Convergence
Author: Peter Watson
ISBN: 978-1471129025
Price: Rs. 599.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master narrative, one overwhelming interlocking coherent story: The history of the universe.Intimate connections between physics and chemistry have been revealed as have the links between quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Astronomy has been augmented by particle physics, psychology has been increasingly aligned with physics, with chemistry and even with economics. Genetics has been harmonised with linguistics, botany with archaeology, climatology with myth. This is a simple insight but one with profound consequences. Convergence is, as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg has put it, ¹…œThe deepest thing about the universe.This book does not, however, tell the story by beginning at the beginning and ending at the end. It is much more revealing, more convincing and altogether more thrilling to tell the story as it emerged, as it began to fall into place, piece by piece, converging tentatively at first, but then with increasing speed, vigour and confidence. The overlaps and interdependence of the sciences, the emerging order that they are gradually uncovering, is without question the most enthralling aspect of twenty-first-century science.
Browse this title within our Science and Technology collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 577 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1471129025.
About the Author
Peter Watson is an intellectual historian, journalist, and the author of thirteen books, including Convergence; Ideas: A History; The Age of Atheists; The German Genius; The Medici Conspiracy; and The Great Divide. He has written for The Sunday Times, The New York Times, the Observer, and the Spectator. He lives in London.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-1471129025
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
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What is this book about?
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this if you enjoy seeing the big picture behind scientific ideas. Instead of treating physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology as isolated fields, this book shows how they’ve slowly merged into one powerful story about the universe itself. It’s intellectually thrilling without being dry, helping you connect dots across disciplines and rethink how knowledge evolves. Perfect when you want a thoughtful, mind-expanding read that stays with you long after the last page.
- Published by Simon & Schuster UK.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 577.
Catalog Description
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master narrative, one overwhelming interlocking coherent story: The history of the universe.Intimate connections between physics and chemistry have been revealed as have the links between quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Astronomy has been augmented by particle physics, psychology has been increasingly aligned with physics, with chemistry and even with economics. Genetics has been harmonised...
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