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A fascinating long view of science by an author with extensive "insider" knowledge
Warns against the assumption that science equates with salvation
Paints plausible pictures of different futures, showing how they relate to our use and abuse of science
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
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“This is a fascinating, extensive, and insightful journey through the history of science. … as a work of sound scholarship, it belongs in all college libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (V. V. Raman, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Germany
Claudio Ronchi
About the author
Claudio Ronchi Dr., Gartenstrasse 37, D 76689 Karlsdorf-Neuthard, claron@arcor.de
CLAUDIO RONCHI was born in Milan in 1940. He attended the Classic Grammar School and after graduating in mathematics and physics from the State University of Milan, he joined the European Fast Reactor Project. He worked in German, French, English and Americans laboratories. In the 1990s he was requisitioned by the European Commission to establish a collaborative effort with the countries of the former Soviet Union. To this end he coordinated the first joint nuclear research projects with important Russian and European laboratories. Until his retirement he was head of the Materials Research Division of the European Institute of Transuranium Elements to Karlsruhe, where he also supervised PhD works of students from all over the world. He presently lives in Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Tree of Knowledge
Book Subtitle: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science
Authors: Claudio Ronchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01484-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01483-8Published: 22 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34652-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01484-5Published: 08 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 286
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Popular Science, general, History of Science