History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind's self-understanding.

Cum se leaga fizica pe care o cunoastem astazi - o intreprindere extrem de profesionalizata, indisolubil legata de guvern si industrie - la originile sale ca arta liberala in Grecia Antica? Cartea clara si inteleapta a lui John Heilbron spune povestea de 2500 de ani si evidentiaza implicatiile pentru intelegerea de sine a omenirii.