A Students Guide to Natural Science (Guides To Major Disciplines)

By Stephen M. Barr

Book Overview

Physicist Stephen M. Barr's lucid Student's Guide to Natural Science gives students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr discusses the contributions of the ancient Greeks, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role religion played in fostering the idea of a lawful natural order, and the major theoretical breakthroughs of modern physics. Throughout this thoughtful guide, Barr draws his readers' attention to the larger themes and trends of scientific history, including the increasing unification of our view of the physical world, in which the laws of nature appear increasingly to form a single harmonious mathematical edifice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932236929
• ISBN13: 9781932236927
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Degradation of Education

This is one of a series of small books aimed, I think, at high school seniors thinking of attending college but without sufficient education to have a clue about what to expect in college level courses. Readers of these small books will end up with an expectation which they can then compare to curriculum offerings. Many colleges and universities offer courses which are worse than useless and the avoiding of these will save money and minds. Barr is a scientist who can write for a general audience and is part of the new group of non determinists formed since the discovery of Da Vinci's writings-the ones which poked an unhealed hole into so-called Enlightenment history of science.