Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Автор: Eric J. Chaisson
Издательство: New York "Columbia University Press"
Год: 2005
Страниц: 501
Размер: 6,51 МБ

Only a few hundred years ago, the idea of Earth’s centrality and the reliance on supernatural beings were shattered. During the Renaissance, humans began to inquire more critically about themselves and the Universe. They realized that thinking about Nature was no longer sufficient. Looking at it was also necessary. Experiments became a central part of the process of inquiry. To be effective, ideas had to be tested experimentally, either to refine them if data favored them or to reject them if they did not. The “scientific method” was born— probably the most powerful technique ever conceived for the advancement of factual information. Modern science had arrived.