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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... light travels with a finite velocity , a speculation not empirically confirmed until more than two thousand years later ( not long after Rene Des- cartes had declared all of his own philosophy null and void unless light traveled with ...
... light- ness of his body in his bath and suddenly realizing why this was so , he ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting Eureka . The principle leads to an easy method of detecting when an object ( such as a king's crown ) is ...
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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 |