Interested in philosophy and science?
How about reading for "A brief history of time" or "Galileo's daughter"?
Information of the book (1988 edition) is provided here.
Here is my page-to-page summary after reading the book.
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Paul's remarks: Built upon the success of Newton’s theory of gravity, Laplace proposed the notion of determinism which went further to include not only totally predictable motion but also human behavior. This notion threw part of the religious world toward atheism. It is not until quantum mechanics, or the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in 1926 in particular, that turned this scenario around back to theism. Even the Nobel laureate of photoelectric effect couldn’t believe this turn, leading him (Einstein) to say “God does not play dice.”
Information of the book (2000 edition) is provided here.
Here is my page-to-page summary after reading the book.
Paul's remarks: Galileo’s astronomical discovery was appreciated by Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII. But Galileo’s publication of the work on the heliocentrism hypothesis was delayed until a time after the Thirty Years’ War broke out. Religiously and politically, Urban had no choice but to condemn Galileo’s work in 1623 amid Counter-reformation. Galileo’s philosophy was finally endorsed by Pope John Paul II in 1992, 350 years after the condemnation.
