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基本説明
This classic and comprehensive history of physics, written by the Hungarian scientist and engineer Károly Simonyi, has been translated and updated.
Full Description
While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture, "The Two Cultures." In A Cultural History of Physics, Hungarian scientist and educator Karoly Simonyi succeeds in bridging this chasm by describing the experimental methods and theoretical interpretations that created scientific knowledge, from ancient times to the present day, within the cultural environment in which it was formed. Unlike any other work of its kind, Simonyi's seminal opus explores the interplay of science and the humanities to convey the wonder and excitement of scientific development throughout the ages.These pages contain an abundance of excerpts from original resources, a wide array of clear and straightforward explanations, and an astonishing wealth of insight, revealing the historical progress of science and inviting readers into a dialogue with the great scientific minds that shaped our current understanding of physics. Beautifully illustrated, accurate in its scientific content and broad in its historical and cultural perspective, this book will be a valuable reference for scholars and an inspiration to aspiring scientists and humanists who believe that science is an integral part of our culture.
Contents
Introduction The History of Physics and Its Relevance to Our Lives Today Assessment and Division into Epochs Elements of the Philosophy of Science The Dynamism of History The Classical Heritage The Greek Inheritance The Harmonious, Beautiful Order Matter and Motion: The Aristotelian Synthesis The Greatest Achievements of the Ancient Sciences The Twilight of Hellenism The Stewards of the Heritage The Thousand-Year Balance Sheet The Salvage of Ancient Knowledge The Indian and Arab Worlds The West Awakens Medieval Natural Philosophy The Renaissance and Physics Demolition and the Construction of a New Foundation The World in 1600 Numerology and Reality Galileo and Those Who Stood in His Shadow The New Philosophy: Doubt Becomes Method Light, Vacuum, and Matter through the Middle of the Seventeenth Century After Descartes and before Newton: Huygens Newton and the Principia: The Newtonian Worldview The Completion of Classical Physics Starting Capital for the Eighteenth Century Worthy Successors: d'Alembert, Euler, and Lagrange The Century of Light From Effluvium to the Electromagnetic Field Heat and Energy The Structure of Matter and Electricity: The Classical Atom The Physics of the Twentieth Century "Clouds on the Horizon of Nineteenth-Century Physics" The Theory of Relativity Quantum Theory Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Energy Law and Symmetry Mankind and the Universe
