Bedeviled : : A Shadow History of Demons in Science / / Jimena Canales.
How scientists conjure demons to unlock the secrets of the universeScience may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the enlightening power of reason, a new kind of demon mischievously materialized in the s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Descartes’s Evil Genius
- 2. Laplace’s Intelligence
- 3. Maxwell’s Demon
- 4. Brownian Motion Demons
- 5. Einstein’s Ghosts
- 6. Quantum Demons
- 7. Cybernetic Metastable Demons
- 8. Computer Daemons
- 9. Biology’s Demons
- 10. Demons in the Global Economy
- Conclusion: The Audacity of Our Imagination
- Postscript: Philosophical Considerations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index