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The Birth of Physics

The Birth of Physics

by Michel Serres
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/01/2018

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The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world's most influential living theorists, Michel Serres. Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence, which impacts our understanding of the recent disciplines of chaos and complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and Prigogine. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient physics and has been enormously influential on work in the area, amongst other things stimulating a more general rebirth of philosophical interest in the ancients.
ISBN:
9781786606242
9781786606242
Category:
History of Western philosophy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-01-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
230.63x150.88x16.76mm
Weight:
0.4kg
Michel Serres

Michel Serres was Professor in the History of Science at Stanford University, USA and a member of the Acad mie Fran aise, France. A renowned and popular philosopher, he was a prize-winning author of essays and books.

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