The History of Physics: A Very Short… by J.L. Heilbron · Audiobook preview

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The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction
Authored by J.L. Heilbron
Narrated by Sean Runnette

0:00 Intro
0:03 Introduction: the Greek way
4:02 1 Invention in antiquity
30:53 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

How does the physics we know today—a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry—link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels?



This Very Short Introduction introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians calculating the size of the earth while their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar–theologians investigating light; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the "House of Wisdom" in ninth–century Baghdad; Europe's first universities; the courts of the Renaissance; the Scientific Revolution and the academies of the eighteenth century; and the increasingly specialized world of twentieth and twenty–first century science. Highlighting the shifting relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and technology—and the implications for humankind's self–understanding—Heilbron explores the changing place and purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured it over the centuries.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. L. Heilbron, formerly Professor of History and the Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford. He was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society in 1993 for his contributions to the field.


Sean Runnette, a multiple AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has also produced several Audie Award–winning audiobooks. His film and television appearances include Two If by Sea, Copland, Sex and the City, Law & Order, Third Watch, and lots and lots of commercials.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Published on: October 16, 2018
ISBN: 9781977330482
Duration: 5 hr, 6 min
Genres: Science / General, Science / History, Science / Physics / General