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发表于2025-03-14
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A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.
In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world—they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.
An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development.
Steven Weinberg is a theoretical physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Lewis Thomas Prize for the Scientist as Poet, and numerous honorary degrees and other awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Royal Society of London, the American Philosophical Society, and other academies. A longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, he is the author of The First Three Minutes, Dreams of a Final Theory, Facing Up, and Lake Views, as well as leading treatises on theoretical physics. He holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
日课043 | 科学家对诗人有失恭敬 | 《给世界的答案》
评分Weinberg在这本书中主要用物理学史来说明推动物理学发展的并不是哲学,恰恰相反,哲学经常阻碍物理学的进度。是实验推动了物理学的进步,挑战了哲学,同时推动哲学的进步。
评分Plato was ‘silly.’ Bacon ‘overrated.’ Galileo ‘behind the times.’ 论为什么科学家不能写历史。其实我一直觉得吴军写的数学和浪潮不错,但文明就不行。
评分其实地上本没有路,走的人多了,也便成了路
评分从泰勒斯到牛顿
我很喜欢书名《给世界的答案》,有两层含义:其一是让读者从书中找到自己对所处的世界所不了解的答案;其二是告诉世界,我们对它的认识,从而给它的答案。作者是现代物理学家,并一直研究物理史和科学史,以现有的观点去看待过往,从而讲解科学的起源与发展,以及不同学科间的联...
评分重要的事情先说三遍: 千万别把它当作科普著作来读! 千万别把它当作科普著作来读! 千万别把它当作科普著作来读! 不然?不然你看两页就会丢,然后骂骂咧咧:“什么XX玩意儿啊~” 不信你就翻开这本书瞧瞧, 我擦密密麻麻的字,充满了科学及其相关术语, 好不容易字没那么密集...
评分我们总是提到三观,这三观分别是价值观、人生观和世界观。其中世界观,是说我们如何认识这个世界的。另外,从专业角度考虑,通常来说这是哲学家主要思考的问题。这种情势下我的思维有些定型,很少去把自然科学与对世界的认识这个问题联系起来,然而自然科学往往改变事物的存在...
评分我刚知道津巴布韦是非洲的经济典范,立马就又传出那个国家通货膨胀率达到百分之一千的消息。这边刚开一个威尼斯电影节,那边又要开多伦多电影节……就这么—个小破村,每天发生的事情让人眼花缭乱,小姐我踮起脚尖往前看,也只能看到舞台角落里花旦的那双鞋子。 你们公司待遇不...
评分(首先说明一下,本文绝不能算书评,因为书是好书,怪我才疏学浅,所以我自认对于这样一本著作是绝无资格评说的,不如勉强称为“读后感”好了。) 在未读此书之前,仅凭封面就有了好感,也不知道是哪个困素使然,将这本书在我的大脑里同“历史”相连接,等到开心的拿到书并满...
To Explain the World pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025