Science in History
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Faber & Faber
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
11.07.2011
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
398
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/13,5/2,8 cm
Gewicht
540 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-571-27300-3
J. D. Bernals monumental work Science in History was the first full attempt to analyse the reciprocal relations of science and society throughout history from the perfection of the flint hand-axe to the hydrogen bomb. In this remarkable study he illustrates the impetus given to (and the limitations placed upon) discovery and invention by pastoral agricultural feudal capitalist and socialist systems and conversely the ways in which science has altered economic social and political beliefs and practices.
In this first volume Bernal discusses the nature and method of science before describing its emergence in the Stone Age its full formation by the Greeks and its continuing growth (probably influenced from China) under Christendom and Islam in the Middle Ages.
Andrew Brown Bernals biographer with a nice sense of paradox has said of him he was steeped in history in part because he was always thinking about the future. He goes on to say Science in History is an encyclopaedic yet individual and colourful account of the emergence of science from pre-historic times. There is detailed coverage of the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment the Industrial Age and the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. . . The writing flows and is devoid of the tortured idioms that mar so many academic histories of science. After reading it it is easy to agree with C. P. Snows orotund observation that Bernal was the last man to know science.
Faber Finds are reissuing the illustrated four volume edition first published by Penguin in 1969. The four volumes are: Volume 1: The Emergence of Science Volume 2: The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions Volume 3: The Natural Sciences in Our Time Volume 4: The Social Sciences: Conclusion.
This stupendous work . . . is a magnificent synoptic view of the rise of science and its impact on society which leaves the reader awe-struck by Professor Bernals encyclopaedic knowledge and historical sweep. Times Literary Supplement
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