An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the Worldis a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science and the impact this discovery had on human knowledge and development. Read more/5(). · To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg – review Aristotle is tedious, Descartes is overrated – a Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to Brand: HarperCollins Publishers.
With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. In this sense, it is a technique that was waiting for people to discover it. Thus one can talk about the discovery of. Weinberg is happy to award medals on the basis of congruence with modern scientific ideas, and to assess the contributions of the past according to Tech's positive impact on the economy, Gordon Brown on why we have to share vaccines with the rest of the world, Brazil's macho-man leader Jair. Weinberg begins distinguishing modern science from its premodern counterpart early. Such know-how would not appear until the scientific revolution, the focus of the second half of Weinberg's book. Wherever one stands on his claims about the distinctness of modern science, his summary of the.
An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the Worldis a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science and the impact this discovery had on human knowledge and development. Read more. The Discovery of Modern Science. by Steven Weinberg. Harper. pp. $ What does it mean to think like a scientist? How do you learn to search for natural laws that predict a wide range of. A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral.
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