A Cultural History of Physics

A Cultural History of Physics
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 9781439865118
ISBN-13 : 1439865116
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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Physics by : Karoly Simonyi

Download or read book A Cultural History of Physics written by Karoly Simonyi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture,


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