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Eureka!: The Birth of Science

By Andrew Gregory

Book information

Publisher
Icon Books
Year
2017
ISBN
178578191X, 9781785781919
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1770003 bytes)
Series
Icon Science
Edition
Reprint
Pages
160\0
Time added
2017-02-08 09:05:51
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Description

Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a "scientific" attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought.Eureka! shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature.Andrew Gregory, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation, and our desire for a rational, legitimating system of the world.

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