Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind&#...

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Main Author: Heilbron, John L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford OUP Oxford 2015
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Summary:How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 pages)
ISBN:9780191063725
9780198746850

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