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The History of Science

By Peter Whitfield
Narrated by: Peter Whitfield
Unabridged — 5 hours, 9 minutes
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By Peter Whitfield
Narrated by: Peter Whitfield
Unabridged — 5 hours, 9 minutes
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This is the foundation of all: that we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what nature does, or may be made to do. Thus did Francis Bacon, early in the 17th century, outline the future of science and technology. This drive for knowledge and power has now given us a world dominated by science, and this audiobook tells the story of how we have arrived there. The achievements of the great scientific thinkers of the ages - Copernicus, Newton, Lavoisier, Darwin, Pasteur, Einstein, Fre...