Simon SchusterProduct DescriptionA brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argumentthat the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines despite their very different beginnings have been coming together over the past 150 years converging and coalescing. Intimate connections have been discovered between physics and chemistry psychology and biology genetics and linguistics. In this groundbreaking book Peter Watson identifies one extraordinary master narrative capturing how the sciences are slowly resolving into one overwhelming interlocking story about the universe.
Watson begins his narrative in the 1850s the decade when he argues the convergence of the sciences began. The idea of the conservation of energy was introduced in this decade as was Darwins theory of evolutionboth of which rocketed the sciences forward and revealed unimagined interconnections and overlaps between disciplines. The story then proceeds from each major breakthrough and major scientist to the next