To Explain the World : The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg (2015)

ISBN: 978-0-06-234666-7 "To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science" by Steven Weinberg, is an edition published by HarperCollins in 2015. The book explores the philosophy of science and the history of scientific discovery without mentioning the item's condition. It is a modernist literary movement that contains 432 pages and is written in English. A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world—they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.