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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... Interest in the heavens served less practical purposes and may therefore perhaps be regarded as the proper precursor of “pure science,” but that interest seems always to have been closely associated with religion. Individual stars were ...
... Interest in the heavens served less practical purposes and may therefore perhaps be regarded as the proper precursor of " pure sci- ence , " but that interest seems always to have been closely associated with religion . Individual stars ...
... interest of the Sumerians in matters of trade . As a result of this preoccupation , they made important advances in problems connected with weights and measures , focusing their mathematical attention primarily on arith- metic , at ...
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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 |