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Keerpunten: Momenten Van Waarheid in De Natuurwetenschap

Keerpunten: Momenten Van Waarheid in De Natuurwetenschap


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In this engaging, lyrical book, physicist Sander Bais shows how science can liberate us from our cultural straitjacket of prejudice and intolerance. We're living in a time in which technology is taken for granted, yet belief in such standard scientific facts as evolution is actually decreasing. How is it possible for cell phones and Creationism to coexist? Science-fundamental, fact-based knowledge, not the latest technological gadget-can give us the global and local perspectives we need to make the world a better place. Bais argues that turning points in the history of science have been accompanied by similar milestones in social change, deeply affecting our view of nature, our perception of the human condition, and our understanding of the universe and our place in it. After a lively description of how curiosity trumps prejudice and pseudoscience in matters ranging from lightning rods to the transmission of HIV, Bais considers what drives science and scientists, a quest that culminates in that miraculous mixture of creativity and ingenuity found in the greatest scientists. He describes what he calls the "circle of science"-the microcosm and the macrocosm as mirror images-and demonstrates unity in a dazzling sequence of topics, including the hierarchy of structures, the forces of nature, cosmological evolution, and the challenge of complexity. Finally, Bais takes on the obstacles science encounters in a world dominated by short-term political and economic interests. Science, he says, needs to get its message out. Drawing on sources that range from Charles Darwin and Karl Popper to Herbert Marcuse and Richard Feynman, with In Praise of Science, Bais does just that. Read the review of In Praise of Science (MIT Press, USA) in "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=2635"> New Science, 27th of February 2010.

Table of Contents:
Inhoud - 10 Voorwoord - 12 Inleiding - 14 I Nieuwsgierigheid overwint vooroordelen - 20 II De dubbele helix van wetenschap en technologie - 66 III Keerpunten - 86 IV Op zoek naar waarheid - 156 Epiloog - 188 Aanbevolen literatuur - 190 Lijst van illustraties - 191 Register - 193

Review :
"Ik kan geen betere gids bedenken voor deze wonderbaarlijke reis door de wereld van de wetenschap dan Sander Bais. De reiziger wordt beloond met wijde vergezichten, verrassende details, historische anekdotes en bedachtzame bespiegelingen over de toekomst, maar bovenal met een diepe liefde voor de wetenschap." Prof. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Universiteit van Amsterdam President van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen "Wetenschap is de motor van vooruitgang; wetenschap staat in het hart van de cultuur en midden in de maatschappij. In Keerpunten houdt Sander Bais een hartstochtelijk betoog voor het belang van wetenschappelijk onderzoek en van beta-kennis. Hij legt voor een breed publiek boeiend en begrijpelijk uit hoe wetenschap werkt." Nelleke Noordervliet "Keerpunten is net zo'n juweeltje als zijn voorgangers De natuurwetten en De sublieme eenvoud van de relativiteit: mooie zorgvuldige boekjes die zelfs alfa's aan het denken zetten. En die beta's uit de marge halen." Martijn van Calmthout, de Volkskrant "Ik heb dit boek met veel plezier gelezen. Het brengt de totaliteit van de natuurwetenschappen helder in beeld, maar ook haar culturele dimensies; uitermate geschikt dus voor een breed publiek. Met volop mooie citaten en figuren die je bijblijven." Prof. Dudley Herschbach, winnaar Nobelprijs Scheikunde 1986, Texas A&M/Harvard University, VS "Dit boek gaat over werkelijke wetenschap: een complex sociaal verschijnsel dat voor ons de enige solide manier is om 'waar' van 'niet waar' te onderscheiden, en leidt tot een gestage, maar ingrijpende transformatie van onze cultuur. Daarbij brengt het ook de objectieve schoonheid van ons heelal steeds meer in beeld." Prof. Doyne Farmer, Santa Fe Institute, VS, Econoom/natuurkundige, mede-oprichter van Prediction Company "Weinigen die werken aan het kennisfront zijn bereid hun tijd en energie te steken in het brengen van wetenschap naar een breder publiek. Sander Bais is zo iemand - en is dat wederom met succes. Van beide kanten van C.P. Snow's scheidslijn mogen we dankbaar en opgetogen zijn dat hij zijn wijsheid met ons deelt." Harold J. Morowitz, Krasnow Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia, VS


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789089641670
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
  • Height: 170 mm
  • Sub Title: Momenten Van Waarheid in De Natuurwetenschap
  • Width: 190 mm
  • ISBN-10: 908964167X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: Dutch; Flemish
  • Weight: 627 gr


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