Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science
Auteur :
Canales, Jimena
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691175324
Date de publication :
10 nov. 2020
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
How scientists conjure demons to unlock the secrets of the universeScience may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the scientific imagination itself. Scientists began