How does the physics we know today – a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry – link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron’s crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and highlights the implications for humankind’s self-understanding.

Author J. L. Heilbron Published by Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199684120 EAN 9780199684120 Bic Code Cover Paperback