Description
This is the first English translation of this revolutionary essay by Vladimir I. Vernadsky, the great Russian-Ukrainian biogeochemist. It was first published in 1930 in French in the Revue g n rale des sciences pures et appliqu es. In it, Vernadsky makes a powerful and provocative argument for the need to develop what he calls "a new physics," something he felt was clearly necessitated by the implications of the groundbreaking work of Louis Pasteur among few others, but also something that was required to free science from the long-lasting effects of the work of Isaac Newton, most notably.
For hundreds of years, science had developed in a direction which became increasingly detached from the breakthroughs made in the study of life and the natural sciences, detached even from human life itself, and committed reductionists and small-minded scientists were resolved to the fact that ultimately all would be reduced to "the old physics." The scientific revolution of Einstein was a step in the right direction, but here Vernadsky insists that there is more progress to be made. He makes a bold call for a new physics, taking into account, and fundamentally based upon, the striking anomalies of life and human life.
Published by 21st Century Science & Technology
Author: Meghan Rouillard, Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 06/20/2015
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.17d
ISBN13: 9781514637104
ISBN10: 1514637103
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences | General
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