Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Changing the World / 1: |
Early attitudes to Science / 1.1: |
A new Vision -- Science as the Key to Progress / 1.2: |
New Tools and Methods for Science / 1.3: |
Science forms a Community / 1.4: |
Early Science as seen by the Public / 1.5: |
Early attempts to make use of Science / 1.6: |
Science meets Industry and is seen to be useful / 1.7: |
Knowledge meets Power -- the first science-based industries / 1.8: |
Science becomes a Profession / 1.9: |
Science grows fast / 1.10: |
Science finds Patrons in Industry / 1.11: |
Science finds Patrons in Government / 1.12: |
Science is identified with its Applications / 1.13: |
Interpreting the World / 2: |
The Medieval Model of the World / 2.1: |
The Medieval Model is destroyed -- the Copernican revolution / 2.2: |
Newton makes a new Model of the World / 2.3: |
The Mechanical Philosophy -- the Cartesian revolution / 2.4: |
The Idea that Matter is made up of Atoms / 2.5: |
The Idea that Living Matter is made up of Cells / 2.6: |
Understanding Heat and Energy / 2.7: |
The Idea of the Aether -- the Mechanical Philosophy fails / 2.8: |
The Idea of Evolution -- the Darwinian revolution / 2.9: |
Fin du Siecle / 2.10: |
Science in the 20th century -- exploring the very large and very small / 2.11: |
Exploring the very small -- the realm of the atom / 2.12: |
The Ideas of the Quantum Theory -- a revolution in scientific thought / 2.13: |
The Idea of Complementarity -- the observer enters the picture / 2.14: |
Chance replaces Certainty / 2.15: |
A Failure of Reductionism -- some things cannot be taken to pieces / 2.16: |
Exploring the very large -- a new understanding of Space and Time / 2.17: |
Exploring the very large -- the realm of the Galaxies / 2.18: |
In the Beginning / 2.19: |
The Cultural Dimension of Science / 3: |
Our Image of Science / 3.1: |
Making better practical use of Science / 3.2: |
Why support Basic Research? / 3.3: |
How shall we choose what Basic Research to do? / 3.4: |
Learning about Science / 3.5: |
The Cultural Function of Science / 3.6: |
The Perspectives of Science / 3.7: |
Science and Values / 3.8: |
Beyond the Mechanical Philosophy / 3.9: |
Living with Uncertainty / 3.10: |
Science as Metaphor / 3.11: |
The Pursuit of Wisdom / 3.12: |
The Religious Dimension of Science / 4: |
The Divorce of Science and Religion / 4.1: |
The need to reconcile Science and Religion / 4.2: |
The Nature and Function of Science and Religion / 4.3: |
Scientific Knowledge and Divine Revelation / 4.4: |
Religious Belief and Obsolete Science / 4.5: |
Religious Belief and Contemporary Science / 4.6: |
The Enlightenment of Belief / 4.7: |
Selected Bibliography |
Index |
Changing the world |
Interpreting the world |
The cultural dimension of science |
The religious dimension of science |
Selected bibliography |
Preface |
Acknowledgements |
Changing the World / 1: |
Early attitudes to Science / 1.1: |
A new Vision -- Science as the Key to Progress / 1.2: |
New Tools and Methods for Science / 1.3: |