{"product_id":"the-earth","title":"The Earth","description":"Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years  existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high  school student is expected to grasp. But humanity's struggle towards  these scientific truths lasted millennia. Few of us have more than the  faintest notion of the path we have travelled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hubert Krivine  tells the story of the thinkers and scientists whose work allowed our  species to put an age to the planet and pinpoint our place in the solar  system. It is a history of bold innovators, with a broad cast of  contributors - not only Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, but Halley,  Kelvin, Darwin and Rutherford, among many others. Courage, iniquity,  religious dogmatism, genius and blind luck all played a part.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  This was an epic struggle to free the mind from the constraints of cant,  ideology and superstition. From this history, Krivine delineates an  invaluable philosophy of science, one today under threat from  irrationalism and the fundamentalist movements of East and West, which  threaten both what we have attained at great cost and what we still have  to learn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Scientific progress is not a sufficient condition for  social progress; but it is a necessary one. The Earth is not merely a  history of scientific learning, but a stirring defence of Enlightenment  values in the quest for human advancement.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53936863543634,"sku":"9781781687994","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_985094ae-9178-47a7-8700-968d117e8b29.jpg?v=1783334948","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-earth","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}