圖書標籤: 科學史 科學 科普 曆史 傳記 計算機 美國 非小說類
发表于2024-11-22
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A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and worked. He begins with Copernicus, during the Renaissance, when science replaced mysticism as a means of explaining the workings of the world, and he continues through the centuries, creating an unbroken genealogy of not only the greatest but also the more obscure names of Western science, a dot-to-dot line linking amateur to genius, and accidental discovery to brilliant deduction.
By focusing on the scientists themselves, Gribbin has written an anecdotal narrative enlivened with stories of personal drama, success and failure. A bestselling science writer with an international reputation, Gribbin is among the few authors who could even attempt a work of this magnitude. Praised as “a sequence of witty, information-packed tales” and “a terrific read” by The Times upon its recent British publication, The Scientists breathes new life into such venerable icons as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, as well as lesser lights whose stories have been undeservedly neglected. Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.
From the Hardcover edition.
國內的此類書籍往往太簡單,對科學傢的評價不夠全麵,也沒有考慮到具體的形勢局限,於是科學史就成瞭單嚮綫性的,“理智”與“愚昧”搏鬥並不斷取得勝利的曆史。 這本書不一樣,首先它給人很明確的“時期”概念,比如文藝復興之前的“科學傢”如哥白尼、維撒留、哈維是怎麼研究科學的,第榖、伽利略他們又是怎樣研究科學的,不但描述瞭他們的研究成果,更講解瞭他們的方法論,讓人認識到方法論的大背景及其重要性;其次他對科學傢的評價比較客觀,每個人的成就、局限都能講齣來龍去脈,讓讀者真正感覺到,科學是不斷摸索、不斷改進自身的過程;最後作者的語言非常淺顯又生動,並沒有使用太多復雜的單詞,讓普通讀者也可以享受閱讀原版優秀作品的愜意
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評分Though I've only read a few chapters, I was hooked. The infinite potentials of the human kind and the magic of science are beautifully illustrated in this book. I give 4 stars only because this edition is mega user unfriendly: tiny teeny itty bitty words packing together make me really uncomfortable.
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The Scientists pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024