Book ID: CBB000301721

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century (2002)

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Peat, F. David (Author)


Joseph Henry Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xiv + 230 pp., index
Language: English

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Review Ruse, Michael (2004) Review of "From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 418). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Atkinson, David
Ball, Philip
Benson, Etienne Samuel
Bruin, A. de
Bruin, D. de
Fitzpatrick, Martin
Journals
Journal of Historical Geography
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
History of Political Economy
HOPOS
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Publishers
Routledge
University of Chicago Press
Cornell University Press
Doubleday
Polity Press
University of Alabama Press
Concepts
Certainty; uncertainty
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Philosophy of science
Public health
Probability and statistics
People
Heisenberg, Werner
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Dingler, Hugo
Einstein, Albert
Modigliani, Franco
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Enlightenment
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Canada
Europe
Latin America
Netherlands
Institutions
United States. Geological Survey
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