约翰·格里宾：科学简史：从文艺复兴到星际探索 英文原版 Science: A History 1543 - 2001

基本信息

Format Paperback | 672 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 28mm | 458g

Publication date 01 Jun 2010

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

ISBN10 0140297413

ISBN13 9780140297416

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

从文艺复兴至20世纪末，科学从自然哲学中蜕变，发展成为一幅由多个学科分支绘就的壮丽划捲。本书把握住技术与科学理论相互促进这一脉络，将其如何环环相扣、渐进发展的历史娓娓道来。对于那些大科学家，本书也多有信而有征又色彩斑斓的深入细致描写。这是一部西方科学的历史，也是写就这一历史的科学家们的个人史。

From award-winning science writer John Gribbin, Science: A History is the enthralling story of the men and women who changed the way we see the world, and the turbulent times they lived in.

From Galileo, tried by the Inquisition for his ideas, to Newton, who wrote his rivals out of the history books; from Marie Curie, forced to work apart from male students for fear she might excite them, to Louis Agassiz, who marched his colleagues up a mountain to prove that the ice ages had occurred.

Filled with pioneers, visionaries, eccentrics and madmen, this is the history of science as it has never been told before.

作者简介

约翰·格里宾（John Gribbin）,英国著名科学读物专业作家，萨塞克斯大学天文学访问学者，毕业于剑桥大学，获天体物理学博士学位，英国科学作家协会授予“终身成就奖”得主

推荐理由

'Gripping and entertaining ... Wonderfully and pleasurably accessible'

Independent on Sunday

'Tremendous ... moves me to bestow a reviewer's cliche I long ago vowed never to use: a tour de force'

Spectator

'A magnificent history ... enormously entertaining'

Daily Telegraph

'A splendid book ... demolishes innumerable myths and exposes the factual roots of some of science's well known tales (for example, Galileo never dropped weights of different sizes from Pisa's leaning tower)'

Economist

'We experience his subjects' triumphs and failures as if we knew them personally ... I found myself whizzing through the pages'

Sunday Telegraph

John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books, including In Search of Schroedinger's Cat, Stardust, Science: A History and In Search of the Multiverse. Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.