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From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Peat, F. David

 
9780309076418: From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0309076412 ISBN 13: 9780309076418
Verlag: Joseph Henry Pr, 2002

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Early Theorists believed that science promised certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science consistently produced knowledge. Then disturbing discoveries made by twentieth-century scientists revealed that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understanding of the world is ultimately beyond our grasp.
In this book, physicist F. David Peat examines the basic philosophic certainty that characterized the thinking of humankind through the nineteenth century and contrasts it with the startling fall of certainty in the twentieth. Indeed, the nineteenth century was marked by a boundless optimism and confidence in the power of progress and technology. Our ebullience was so great, our belief in science so firm, that in 1900 the President of Britain's Royal Society proclaimed that everything of importance had already been discovered by science.
But it was not long before the seeds of a scientific revolution began to take root.

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Verlag
Joseph Henry Pr
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0309076412
ISBN 13 
9780309076418
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Anzahl der Seiten
230
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