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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? Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.
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Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks, John Heilbron
- Language
- Released
- 2015
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Physics : a short history from quintessence to quarks
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Heilbron
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 228
- ISBN10
- 0198746857
- ISBN13
- 9780198746850
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Science, Physics, History of Science
- Rating
- 3.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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? Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.