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020			_a9780199684120
040			_cLCIC LIBRARY
082			_aREF.530.09 H36
100			_aJ. L. Heilbron _eAuthor
245		4	_aThe history of physics : _ba very short introduction /
260			_aOxford, United Kingdom : _bOxford University Press, _c2018.
300			_a xvi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
520			_a"How does the physics we know today-- a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry-- link back to its origins as a liberal art in ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it ; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light ; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the 'House of Wisdom' in 9th-century Baghdad, Europe's first universities, the courts of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the academies of the 18th century, and the increasingly specialized world of 20th and 21st century science. Highlighting the shifting relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and technology-- and the implications for humankind's self-understanding-- Heilbron explores the changing place and purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured it over the centuries."
650			_aPhysics History
650			_aSCIENCE History
650			_aSCIENCE Physics
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