Ferris, T: Science of Liberty
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In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris?"the best popular science writer in the English language today" (Christian Science Monitor)?makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris argues that just as the scientific revolution rescued billions from poverty, fear, hunger, and disease, the Enlight-enment values it inspired has swelled the number of persons living in free and democratic societies from less than 1 percent of the world population four centuries ago to more than a third today.
Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair. The New York Times Book Review In The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferriscalled the best popular science writer in the English language today by the Christian Science Monitor and the best science writer of his generation by the Washington Postmakes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. In the grand tradition of such luminaries of the field as Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, and Oliver Sacksas well as his own The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky WayFerris has written a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy and transformed todays world.
Ferris is a master analogist who conveys his insights on the history of cosmology with a lyrical flair. The New York Times Book Review In The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferriscalled the best popular science writer in the English language today by the Christian Science Monitor and the best science writer of his generation by the Washington Postmakes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. In the grand tradition of such luminaries of the field as Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, and Oliver Sacksas well as his own The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky WayFerris has written a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy and transformed todays world.