronts --
4. Big picture --
Darwinian revolution
Atoms and molecules
Let there be light
Last hurrah! of classical science --
5. Modern times --
Inner space
Realm of life
Outer space --
Coda : Pleasure of finding things out.