Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
by
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them...