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In the Light of Science
Demetris Nicolaides
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Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 336.
The birth of science in ancient Greece had a historical impact that is still being felt today. Physicist Demetris Nicolaides examines the epochal shift in thinking that led pre-Socratic philosophers of the sixth and fifth centuries BCE to abandon the prevailing mythologies of the age and, for the first time, to analyze the natural world in terms of impersonal, rationally understood principles. He argues not only that their conceptual breakthroughs anticipated much of later science but that scientists of the twenty-first century are still grappling with the fundamental problems raised twenty-five hundred years ago. Looking at the vast sweep ... Read more
The birth of science in ancient Greece had a historical impact that is still being felt today. Physicist Demetris Nicolaides examines the epochal shift in thinking that led pre-Socratic philosophers of the sixth and fifth centuries BCE to abandon the prevailing mythologies of the age and, for the first time, to analyze the natural world in terms of impersonal, rationally understood principles. He argues not only that their conceptual breakthroughs anticipated much of later science but that scientists of the twenty-first century are still grappling with the fundamental problems raised twenty-five hundred years ago. Looking at the vast sweep ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Prometheus Books United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781615922253
SKU
V9781615922253
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About Demetris Nicolaides
Demetris Nicolaides, PhD, is an award-winning professor of physics at Bloomfield College. He completed his physics-math Bachelor and first Master in just three and a half years. He has authored many scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented his research at conferences nationally. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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