The Evolution of Modern Science
Publisher: Bookboon
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740304800
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: To the Student; title: Before the Greeks (Pre-history–600 BCE); title: Ancient Greek Science (600 BCE–300 CE); title: Greek Theories; title: Greek Philosophy and Science; title: A Period of Stagnancy – The Dark Ages (300–1400); title: The Dark Ages; title: The Scholastic Synthesis; title: Classical Physics and Astronomy (1400–1600); title: A New Cosmology; title: The Language of Nature; title: Experimental Science and Knowledge: The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment (1500–1700); title: The Scientific Revolution; title: A Mechanistic World; title: The Scientific Method; title: Space and Time; title: Newtonianism and The Scientific Revolution; title: The Enlightenment and the Idea of Progress; title: Preface to the Industrial Age; title: Classical Chemistry (1700–1900); title: The Foundations of Modern Chemistry; title: Chemistry Becomes a Science; title: Organic (living) Chemistry; title: Classical Electricity, Magnetism and Light (1700–1900); title: Electrical Phenomena; title: Volta’s Cell Applied to Chemistry; title: Electricity, Magnetism and Light; title: Electrical Technology; title: Thermodynamics (1700–1900); title: The Rise of Steam Technology; title: Heat and Energy – the First Law of Thermodynamics; title: Entropy – The Second Law of Thermodynamics; title: Entropy and Civilization; title: Natural History – Taxonomy and Geology (1700–1800); title: Foundations of Natural History; title: Natural History and Classical Geology; title: Classical Biology (1800–1900); title: Evolution; title: Darwinism; title: Darwinism in America; title: Origin of the Social Sciences (1750–1900); title: Economics; title: Sociology; title: Political Science; title: Psychology; title: Social Science and Statistics; title: Social Darwinism; title: Atomic and Nuclear Era (1900–1950); title: Pre-1900 American Science; title: Theories of the Aether; title: X-Rays and Radioactivity; title: Atomic Structure; title: Nuclear Fusion and Fission; title: Special Relativity; title: Quantum Mechanics; title: Science and the U.S. Government (1900– ); title: The Atomic Bomb; title: Sputnik and the Space Rac; title: A New Understanding of Life (1700– ); title: The Cell; title: Genetics; title: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); title: Modern Cosmology – the Origin of the Universe (1900– ); title: Galaxies and Cepheids; title: General Relativity and Black Holes; title: The Redshift and the Big Bang; title: The Chemical Bond (1900– ); title: The Computer Revolution (1900– ); title: Counting, Numbers, and Calculation; title: Mathematics and Digital Computers; title: Boolean Algebra; title: Systems of Mathematics; title: Computing Machines; title: The Conservation Movement and Ecology (1900– ); title: National Parks; title: Preservationists vs. Wise-Use Advocates; title: Food Chains and Ecology; title: Modern Geology (1900– ); title: The Age of the Earth; title: Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics; title: Afterword; title: Appendices; title: Appendix 1 – Arithmetic and Geometry; title: Appendix 2 – Formal Logic; title: Appendix 3 – Algebra; title: Appendix 4 – Analytical Geometry; title: Appendix 5 – Calculus; title: Appendix 6 – Statistics; title: Appendix 7 – Boolean Algebra and Set Theory; title: Appendix 8 – The Ancients Revisited – Titus Lucretius Carus; title: Bibliography; title: Endnotes