Whitfield, Peter: History of Science
Whitfield, Peter: History of Science
Format: CD
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Artist: Whitfield, Peter
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 9789626349939
Genre: Books on Tape/Cd, Box Sets
This is the foundation of all: that we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what nature does, or may be made to do. Thus did Francis Bacon, early in the 17th century, outline the future of science and technology. This drive for knowledge and power has now given us a world dominated by science, and this audiobook tells the story of how we have arrived there. The achievements of the great scientific thinkers of the ages – Copernicus, Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein, Freud, Hubble and many more – are explained and woven together into an exciting story of intellectual discovery, but a story in which a sense of the mystery of the universe is always present. Find out more about The History of Science below.
Tracks:
1.1 Part 1: The Ancient and Medieval World
1.2 Science in Ancient Civilisations
1.3 The Beginning of Recorded Science
1.4 The Greek Genius
1.5 Strange As Some of These Speculations Now Appear
1.6 Plato and Aristotle
1.7 The Second Giant of Greek Thought, Aristotle
1.8 Hellenistic Science - Medicine
1.9 Ptolemy
1.10 Roman Science
1.11 The Decline of Classical Learning
1.12 Islamic Science
1.13 One of the Most Impressive Applications of Geometry
1.14 Science in Medieval Christendom
1.15 Cause Was at the Heart of This Philosophy
2.1 Part 2: The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
2.2 The Practical Sciences
2.3 The Copernican Revolution
2.4 Looking First at the Movements of Mercury and Venus
2.5 The Scientific Revolution
2.6 Tycho Was a Danish Nobleman Who Used
2.7 At the Heart of All Keplers Study Lay the Problem
2.8 The Newtonian Synthesis
2.9 Other Aspects of the Scientific Revolution
2.10 As with Astronomy, Biology Was Revolutionised
2.11 Traditions of Science Outside Europe
2.12 If There Is One Characteristic of Non-Western
3.1 Part 3: The 19th Century - the Machine Age
3.2 The Dawn of Machine Power
3.3 But Another and More Practical Source of Power
3.4 Heat and Energy: Thermodynamics and Electricity
3.5 But Helmholtz Was Also a Biologist
3.6 Chemistry
3.7 However, Some Chemists Were Still Not Convinced
3.8 Astronomy
3.9 The Life Sciences: Geology and Palaeontology
3.10 The Darwinian Revolution
3.11 Human Biology
3.12 Medicine
3.13 Anthropology: The Science of Man
3.14 Conclusion: The 19th Century Achievement in Science
4.1 Part 4: The 20th Century - the New Labyrinth
4.2 The Mystery of the Atom
4.3 The Crucial Breakthrough in This Field
4.4 Why Was This Tiny Number So Important?
4.5 In One Sense the Core Subject-Matter of Chemistry
4.6 Einstein
4.7 From These Apparently Rarefied Ideas
4.8 The Revolution in Cosmology
4.9 Hubble Continued His Investigations
4.10 The Biological Sciences: Genetics
4.11 Population Geneticists of the 1920S
4.12 The Science of the Mind
4.13 Retrospect: Man and Nature
