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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... Fields , Nuclei , and Stars 248 12 The Properties of Matter 13 The Constituents of the Universe 279 290 Epilogue 308 Notes 313 Sources and Further Reading Index 322 316 Prologue For well over six thousand years people have been.
... fields . What is more , Euclid's particular choice of geometric postulates has shaped the modern development of this field of mathematics , and of physics as well . One postulate , in particular , continued to stick in the craw of ev ...
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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 |