Labyrinth : a search for the hidden meaning of science /

• Main Author: Pesic, Peter (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2000.
• Subjects: Science > Philosophy.; Science > Methodology.; SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.; Wetenschappen.; Filosofie.; Electronic books.

Annotation Nature has secrets, and it is the desire to uncover them that motivates the scientific quest. But what makes these "secrets" secret? Is it that they are beyond human ken? that they concern divine matters? And if they are accessible to human seeking, why do they seem so carefully...

Table of Contents:

• The Night Watch
• The Hard Masters
• Wrestling with Proteus
• Desire and Science
• The Wounded Seeker
• The Creatures of Prometheus
• The New Eros and the New Atlantis
• The Great Decryption
• The Clue to the Labyrinth
• To Leave No Problem Unsolved
• God's Spies
• Kepler at the Bridge
• Newton on the Beach
• Einstein in the Boat.