About Science Slept Sixteen Centuries – And What It Achieved When It Woke: From Greek Science to Quantum Systems by Allan Karson:
Science Slept Sixteen Centuries is a book for the reader who wants to learn what physics is all about – and for the person who has taken a few physics courses in high school, but wants to learn more about its diverse theories and historical development.Even if you have taken college-level physics courses, you might not necessarily know the fascinating history of physics development, and the backgrounds of physicists who contributed to that development, such as Kepler, Newton, the Bernoulli family, Planck, Bohr, Einstein, von Neumann and Oppenheimer, to name only a few.And of course, if you want to learn why world civilization still suffers from a hiatus in the advancement of science in general — and physics in particular – this is the book for you.In 2006, Allan Karson received enthusiastic feedback for his book idea, and was told that Science Slept Sixteen Centuries is a book that is very much needed. Now, 10 years later, this work is finally ready.- This book is written for intelligent, inquiring people; it does not talk down to them.- This book is exciting. Each chapter presents a different historical time period and a different physics discipline. This changing environment presents a continuing challenge. There are no long, non-factual, non-interesting or dull descriptions.- This book keeps the quantity of math equations to a minimum. Only one equation is presented and explained in detail: Einstein’s fascinating equation that transforms how people, objects and clocks appear to change when they are moving at speeds that approach the speed of light.- There are no ‘heavy’ descriptions of physics theories; charts are used to provide supporting explanations and description points in charts usually consist of one-liners.- This book’s sources have been scrupulously read to assure correct and complete details.Dive in to the mesmerizing world of the history and future of physics with Science Slept Sixteen Centuries.
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Author Bio:
The Author of “Science Slept Sixteen Centuries”, Allan Karson
I earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1951 and a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1956, also in Electrical Engineering. While working for my E.E. degree, I took many courses in physics, preparing for the advanced types of systems I planned to work on.
I entered the electronics industry in 1951 and was always at the type of corporation that spurred the United States’ and the world’s growth in electronic systems in the last half of the Twentieth Century. Within only a few years, I attained high-level technical/executive positions in the electronic technology-based corporations, working on such systems as U.S. Navy Sonar systems and the expanding civilian air traffic control systems.
I often had the responsibility for the development of worldwide computer-based communication message systems. These were for a wide range of applications for the U.S. Navy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon.
Another example of my technical leadership is when I was Technical Director of one of the world’s largest telecommunication networks, known as SITA, then based in Paris, France, that supports the world’s international airlines.
In 2000 I left the technical industry to concentrate on learning more about the world of physics—to the point where my occupation has been “physics writer.” I achieved this by studying books written by physicists that described their theories, plus scientific biographies of physicists and mathematicians. A list of some of those books is located at the end of this book under the title, Sources: Physics, Mathematics and Cosmology.
I continue this physics self-study program by continuing to read books of the genre described above.