A final story : science, myth, and beginnings /: science, myth, and beginnings. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nasser Zakariya.
• Authors: Zakariya, Nasser
• Contents: Introduction Part I 1. Varieties of Natural History: The Whole of the Natural and the Known 2. Dogmas of Unity and Questions of Expertise 3. The Many Faces of Force and the Mutability of Energy 4. Schisms Part II 5. Undoing and Reassembling Scales and Histories 6. Other Emerging Genres of Synthesis: From the Fabulaic to the Foundational 7. Humanisms, Nuclear Histories, and Nuclear Ages 8. Scientific Myth and Mysticism Part III 9. Scientific Tribes and Totalizing Myths 10. Cosmos and the Structure of 'Epic Myth' 11. Political Cosmologies 12. A New Version of Genesis Coda: Epic Humanisms Acknowledgments Notes Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 554 pages.)
• Subjects: 507.2/2; Science -- General; Science -- Historiography; Science -- Philosophy; Science -- History; Science -- Astrophysics & Space Science; History -- General; Science -- Historiography; Science -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226500737
• Related ISBNs: 022650073X; 9780226476124; 022647612X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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