Students Guide to Natural Science by Stephen M Barr

Students Guide to Natural Science by Stephen M Barr

Physicist Stephen M. Barr's lucid Student's Guide to Natural Science aims to give students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr begins with the contributions of the ancient Greeks, in particular the two great ideas that reality can be understood by the systematic use of reason and that phenomena have natural explanations. He goes on to discuss, among other things, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role played by religion in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major breakthroughs of modern physics, including how many newer revolutionary theories are in fact related to much older ones. Throughout this thoughtful guide, Barr draws his readers' attention to the larger themes and trends of scientific history, including the increasing unification and mathematization of our view of the physical world that has resulted in the laws of nature appearing more and more as forming a single harmonious mathematical edifice.

Stephen M. Barr grew up in Alameda, California, served in the Navy, and worked as a civil engineer/surveyor for the State of California (DOT) until his retirement in 1998. The author and his wife, Zoe, live in an old farmhouse they rebuilt in Windsor, California.

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ISBN 13	9781932236927
ISBN 10	1932236929
Title	Students Guide to Natural Science
Author	Stephen M Barr
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Regnery Publishing Inc
Year published	2006-07-30
Number of pages	80
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