The Clockwork Universe
内容简介
At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brilliant, ambitious, confused, conflicted men. They believed in angels and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws. This is the story of the bewildered geniuses who made the modern world.
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作者简介
Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He lives with his wife near Washington, D.C.
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读书文摘
对知道如何阅读的人而言，世界是一篇井然有序的文章，但对不懂的人来说它却是纠结的墨渍与潦草的字迹。
即使是科学的事实也带有意外的感觉。糖是甜的，但似乎没有特别的原因让糖不能是酸的。只有数学的真理似乎是颠扑不破的。即使是神也无法造出一个有角的圆。
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