Clearly written and well illustrated the book first places the scientist-philosophers in the
limelight as we learn how their great scientific discoveries forced them to reconsider the
time-honored notions with which science had described the natural world. Then the book
explains that what we understand by nature and science have undergone fundamental conceptual
changes as a result of the discoveries of electromagnetism thermodynamics and atomic
structure. The author concludes that the dance between science and philosophy is an
evolutionary process which will keep them forever entwined.
