Nature and the Greeks, and, Science and humanism / Erwin Schrödinger ; with a foreword by Roger Penrose.
Material type: TextSeries: Canto classicsPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (x, 172 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781139923491 (ebook)
- 'Nature & the Greeks' & 'Science & Humanism'
- 501 23
- Q175 .S357 2014
Originally published as separate titles in 1951 and 1954 in Cambridge by Cambridge University Press.
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of Schrödinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive historical account of the twentieth-century scientific world picture, tracing modern science back to the earliest stages of Western philosophic thought. 'Science and Humanism' addresses some of the most fundamental questions of the century: what is the value of scientific research? And how do the achievements of modern science affect the relationship between material and spiritual matters? A foreword by Roger Penrose sets the lectures in a contemporary context, and affirms they are as relevant today as when they were first published.
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