

The History of Physics
A Very Short Introduction
Author: J.L. Heilbron
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/16/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics
Synopsis
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.