The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century

The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century
ISBN-10
1903985072
ISBN-13
9781903985076
Category
Science
Pages
460
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Basic Books
Author
Gerard Piel

Description

When historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the 20th century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out above all others: more than any other era before it, the 20th century was an age of science. Not only were the practical details of daily life radically transformed by the application of scientific discoveries, but our very sense of who we are, how our mind works, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking as never before in human history.

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