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找到了:科学的诞生(科普英语注释读物)

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作者:ANDREW GREGORY

页数:224

出版社:重庆大学出版社

出版日期:2002

ISBN:9787562427278

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内容简介

人类不断地在设法用科学的态度来对待自然,这是人类思想中的奇迹。这种科学态度是在何时、何地开始的?

《找到了!科学的诞生》向我们展示,科学是从古希腊开始的。在摆脱了学识和宗教信条的束缚后,古希腊人不再用神话和任性的神来解释世界,来区别自然与超自然;正是古希腊人最早发现了自然。随着新理论的提出和证实,知识变得越来越复杂。最后,人们认识到科学不同于技术。

本书作者对西方文明的起源和人类追求理性宇宙体系的愿望进行了有趣的探索,阐述了科学的起源。

目录

AcknowledgementsDedicationThe Creation of Science1. The Early Greeks and their Predecessors Science Must Begin with Myths Two Cultures Cosmos : an Elegant Universe Myths and Theories Natural Phenomena2. The First Scientific Theories The Fathers of Medicine Eleatics and Atomists :Achilles and the Tortoise The Pythagoreans:the Secret Magic of Numbers Come the Time of Proof Euclid Science and Technology Great Achievement Assured3. Men of the World Plato Teleology:the Best of all Possible Worlds Atomism : Let us Trace the Pattern No Slight or Trivial Influence Aristotle: The Master of Those who Know The Terrestrial Realm The Heavens Speculations Upon Matter Aristotle and Qualities Explanations Direction of Explanation : Clockwork Lives4. Heavenly Thoughts Eudoxus : Thinking Regressively Ptolemaic Astronomy The Four Seasons Revolutionary Thinking Modelling the Heavens5. The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life: Consider your Origins6. Medicine and the Life Sciences Galen Ancient Thought on Blood Aristotle and Biology: Biology’s Beginnings Embryology and Species Taxonomy7. Later Greek Science: After Aristotle Epicurus and Epicureanism : on the Nature of Things Stoics:the Active and the Passive ……
The Creation of ScienceAppendices

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