Aventurero idealista

Nos dice Boorstin que la cultura occidental ha conocido tres grandes épocas de investigación. En la primera el ser humano buscó la respuesta a sus interrogantes más vitales en un dios que le hablaba desde arriba (Moisés, Isaías, o el autor del libro de Job), o en el pensamiento filosófico que nacía de su reflexión interior (Sócrates, Platón, Aristóteles). Vino luego una segunda época de búsqueda basada en la experiencia (Bacon, Descartes) y en el liberalismo (Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson). Finalmente, la tercera, asentada en los pilares de las ciencias sociales, alumbró hombres...

Manuel Álvarez Tardío y Roberto Villa García, dos historiadores españoles de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, son los autores de un libro que cambiará nuestra perspectiva de las elecciones de febrero de 1936, que dieron la victoria al Frente Popular, describiendo y demostrando la existencia de fraude electoral y el ambiente de extrema violencia que imperó en los meses anteriores y posteriores. Un libro que causará polémica y debates encendidos.

This is the second of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford’s scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues. Volume two, first published in 1963, includes the papers published by Rutherford when professor of Physics at Manchester, 1907 to 1919. While the work of his laboratory ranged over the whole field of radioactivity, he himself devoted much effort to questions concerning the nature and properties of the α particle....

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