Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks 1st Edition by J. L. Heilbron 9780198746850,0198746857

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198746857
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198746850
• Author: Heilbron

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? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind’s place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels?

J. L. Heilbron’s fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the ‘House of Wisdom’ in 9th-century Baghdad; Europe’s first universities; the courts of the Renaissance; the Scientific Revolution and the academies of the 18th century; the increasingly specialised world of 20th and 21st century science.

Highlighting the shifting relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and technology — and the implications for humankind’s self-understanding — Heilbron explores the changing place and purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured it over the centuries.

Table of contents:

1. Invention in Antiquity
Physica
Applications
Dumbing down
2. Selection in Islam
Falsafa
Mixed mathematics
Departures
3. Domestication in Europe
At the interface
Alma mater
Fresh imports
4. A Second Creation
Revolution or integration?
The invention of physics
Institutional frameworks
Physics and enlightenment
5. Classical Physics and its Cure
Standard models
Physicists as librarians
Woes and wonders in 1900
The profession
6. From Old World to New
Legacies of World War I
The legacy enriched
Other interwar business
Americanization
7. The Quintessential
References
Further Reading

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