An account of how scientific thinking developed from its Pythagorean origins to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of both scientific instruments and musical ones: the organ, the microscope, the still, scales, violins and cellos, computers and electronic synthesisers. Yet the tools that have enabled us to scrutinize nature have also revealed to us the limitations of the scientific approach. In every age they have provided new answers, but in the process they have rewritten the questions we thought we were asking, altering the scope and shape of scientific enquiry.
- ISBN10 0684804344
- ISBN13 9780684804347
- Publish Date 5 December 1995 (first published 3 April 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint Touchstone
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English