Explicar el mundo

In this irreverent and ambitious history of science, Steven Weinberg leads us through the centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the school of Chartres Cathedral. and the Royal Society of London. The author takes us to the minds of the scientists of Antiquity and the Middle Ages to show us how they not only did not understand what we already understand about the world; in fact, they didn't know what to understand, or of course how to understand it. However, as a result of the struggle to solve mysteries such as the curious movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the discipline of modern science finally emerged, with its objectives and its methods. Weinberg examines the confrontations and collaborations that, along this tortuous but fascinating path, took place between historical science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, mathematics, philosophy and poetry.