Awards
- Nominated for Sally Hacker Prize 2001
- Nominated for Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize 2005
Overview
""[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture.""-Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review ""An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture.""-Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe ""[Holton's] themes are central to an understanding of the nature of science, and Holton does an excellent job of identifying and explaining key features of the scientific enterprise, both in the historical sense and in modern science I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century.""-Ron Good, Science and Education Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.
Full Product Details
Author: Gerald Holton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.354kg
ISBN: 9780674004337
ISBN 10: 0674004337
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 September 2000
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture. -- Lucy Horowitz Boston Book Review
[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture. -- Lucy Horowitz Boston Book Review Using Albert Einstein as the embodiment of the creative force that connects science with society, Holton embraces the humanistic side of science and fights the contemporary backlash against it. Science News Holton has succeeded admirably. New York Times Book Review An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture. -- Hans C. von Baeyer Boston Sunday Globe Holton effectively outlines the terms of a debate that will determine much of our short-range future. Kirkus I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century. -- Ron Good Science and Education
I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century.--Ron Good Science and Education
Author Information
Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, and Research Professor of History of Science, Harvard University.
