Science : a four thousand year history
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Science : a four thousand year history
Oxford University Press, 2009
1st ed
大学図書館所蔵 全7件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Bibliography: p. [375]-390
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made mistakes, and who trampled down their rivals in their quest for success. Fara sweeps through the centuries, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have made science the powerful global phenomenon that it is today. She also ranges internationally, illustrating the importance of scientific projects based around the world, from China to the Islamic empire, as well as the more familiar tale of science in Europe, from Copernicus to Charles Darwin and beyond.Above all, this four thousand year history challenges scientific supremacy, arguing controversially that science is successful not because it is always right - but because people have said that it is right.
目次
- Introduction
- PART I: ORIGINS
- 1. Sevens
- 2. Babylon
- 3. Heroes
- 4. Cosmos
- 5. Life
- 6. Matter
- 7. Technology
- PART II: INTERACTIONS
- 8. Eurocentrism
- 9. China
- 10. Islam
- 11. Scholarship
- 12. Europe
- 13. Aristotle
- 14. Alchemy
- PART III: EXPERIMENTS
- 15. Exploration
- 16. Magic
- 17. Astronomy
- 18. Bodies
- 19. Machines
- 20. Instruments
- 21. Gravity
- PART IV: INSTITUTIONS
- 22. Societies
- 23. Systems
- 24. Careers
- 25. Industries
- 26. Revolutions
- 27. Rationality
- 28. Disciplines
- PART V: LAWS
- 29. Progress
- 30. Globalization
- 31. Objectivity
- 32. God
- 33. Evolution
- 34. Power
- 35. Time
- PART VI: INVISIBLES
- 36. Life
- 37. Disease
- 38. Rays
- 39. Particles
- 40. Genes
- 41. Chemicals
- 42. Uncertainties
- PART VII
- 43. Warfare
- 44. Heredity
- 45. Cosmology
- 46. Information
- 47. Rivalry
- 48. Environment
- 49. Futures
- Postscript
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