The Oxford Illustrated History of Science (Record no. 296497)
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fixed length control field | 02440nam a22001577a 4500 |
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International Standard Book Number | 978-0199663279 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 509 OXF .PS |
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Personal name | Iwan Rhys Morus [ editor ] |
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Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of Science |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2017 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | x, 436 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Formatted contents note | Part 1. Seeking origins -- Science in the ancient Mediterranean world / James Evans -- Science in ancient China / Donald Harper -- Science in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds / Steven J. Livesey and Sonja Brentjes -- Science in the pre-modern east / Dagmar Schaefer -- The scientific revolution / John Henry -- Enlightenment science / Jan Golinski. -- Part 2. Doing science. -- Experimental cultures / Iwan Rhys Morus -- Exploring nature / Amanda Rees -- The meaning of life / Peter Bowler -- Mapping the universe / Robert Smith -- Theoretical visions / Matthew Stanley -- Communicating science / Charlotte Sleigh. |
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Summary, etc. | Overview The Oxford Illustrated History of Science by Iwan Rhys Morus The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first-ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both the East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowder, paper, and the printing press; from the Scientific Revolution of sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century. The chapters that follow focus on the increasingly specialized story of science since the end of the eighteenth century, covering experimental science in the laboratory from Michael Faraday to CERN; the exploration of nature from intrepid Victorian explorers to twentieth century primatologists; the mapping of the universe from the discovery of Uranus to the Big Bang Theory; the impact of evolutionary ideas from Lamarck, Darwin, and Wallace to DNA; and the story of theoretical physics from James Clark Maxwell to Quantum Theory and beyond. A concluding chapter reflects on how scientists have communicated their work to a wider public, from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Internet in the early twenty-first century. |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | Science--History. |
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Koha item type | Book |
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Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 03/02/2018 | 1 | 509 OXF .PS | DCB3204 | 12/03/2018 | 03/02/2018 | 03/02/2018 | Book |