The Growth of Physical Science

The Growth of Physical Science is a detailed but very accessible survey of what began as natural philosophy and culminated in the mid-twentieth century as quantum physical science.

James Jeans (Author)

9781108005654, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

408 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg

The Growth of Physical Science is a detailed but very accessible survey of what began as natural philosophy and culminated in the mid-twentieth century as quantum physical science. From the earliest physical investigations of nature made by the various civilisations of Babylonia, Phoenicia and Egypt (a period covering 5000–600 BC), through the remarkable mathematical and philosophical achievements of the ancient Greeks, to the ages of Newton and then Einstein, Rutherford and Bohr, Jeans has written a comprehensive history of this tremendous advancement in our understanding of the universe, one that will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in this subject.

1. The remote beginnings
2. Ionia and early Greece
3. Science and Alexandria
4. Science in the dark ages
5. The birth of modern science
6. The century of genius
7. The two centuries after Newton
8. The era of modern physics.

Subject Areas: Astronomy, space & time [PG]