The Clockwork Universe Download

ISBN: B004MTY9B6
Title: The Clockwork Universe Pdf Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.

At the end of the 17th century, an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London when most people saw the world as falling apart, these earliest scientists saw a world of perfect order. They declared that, chaotic as it looked, the universe was in fact as intricate and perfectly regulated as a clock. This was the tail end of Shakespeare's century, when the natural and the supernatural still twined around each other. Disease was a punishment ordained by God, astronomy had not yet broken free from astrology, and the sky was filled with omens. It was a time when little was known and everything was new. These brilliant, ambitious, curious men believed in angels, alchemy, and the devil, and they also believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws, a contradiction that tormented them and changed the course of history. The Clockwork Universe is the fascinating and compelling story of the bewildered geniuses of the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world.

A thoughtful book by a first-rate writer Why beat about the bush? I loved this book. I'm no scientist. I'm no mathematician. What I am is a historian and a novelist, which means I have a lively curiosity about a lot of things, the prerequisite for writing about anything. Edward Dolnick is a historian and his gig is the history of science. He also has that lively curiosity required of folks who think and put fingers to keyboards. For those of us of not scientifically gifted, we require someone, in this case Dolnick, to explain his subject. In this he excels. In The Clockwork Universe,the result is a highly readable book about how our modern age came to be. He builds his case well. Here's one example: In the Middle Ages, the big question was "Why?", as in why does this happen - the earth's rotation, etc., you name it. The answer was generally theological in nature - God did it, therefore, and so on, end of argument. As others, often risking church condemnation, took bold steps beyond, the question became "How?" This leap seems simple, but it is not. To his credit, Dolnick leads his readers along, and we make our own discoveries. I've given away many copies of this book to friends. I haven't quite started giving it away to random strangers yet, but it's good enough to be handed out on street corners. I learned a lot, and even more important, I thought a lot. Thank you, Edward Dolnick, for explaining unexplainable minds, like Sir Isaac Newton's, and Gottfried Leibniz's and others.A great look into the mind of the fathers of mathematics! The author does a wonderful job bringing us to the 17th century and into the minds of the greatest scientists to ever have lived!Being a Christian, it was refreshing to discover the great faith of these men, and how their confidence that God was a mathematician drove them to find the keys of the natural world.I commend the author, as it is clear he is not of the same persuasion about God as Newton and the others, yet still manages to present them in a fairly unbiased manner, though on occasion his disagreement did leak through. Probably the most disappointing argument he gave against the scientists of the 1600's view that God was a mathematician was as follows:"The scientists of the 1600s felt that they had come to their view of God by way of argument and observation. But they were hardly a skeptical jury, and their argument, which seemed so compelling to its original audience, sounds like special pleading today. Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, and their peers leaped to the conclusion that God was a mathematician largely because they were mathematicians—the aspects of the world that intrigued them were those that could be captured in mathematics."To me it seems very unjustified to accuse the fathers of "leaping" to the conclusion of God as a mathematician simply because they were mathematicians. To the contrary, an expert in a particular field would be the best person to recognize another expert in that field. A Bobby Fischer would most assuredly be able to discern if one were a grandmaster or not in the field of chess.In like manner, the scientists saw God as a great mathematician because they saw the evidence of his great skills expressed in the universe, not because they were mathematicians.This is an excellent book, and I do highly recommmed it for all interested in the history of these great scientists, and what life was like in the 1600s.

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