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Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised 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 un...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Physics : a short history : from quintessence to quarks / J. L. Heilbron |
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Oxford [GB] :
Oxford university press
, cop. 2015 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (IX-228 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction, 1: Invention and Diversity in Greece and Rome. 2: Selection and Development in Islam. 3: Domestication in the West. 4: A Second Creation. 5: Classical Physics and its Cure. 6: From Old World to New. 7: By Way of Conclusion. References and Further Reading. Index.