An edition of Glimpses of reality
(2003)
Glimpses of reality
episodes in the history of science
by Byron Emerson Wall
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Glimpses of reality: episodes in the history of science
2003, Wall & Emerson
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Table of Contents
Numbers and arithmetic
First thoughts about nature
Pythagoras and the magic of numbers
Plato and the reality of ideas
The task of the philosopher
Aristotle and the world of experience
Axioms and proofs
Saving the heavens
Copernicus chooses formal elegance over common sense
Kepler's celestial harmony
Galileo, the anti-anti-Copernican
Galileo, founder of physics
The res extensa of Descartes
Let Newton be!
The mathematical principles of natural philosophy
Energy, a new form of being
Electromagnetism and the Æther
Invariance and relativity trade places
Science isn't so sure
The universe will go on forever - or it won't
The earth and its inhabitants classified
Evolution by natural selection
Finding the units of life
DNA, the key to the mystery.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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