Mark L. Brake

Gebundenes Buch

Revolution in Science

How Galileo and Darwin Changed Our World

Beschreibung

This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin. Mark Brake captures the adventure and excitement of these two scientists in this is a timely examination of the ways in which faith and science clash, and how the battle for 'truth' is a perennial one.

Autor

MARK BRAKE is Director of the Science Communication Research Unit at the University of Glamorgan in Wales, UK. He has served as science consultant to Microsoft and was a founding member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute science communication group. He is the author of Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science (2007) and Futureworld: Where Science Fiction Becomes Science (2008). He lives in Wales, United Kingdom.

Produktdetails

• Macmillan Science
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20268-9
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 146mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780230202689
• ISBN-10: 0230202683
• Artikelnr.: 26925870

Rezensionen

"Fascinating. Mark Brake takes a story about the political manipulation of the scientific ideasof Greek natural philosophers by the established church across two millennia and with a facility and style rare among scientists and an acute understanding of the human condition breathes life into the entire fabric. A compelling, thought provoking and inventive narrative." - Roy Davies, author of The Darwin Conspiracy: Origins of a Scientific Crime