MORUS I. R.

Η ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΟΤΕΡΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗΣ
Στο βιβλίο αυτό, οι Peter J. Bowler και Ivan Rhys Morus εξερευνούν τόσο την ίδια την ιστορία της επιστήμης όσο και την επίδραση που άσκησε στη νεότερη σκέψη εν γένει, και καταγράφουν όλες τις μείζονες εξελίξεις που έλαβαν χώρα στο πεδίο της επιστημονικής σκέψης, από τις επαναστατικές ιδέες του 17ου αιώνα μέχρι τα ζητήματα που εγείρονται στις μέρες μας από τη θεωρία της εξέλιξης, τη γενετική, την πυρηνική φυσική και τη σύγχρονη κοσμολογία. Γραμμένη από δύο έμπειρους ιστορικούς της επιστήμης, η "Ιστορία της νεότερης επιστήμης" καλύπτει ένα ι...
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(H/B) NIKOLA TESLA AND THE ELECTRICAL FUTURE
Nikola Tesla is one of the most enigmatic, curious and controversial figures in the history of science. An electrical pioneer as influential in his own way as Thomas Edison, he embodied the aspirations and paradoxes of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. In an era that saw the spread of power networks and wireless telegraphy, the discovery of X-rays, and the birth of powered flight, Tesla made himself synonymous with the electrical future under construction but opinion was often divided as to whether h...
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(P/B) WHEN PHYSICS BECAME KING
As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific revolution, physics struggled at first to achieve legitimacy in the scientific community and culture at large. In fact, the term "physicist" did not appear in English until the 1830s. When Physics Became King traces the emergence of this revolutionary science, demonstrating how a discipline that barely existed in 1800 came to be regarded a century later as the ultimate key to unlocking nature's ...
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