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In this rich, irreverent, and convincing history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg needs us across decades, from historic Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral institution of Chartres and the Royal Modern culture of London. He demonstrates the researchers of historic and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there may be to understand or how to understand it. Yet over the decades, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movements of the planets and the surge and land of the tides, the modern discipline of knowledge eventually surfaced. Weinberg examines the traditional clashes and collaborations that happened on the way between knowledge and the contending spheres of religious beliefs, technology, poetry, mathematics, and idea. An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and assess the world all around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious profile of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern knowledge and the impact this finding had on individual knowledge and development.
