The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality - Couverture rigide

Newton, Roger G.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674910923 ISBN 13 : 9780674910928

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The very notion of scientific truth is in question. This book aims to offer a constructive response to those who contend that there is no such thing as verifiable objective truth - without which there could be no scientific authority. The reader is given a guided tour of the intellectual structure of physical science and the understanding of reality engendered by modern physics, the most theoretically advanced of the sciences. It explores models, facts, theories, intuition and imagintion, the use of analogies and metaphors, the importance of mathematics and the "virtual" reality of the physics of micro-particles.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A distinguished physiscist with a rare gift for making the most complicated sciencetific ideas comprehensible, Roger Newton gives us a guided tour of the intellectual structure of physical science. From there, he conducts us through the understanding of reality engendered by modern physics, the most theoretically advanced of the sciences. With its firsthand look at models, facts, and thoeries, intuition, and imagination, the use of analogies and metaphors, the importance of mathematics (and now, computers) and the "virtual" reality of the physics of micro-particles, The Truth of Science truly is a practicing scientist's account of the foundations, processes, and value of science.

Biographie de l'auteur

Roger G. Newton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at Indiana University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674910923
• ISBN 13: 9780674910928
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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