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Science and the Modern World - Softcover

Whitehead, Alfred North

 
9780684836393: Science and the Modern World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0684836394 ISBN 13: 9780684836393
Verlag: Free Press, 1997

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Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science.

Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the shool of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947.

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Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.

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Verlag
Free Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0684836394
ISBN 13 
9780684836393
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
228
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