From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of PhysicsScience is about 6000 years old while physics emerged as a distinct branch some 2500 years ago. As scientists discovered virtually countless facts about the world during this great span of time, the manner in which they explained the underlying structure of that world underwent a philosophical evolution. From Clockwork to Crapshoot provides the perspective needed to understand contemporary developments in physics in relation to philosophical traditions as far back as ancient Greece. |
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... construction , and war . Seeds of it appeared during the Stone Age , in the invention of such hunt- ing implements as the bow and arrow . While the early hunters surely did not try to understand the flight of the arrow , the arrow's ...
... construction of a calendar , of course , is the surest sign of faith in the regularity of daily life . Along with such proto - scientific learning , Egyptian technology be- came increasingly sophisticated as well . The measurements of ...
... construction , the accumulated know - how served the purpose of making daily tasks easier and more reliable . Care- ful observers of the regularity of celestial bodies used their powers of prediction either for reassurance or for ...
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Contents
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Science in the Middle Ages | 41 |
The First Revolution | 67 |
Newtons Legacy | 100 |
New Physics | 121 |
Relativity | 154 |
The Quantum Revolution | 210 |
Fields Nuclei and Stars | 248 |
The Properties of Matter | 279 |
The Constituents of the Universe | 290 |
Epilogue | 308 |
Notes | 313 |
Sources and Further Reading | 316 |
Index | 322 |