Three scientific revolutions : how they transformed our conceptions of reality / Richard H. Schlagel.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schlagel, Richard H., 1925-
Language:English
Published: Amherst, New York : Humanity Books, 2015.
Subjects:
Science > History.
Science > Greece > History.
Science > History > 20th century.
Science > Philosophy.
History.
Science.
Greece.
1900 - 1999
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:292 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The first transition owing to the natural philosophic inquiries during the Greek Hellenic and Hellenistic period
  • The second transition owing to the creation of modern classical science
  • The culminating achievement of Newton
  • The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries advances including inquiries in magnetism and electricity
  • The origins of chemistry and modern atomism
  • Transition to the third reality in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Construction of the atom in the twentieth century
  • The impending fourth transition along with the future prospects of science.