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An Introduction to the History of Science

Gelesen von Steven Seitel

(4,833 Sterne; 9 Bewertungen)

A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space (Babylonia, Egypt) to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine (Langley) and the discovery of radioactivity (Curie). - Summary by Steven Seitel (8 hr 18 min)

Chapters

00 Preface

5:45

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01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia

24:27

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02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle

26:58

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03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius

22:27

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04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs

24:28

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05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon

27:49

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06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes

23:46

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07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle

23:03

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08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society

26:40

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09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin

26:13

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10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith

23:00

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11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel

22:23

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12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule

26:12

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13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy

25:29

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14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune

22:41

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15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle

27:49

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16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister

31:51

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17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane

22:54

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18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances

21:04

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19 The Scientific Imagination

20:45

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20 Science and Democratic Culture

22:32

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Bewertungen

accessible and interesting

(4,5 Sterne)

also suberb narrator. worth a future, second reading.