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Language: English
Published by Icon Books, 2017
Series: Book 3 of 12 - Icon Science
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- Title
- Eureka! (Icon Science): The Birth of Science
- Author
- Gregory, Andrew
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 178578191X
- ISBN 13
- 9781785781919
- Series
- Book 3 of 12: Icon Science
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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