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This book is a cultural history of physics, focusing on the historical relationship between physics and religion, from its origins in Pythagoreanism to modern times. The author initially intended to write about the cultural history of physics to help explain it to others.
Well my first book, which is called Pythagoras' trousers, is basically a cultural history of physics that focuses on the historical relationship between physics and religion.
— Episode: Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Lim...
Episode: Margaret Wertheim — The Grandeur and Limits of Sci...
This book is a cultural history of physics, focusing on the historical relationship between physics and religion, from its origins in Pythagoreanism to modern times. The author initially intended to write about the cultural history of physics to help explain it to others.
Well my first book, which is called Pythagoras' trousers, is basically a cultural history of physics that focuses on the historical relationship between physics and religion.
When I set out to write my book, I had no intention of writing about religion. I wanted to write a book about the cultural history of physics because I wanted to explain physics to my friends and people kept coming up to me at dinner parties and saying...