Whitfield,Peter History Of Science CD

This is the foundation of all: that we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what nature does, or may be made to do. Thus did Francis Bacon, early in the 17th century, outline the future of science and technology. This drive for knowledge and power has now given us a world dominated by science, and this audiobook tells the story of how we have arrived there. The achievements of the great scientific thinkers of the ages ? Copernicus, Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein, Freud, Hubble and many more ? are explained and woven together into an exciting story of intellectual discovery, but a story in which a sense of the mystery of the universe is always present. Find out more about The History of Science below.

1. Part 1: The Ancient and Medieval World 2. Science in Ancient Civilisations 3. The Beginning of Recorded Science 4. The Greek Genius 5. Strange As Some of These Speculations Now Appear 6. Plato and Aristotle 7. The Second Giant of Greek Thought, Aristotle 8. Hellenistic Science - Medicine 9. Ptolemy 10. Roman Science 11. The Decline of Classical Learning 12. Islamic Science 13. One of the Most Impressive Applications of Geometry 14. Science in Medieval Christendom 15. Cause Was at the Heart of This Philosophy 16. Part 2: The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution 17. The Practical Sciences 18. The Copernican Revolution 19. Looking First at the Movements of Mercury and Venus 20. The Scientific Revolution 21. Tycho Was a Danish Nobleman Who Used 22. At the Heart of All Keplers Study Lay the Problem 23. The Newtonian Synthesis 24. Other Aspects of the Scientific Revolution 25. As with Astronomy, Biology Was Revolutionised 26. Traditions of Science Outside Europe 27. If There Is One Characteristic of Non-Western 28. Part 3: The 19th Century - the Machine Age 29. The Dawn of Machine Power 30. But Another and More Practical Source of Power 31. Heat and Energy: Thermodynamics and Electricity 32. But Helmholtz Was Also a Biologist 33. Chemistry 34. However, Some Chemists Were Still Not Convinced 35. Astronomy 36. The Life Sciences: Geology and Palaeontology 37. The Darwinian Revolution 38. Human Biology 39. Medicine 40. Anthropology: The Science of Man 41. Conclusion: The 19th Century Achievement in Science 42. Part 4: The 20th Century - the New Labyrinth 43. The Mystery of the Atom 44. The Crucial Breakthrough in This Field 45. Why Was This Tiny Number So Important? 46. In One Sense the Core Subject-Matter of Chemistry 47. Einstein 48. From These Apparently Rarefied Ideas 49. The Revolution in Cosmology 50. Hubble Continued His Investigations 51. The Biological Sciences: Genetics 52. Population Geneticists of the 1920S 53. The Science of the Mind 54. Retrospect: Man and Nature