How Long to Read A Short History of Science

How Long Does it Take to Read A Short History of Science?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 25 minutes to read A Short History of Science by William Sedgwick

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The present book, while in part a revision of Sedgwick and Tyler's Short History of Science, is to a great extent new. Like the earlier work, it is the outgrowth of a course of lectures given for a number of years to undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Doctor Sedgwick having died some years after the publication of the first edition, the surviving author undertook the preparation of a revised edition and invited R. P. Bigelow, who had taken part in the lecture course, to share the editorial responsibility in cooperation with colleagues verse in other fields. The intervening years have heightened the appreciation of the enormous difficulty of the undertaking. On the other hand, the increased interest in the subject, as exemplified in college orientation courses, and the absence of a text book of similar scope and aim have seemed to justify a second edition. The editors have deliberately abstained from any attempt to bring the history up to date in such matters as the new mathematical physics and the advances in the chemical and biological sciences characteristic of thetwentieth century, since the available literature on these topics is abundant, and it may be doubted if they are not stil too close to our generation for a just historical perspective. BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCE A history of science might be based on some more or less logical system of definitions and classification. Such systems and such points of view belong to relatively recent and mature periods. Science has grown without much self-consciousness as to how it is defined, without any great concern as to the distinction between pure and applied science, or as to the boundaries between the different sciences. The periods at which primitive man of different races began to have conscious appreciation of the phenomena of nature, of number, magnitude, and geometric forms can never be known, nor the time at which their elementary notions began to be so classified and associated as to deserve the name of science. Very early in any civilization, however, there must obviously have been developed simple processes of counting and adding, of time and distance measurement, of the geometry and arithmetic involved in land measurement and in architectural design and construction. PRIMITIVE COUNTING AND NUMBER SYSTEMS There is no language without some numerals, though in extreme cases the range may be merely one, two, many (i.e., more-than two); and for most of us such a word as million is nearly equivalent to an innumerable multitude. The process of counting is naturally facilitated by the use of fingers and toes as counters, their number 10 being the well-known anatomical basis for our decimal number system.

How long is A Short History of Science?

A Short History of Science by William Sedgwick is 548 pages long, and a total of 141,384 words.

This makes it 185% the length of the average book. It also has 173% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Short History of Science Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 52 minutes to read A Short History of Science aloud.

What Reading Level is A Short History of Science?

A Short History of Science is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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