A Student's Guide to Natural Science

by Stephen M. Barr

Book Overview

Physicist Stephen M. Barr's lucid Student's Guide to Natural Science gives students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on physics. Barr discusses the contributions of the ancient Greeks, the medieval roots of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the role religion played in fostering the idea of a lawful natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932236929
• ISBN13: 9781932236927
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Degradation of Education

This is one of a series of small books aimed, I think, at high school seniors thinking of attending college but without sufficient education to have a clue about what to expect in college level courses. Readers of these small books will end up with an expectation which they can then compare to curriculum offerings. Many colleges and universities offer courses which are worse than useless and the avoiding of these will save money and minds. Barr is a scientist who can write for a general audience and is part of the new group of non determinists formed since the discovery of Da Vinci's writings-the ones which poked an unhealed hole into so-called Enlightenment history of science.