Glimpses of reality
Subtitle: episodes in the history of science
By: Byron Wall.
Publisher: Wall & Emerson
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Science -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Numbers and arithmetic; title: First thoughts about nature; title: Pythagoras and the magic of numbers; title: Plato and the reality of ideas; title: The task of the philosopher; title: Aristotle and the world of experience; title: Axioms and proofs; title: Saving the heavens; title: Copernicus chooses formal elegance over common sense; title: Kepler's celestial harmony; title: Galileo, the anti-anti-Copernican; title: Galileo, founder of physics; title: The res extensa of Descartes; title: Let Newton be!; title: The mathematical principles of natural philosophy; title: Energy, a new form of being; title: Electromagnetism and the Æther; title: Invariance and relativity trade places; title: Science isn't so sure; title: The universe will go on forever - or it won't; title: The earth and its inhabitants classified; title: Evolution by natural selection; title: Finding the units of life; title: DNA, the key to the mystery.