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On Understanding Science - An Historical Approach

English · Hardback

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The language, customs, and manners of scientists are frequently unintelligible to the rest of the population, and there is considerable danger that the ideas and forces that are moving mountains will be increasingly inaccessible tothose outside the laboratories. The peril of such a situation to a democracy, where understanding must be assumed to be fairly general, is probably as great in the realm of ideas as the physical danger of the instruments of destruction. Dr. Conant sets out to show how the gulf can be bridged. Instead of a series of assertions about science being ordered knowledge, or the classification of facts, he presents a historical view of a number of the great scientists, of what their generation knew of their subjects, of the problem they set out to examine, and of how they solved it. The reader is enabled to follow the scientific method at work, with all its limitations and wonders.


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Authors James B. Conant, James Bryant Conant
Publisher Yale University Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2008
 
EAN 9780300136555
ISBN 978-0-300-13655-5
No. of pages 164
Series Terry Lectures (Hardcover)
The Terry Lectures
The Terry Lectures Series
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

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