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The Upright Thinkers by Mlodinow, Leonard is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Upright Thinkers about?
A few million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and began to stand upright, freeing our hands to create tools and our minds to grapple with the world around us. Leonard Mlodinow takes us on a passionate and inspiring tour through the exciting history of human progress and the key events in the development of science. In the process, he presents a fascinating new look at the unique characteristics of our species and our society that helped propel us from stone tools to written language and through the birth of chemistry, biology, and modern physics to today’s technological world. Along the way he explores the cultural conditions that influenced scientific thought through the ages and the colorful personalities of some of the great philosophers, scientists, and thinkers: Galileo, who preferred painting and poetry to medicine and dropped out of university; Isaac Newton, who stuck needlelike bodkins into his eyes to better understand...
Who reads The Upright Thinkers?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mlodinow, Leonard
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Scientific Popular, Stem
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