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"Nature has secrets, and it is the desire to uncover them that motivates the scientific quest. But what makes these "secrets" secret? Is it that they are beyond human ken? That they concern divine matters? And if they are accessible to human seeking, why do they seem so carefully hidden? Such questions are at the heart of Peter Pesic's effort to uncover the meaning of modern science.
Pesic's quest for the roots of science begins with three key Renaissance figures: William Gilbert, a physician who began the scientific study of magnetism; Francois Viete, a French codebreaker who played a crucial role in the foundation of symbolic mathematics; and Francis Bacon, a visionary who anticipated the shape of modern science. Pesic then describes the encounters of three modern masters - Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein - with the depths of nature.Throughout, Pesic reads scientific works as works of literature, attending to nuance and tone as much as to surface meaning.
He seeks the living center of human concern as it emerges in the ongoing search for nature's secrets."--BOOK JACKET.
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