Measure for Measure by Thomas Levenson
In Measure for Measure, Thomas Levenson offers a compelling account of how scientific thinking development from the day 2,500 years ago when Pythagoras discovered the musical scale to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of instruments scientific and musical: the organ, the microscope, the still, the scales, Stradivari's miraculous violins and cellos, computers, and synthesizers. What emerges is a unique portrait of science itself as an instrument, our single most powerful way of understanding the world. Yet perhaps the most important invention of modern science has been the power to countenance its own limitations, to find the point beyond which science can explain no more, to rediscover that science, like music, is an art.Thomas Levenson is an MIT science writing professor. He's written several novels, including The Search for Vulcan, Einstein in Berlin, and Newton and the Counterfeiter: The World's Greatest Scientist's Unknown Detective Career. He has also received multiple accolades for ten feature-length documentaries (including a two-hour Nova episode on Einstein).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684804347 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684804344 |
| Title | Measure for Measure |
| Author | Thomas Levenson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1995-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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