English· 08:18:16· 21 chapters
A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space (Babylonia, Egypt) to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine (Langley) and the discovery of radioactivity (Curie). - Summary by Steven Seitel
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
00 Preface
05:45 - Chapter 2
01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia
24:27 - Chapter 3
02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle
26:58 - Chapter 4
03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius
22:27 - Chapter 5
04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs
24:28 - Chapter 6
05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon
27:49 - Chapter 7
06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes
23:46 - Chapter 8
07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle
23:03 - Chapter 9
08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society
26:40 - Chapter 10
09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin
26:13 - Chapter 11
10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith
23:00 - Chapter 12
11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel
22:23 - Chapter 13
12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule
26:12 - Chapter 14
13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy
25:29 - Chapter 15
14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune
22:41 - Chapter 16
15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle
27:49 - Chapter 17
16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister
31:51 - Chapter 18
17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane
22:54 - Chapter 19
18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances
21:04 - Chapter 20
19 The Scientific Imagination
20:45 - Chapter 21
20 Science and Democratic Culture
22:32