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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691241685ISBN-10:691241686UPC:9780691241685Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Philosophy & Social Aspects, PhysicsSize:9.13 x 6.06 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCJHVEJ2M8
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities--demons--to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible
Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691241685ISBN-10:691241686UPC:9780691241685Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Philosophy & Social Aspects, PhysicsSize:9.13 x 6.06 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SCJHVEJ2M8
Jimena Canales is a writer and faculty member of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the History of Science at the University of Illinois and associate professor at Harvard University. She is the author of The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time (Princeton)...
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