Science in the Looking Glass: What Do Scientists Really Know?

by E. Brian Davies

Book Overview

In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to knowledge about the world. He looks at science historically, emphasizing not only the achievements of scientists from Galileo onwards, but also their mistakes. He rejects the claim that all scientific knowledge is provisional, by citing examples from chemistry, biology and geology. A major feature of the book is its defense of the view that mathematics was invented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198525435
• ISBN13: 9780198525431
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.7"