The Story of Western Science Susan Wise Bauer

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The Story of Western Science by Susan Wise Bauer

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A guide to the best science writing, which tells the centuries-long story of our striving to understand the world.

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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory by Susan Wise Bauer

The Story of Science guides us to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos and ourselves. Whether referenced individually or read together as the narrative of Western scientific development, the book's twenty-eight succinct chapters lead readers from the first science texts by Hippocrates, Plato and Aristotle through twentieth-century classics in biology, physics and cosmology, including works by Einstein, Schroedinger and Dawkins. Each chapter recommends one or more classic books and provides an entertaining account of the discovery, a vivid sketch of the scientist-writer and a clear explanation of any technical issues. The Story of Science reveals science to be a human pursuit-an essential, often deeply personal, sometimes flawed, frequently brilliant way of understanding the world.

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...if her [Susan Wise Bauer's] mission was to make an often out-of-reach subject accessible and-while science arguably is always relevant-feel more relevant, because you've gained an appreciation for the motivation, challenges and significance behind it, as well as its joys and quirks and brilliance, she's done a great job. -- The Herald
...a masterly account of the great minds who have helped expand human knowledge, from the earliest philosophers onwards. -- Sky at Night

About Susan Wise Bauer

Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.

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Sku

CIN0393243265VG

ISBN 13

9780393243260

ISBN 10

0393243265

Title

The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory by Susan Wise Bauer

Author

Susan Wise Bauer

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

2015-06-16

Number of pages

336

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