From clockwork to crapshoot a history of physics
As scientists discovered facts about the world during the time when physics emerged as a distinct branch, the manner in which they explained the structure of that world underwent a philosophical evolution. This book provides the perspective aimed at understanding the developments in physics in relation to the traditions as back as ancient Greece.
eBook, English, 2007
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007
History
1 online resource (viii, 340 p. :) ill., map.
9780674023376, 0674023374
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