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Description ..."The spider’s web is the hidden software of the book. It celebrates a reunion of the many subdivisions of science that is now in progress. Let’s return to the mental world of 200 years ago, before overspecialization spoilt the scientific culture. In those days a tolerably enlightened person could expect to know not just the buzzwords but the intellectual issues about atoms, stars, fossils, climate, and where swallows go in the winter. The difference now is that you’ll understand stars better if you know about atoms, and vice versa. It’s the same with fossils and climate. Everything connects, not by sentimental holism, but in physical and chemical processes that gradually reassemble dem dry bones of Mother Nature. To find out how a swallow knows where to go in the winter, and to solve many other obstinate mysteries, only the cross-disciplinary routes may do."... MAGIC UNIVERSE A Grand Tour of Modern Science By: Nigel Calder 769 pages Language: EN Format: PDF Related Torrents
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