To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguish…

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