Labyrinth: A Search for The Hidden Meaning of Science.

By Peter Pesic (E-mail: [email protected]).

MIT Press (http://www-mitpress.mit.edu): Cambridge. 2000. Cloth. 186 Pages. Price: £14.50. ISBN 0-262-16190-7

Received: 1 December 2001

The URL for the book is http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262161907.
The website for the biography of the author is http://www.sjcsf.edu/faculty/pesic.htm.

Table of Contents

Prelude
I The Night Watch
  1 The Hard Masters
  2 Wrestling with Proteus
II Desire and Science
  3 The Wounded Seeker
  4 The Creatures of Prometheus
  5 The New Eros and the New Atlantis
III The Great Decryption
  6 The Clue to the Labyrinth
  7 To Leave No Problem Unsolved
IV God's Spies
  8 Kepler at the Bridge
  9 Newton on the Beach
  10 Einstein in the Boat
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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