书名：To Explain the World 给世界的答案 发现现代科学

作者：Steven Weinberg

出版社名称：Penguin

出版时间：2016

语种：英语

ISBN：9780141980874

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

在《解释世界》一书中，杰出的理论物理学家史蒂文·温伯格从一个科学家的独特视角，提供了一个丰富而不受尊敬的科学史。从古代米利都到中世纪的巴格达再到牛津，从亚历山大博物馆到伦敦皇家学会，他证明了过去的科学家们不仅不理解我们对世界的理解，他们也不理解我们需要理解的东西。然而最终，在解决诸如行星的逆向运动和潮汐涨落等谜团的斗争中，现代科学学科出现了。

In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he shows that the scientists of the past not only did not understand what we understand about the world - they did not understand what there is to understand. Yet eventually, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of tides, the modern discipline of science emerged.

Steven Weinberg has won the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Lewis Thomas Prize for the Scientist as Poet and numerous honorary degrees. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Royal Society of London and the American Philosophical Society. A long-time contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the author of The First Three Minutes and Dreams of a Final Theory, among other books.