Audiobooks Narrated by
Edwin Newman
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In 1859, Charles Darwin published a vastly important work: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. For centuries, man had been seen as a created species, distinct from any other animal.
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalogue nature's many basic elements.
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Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons until the Renaissance.
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While astronomers charted the heavens, geographers and cartographers mapped the earth's exotic land and seas.
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Newtonian physics described a regular, clock-like world of forces and reaction; randomness was equated with incomplete knowledge.
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Newton was a natural philosopher (the word "scientist" had not yet been coined) who described a planetary system held together by gravitational forces.
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Einstein overthrew Newtonian physics but like Newton he still believed that physical events have definite causes. Then Niels Bohr, a Danish physicist, joined others in describing a strange new world of uncertainty and mystery.
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As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars
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Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, "absolute" framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late nineteenth century created new and troubling inconsistencies.
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The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever. But only with the written word did there emerge a record of speculations about how and why things happen.
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