How Humankind Created Science From Early Astronomy to Our Modern Scientific Worldview
The development of science has been an ideological struggle that lasted over three millennia. At and after the times of the Babylonian Empire, however, the pace of scientific evolution was painfully slow. This situation changed after Copernicus kick-started the Scientific Revolution with his helioce...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Our Universe
- Ancient Wisdom and Natural Philosophers
- The Heyday of Greek Astronomy
- The Tumultuous Astronomical Revolution
- The Well-Ordered Newtonian Mechanics
- Special Relativity: Fusing Space and Time
- General Relativity: Describing A Curved Spacetime
- The Course of Scientific Development: Evolution of Thought Across a Millennium
- Further Reading