Experimental Astronomy (Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 18, Band 18) Jean-Claude Pecker

Pecker, Jean-Claude und Robert S. Kandel:

ISBN 10: 9027701571 / ISBN 13: 9789027701572

Published by Springer, 1970

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105 p. Good condition. Reading pages are clean and without marks. Retired library exemplar, with the usual marking. Book shows slight signs of storage and usage. Corner slightly bumped. No dust jacket. Still good copy. 9789027701572 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Experimental Astronomy (Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 18, Band 18) Jean-Claude Pecker
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027701571
• ISBN 13: 9789027701572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Astronomie & Astrologie

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Synopsis

Socrates knew all that was known by his contemporaries. But already in the Middle Ages it was becoming difficult for a single man to have a truly encyclopedic view of all human knowledge. It is true that Pico della Mirandola, Pius II, Leonardo da Vinci, and several other great minds were thoroughly in possession of considerable know­ ledge, and knew all that one could know, except no doubt for some techniques. The encyclopedists of the 18th century had to be content with an admirable survey: they could not go into details, and their work is a collective one, the specialized science of each collaborator compensating for the insufficiencies of the others. We know very well that our science of today is a science of specialists. Not only is it impossible for anyone person to assimilate the totality of human knowledge, it is impossible even to know ones own discipline perfectly thoroughly. Each year the presses of science pro­ duce a frightening quantity of printed paper. Even in very limited fields, new journals are created every day, devoted to extremely specialized, often very narrowly defined subjects. It is indeed evident that in a field whose scope extends well beyond astronomical or astrophysical research, it is materially impossible to be informed of everything, even with the richest of libraries at hand.