Nature's Imagination by John Cornwell

Nature's Imagination by John Cornwell

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In the later 20th century, many discoveries and hypotheses in both biological and cosmological systems have forced a re-evaluation of the scientist's traditional mind set. Eminent scientists come together in this volume to examine and discuss this issue, and to give illuminating examples.

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Nature's Imagination by John Cornwell

Scientific reductionism, often defined as a method of understanding the whole by examining the parts, has had some spectacular success since the early 19th century, and is deemed to impose a deterministic non-anthropocentric immutable nature on the Universe. In the later 20th century, many discoveries and hypotheses in both biological and cosmological systems have forced a re-evaluation of the scientist's traditional mind set. Eminent scientists come together in this volume to examine and discuss these issues, and to give illuminating examples.
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ISBN 13 9780198517757
ISBN 10 0198517750
Title Nature's Imagination
Author John Cornwell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1995-03-01
Number of pages 224
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