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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Physics’ metamorphosis explored in slim new book
>> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics’-metamorphosis-explored-slim-new-book
> 
> 
>> “In antiquity, physics was philosophy, a liberal art, the pursuit of
>> a free man wealthy enough to do what he wished,” Heilbron writes. In
>> Greek philosophy, “physics … inquired into the principles regulating
>> the physical world from the high heavens to the Earth’s center, and
>> from the human soul to the life of the least of living creatures.” It
>> was about defining man’s place in nature, for the purpose of
>> identifying “the ethical consequences of … the way the world began
>> and persists.”
>>
>> Few modern physicists would conceive of their quest in quite that
>> way. And the Greeks did not pursue their quest with the methods that
>> modern physicists employ, bothering little with experiments and only
>> occasionally with math.
>>
>> So Heilbron refers to premodern physicists as physici who practiced
>> physica, and proceeds to tell the story of how the physica of the
>> ancients became modern physics. In an engaging 200 pages, he
>> documents the step-by-step transformation of the philosophy of the
>> past into the science of the present.
 
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Physics’ metamorphosis explored in slim new book Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 20:46 -0600
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