The Frontiers of Science

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The Frontiers of Science

Lewin, Benjamin

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Royal Society of Chemistry（2025/12発売）
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ポイント 81pt

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 714 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781837679676

Full Description

Science dominates modern intellectual life, yet few fully appreciate the path by which science evolved into such a driving cultural force. The Frontiers of Science traces the centuries-long development of science from an endeavour intertwined with other disciplines into an independent field with its own procedures and principles.

Spanning key discoveries from 500 BCE to the modern day, including all areas from astronomy, physics, biology, neuroscience, computing and AI, it reveals how science advances, not in a straight line, but through a zigzag of progress and dead ends.

Along the way, The Frontiers of Science explores pivotal junctures where pioneering thinkers took wrong turns, faced resistance from contemporary beliefs, and navigated challenging notions of truth. It analyzes how novel scientific ideas struggled to gain acceptance among scientists and in society until evidence and corrections hammered out their validity.

The book considers how AI may change the nature of science, assesses the limits of science today, and discusses the dangers that pseudoscience and the rejection of science pose for society.

Instead of viewing science through a societal lens, this book uniquely examines breakthroughs from the scientist's perspective. It ultimately illuminates why the self-scrutinizing, self-correcting nature of science underpins its success in understanding the natural realm.

For readers intrigued by science's influence on modern times, this is an unparalleled guide to how it assumed a transformative role through a turbulent, obstacle-strewn evolution.

Prequel: Aristotle's Doctrines: 600-300 BC

Saint Augustine's Legacy: 500-1300

Science in the East: 750-1458 CE

Copernicus' Revolution: 1543-1609

Galileo's Movement: 1610-1659

Newton's Laws: 1659-1687

Lavoisier's Chemistry: 1750-1870

Industrial Revolution: 1760-1840

Maxwell's Demon: 1820-1890

Popper's Legacy: What is Science?

Kuhn's Paradigms: Changing Science

Darwin's Evolution: 1859-1980

Rutherford's Atom: 1897-1945

Bohr's Quantum: 1926-

Heisenberg's Uncertainties: 1927-

Einstein's Universe: 1905-

Lemaître's Big Bang: 1931-

Science and War

Crick's Double Helix: 1953-

Watson's Genomes: 1990-

Science and Medicine

Cajal's Neuron Doctrine: 1898-

Turing's Intelligence: Now

Communication in Science

Rabbit Holes in Science

Science and Society

Epilogue: Science and Modernity