Jimena Canales

Gebundenes Buch

Bedeviled

A Shadow History of Demons in Science

Beschreibung

How scientists conjure demons to unlock the secrets of the universeScience may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began

Autor

Jimena Canales is a writer and faculty member of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois and associate professor at Harvard University. She is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time (Princeton) and A Tenth of a Second. She lives in Boston. Twitter @_Jimena_Canales

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780691175324
• ISBN-10: 0691175322
• Artikelnr.: 59321382