To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Audiobook)

from nbmars

The author is a Nobel laureate physicist who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a very cogent explicator of difficult scientific concepts. In this book, he tackles the history of the modern scientific method of thinking from the ancient Greeks through the scientific revoluti...

from themulhern

There was a lot about Greek "scientists", who are not nearly as quotable as the scientists in "The Invention of Science". But there is also an enormous appendix of technical notes which give a mathematical presentation of many of problems discussed in the main part of the book. These are fun if y...

from DLMorrese

This book is not for everyone, but if you want details on the dizzying array of spheres, circles, epicycles and whatnot that people have used over the last 2,500 years or so to to try to explain celestial motion, this book has them--often in excruciatingly painful detail. It often reads like an i...

from lostinalibrary

Confession time: I studied history at university and one of the first thing I learned - you can't judge the past by the present for a whole lot of reasons not least of which is that they didn't have the same access as us to, well, history. Which brings me to the recent book by Nobel Prize winning...

from nbmars

The author is a Nobel laureate physicist who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a very cogent explicator of difficult scientific concepts. In this book, he tackles the history of the modern scientific method of thinking from the ancient Greeks through the scientific revoluti...