Landmarks of science : from the collections of the Library of Congress / Leonard C. Bruno, foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin..

By: Bruno, Leonard C .

Contributor(s): Library of Congress.

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BookPublisher: New York : Facts on File, [1989]Description: xi, 351 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0816021376 .Uniform titles: Tradition of science Subject(s): Library of Congress | Science -- History

DDC classification: 509

Contents:

Introduction -- Astronomy:observing the Cosmos -- Botany:from herbalism to science -- Zoology:our shared nature -- Medicine:the healing science -- Chemistry:fertile alchemy -- Geology:the secret in the stone -- Mathematics:things are numbers -- Physics:the elemental why.

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A comprehensive overview of the history of scientific thinking from the Greeks to the present day. It guides readers through works such as Ptolemy's Almagest and Newton's Principia Mathematica, and various other works in the fields of astronomy, zoology, chemistry and physics.

"First published by the Library of Congress in 1987"--T.p. verso..

Bibliography: p. 299-333. - Includes index.

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An amiably written, lavishly illustrated volume that traces the history of Western science through the scientific collections in the Library of Congress. The scope of Bruno's concern includes astronomy, botany, zoology, medicine, chemistry, geology, mathematics, and physics. Among the works discussed are Ptolemy's Almagest, Bohr's Atomic Theory, Audubon's Birds of America, and Cook's Voyage towards the South Pole. That many of these works are obsolete is, paradoxically, both beside the point and the point itself of the book; for in acquainting ourselves with ways of viewing the world that have long since been discredited or disproven, Bruno shows us how we may still experience excitement and curiosity about the natural world in which those views were formulated. Bibliography; index. --Steve Weingartner