Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science

by J.D. Trout

Book Overview

A fresh, daring, and genuine alternative to the traditional story of scientific progress

Explaining the world around us, and the life within it, is one of the most uniquely human drives, and the most celebrated activity of science. Good explanations are what provide accurate causal accounts of the things we wonder at, but explanation's earthly origins haven't grounded it: we have used it to account for the grandest and most wondrous mysteries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190878657
• ISBN13: 9780190878658
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"