An Introduction to the History of Science: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Introduction to the History of Science, credited to Walter Libby, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of An Introduction to the History of Science by Walter Libby. Read in English by Steven Seitel. A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space (Babylonia, Egypt) to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine (Langley) and the discovery of radioactivity (Curie). - Summary by Steven Seitel

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Introduction to the History of Science
• Author credits: Walter Libby
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 8:18:16

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• science
• history
• Scientific Method
• discoveries

Track guide

1. 00 Preface — 5:45
2. 01 Science and Practical Needs - Egypt and Babylonia — 24:27
3. 02 The Influence of Abstract Thought - Greece: Aristotle — 26:58
4. 03 Scientific Theory Subordinated to Application - Rome: Vitruvius — 22:27
5. 04 The Continuity of Science - The Medieval Church and the Arabs — 24:28
6. 05 The Classification of the Sciences - Francis Bacon — 27:49
7. 06 Scientific Method - Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Descartes — 23:46
8. 07 Science as Measurement - Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Boyle — 23:03
9. 08 Cooperation in Science - The Royal Society — 26:40
10. 09 Science and the Struggle for Liberty - Benjamin Franklin — 26:12
11. 10 The Interaction of the Sciences - Werner, Hutton, Black, Hall, William Smith — 23:00
12. 11 Science and Religion - Kant, Lambert, Laplace, Sir William Herschel — 22:23
13. 12 The Reign of Law - Dalton, Joule — 26:12
14. 13 The Scientist - Sir Humphry Davy — 25:29
15. 14 Scientific Prediction - The Discovery of Neptune — 22:41
16. 15 Science and Travel - The Voyage of the Beagle — 27:49
17. 16 Science and War - Pasteur, Lister — 31:51
18. 17 Science and Invention - Langley's Aeroplane — 22:54
19. 18 Scientific Hypothesis - Radioactive Substances — 21:04
20. 19 The Scientific Imagination — 20:45
21. 20 Science and Democratic Culture — 22:32

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