Week6 Homework: Summary on "the outline of history by Wells" and "history of physics from Wikipedia"

Summary on "the outline of history by Wells"

The reason of writing
"the outline of history" is that Wells was very dissatis ed with the quality
of history textbooks at the end of World War I. All of these include: from
Christianity eduction to popular education; Europe begins to think for itself;
the dawn of communism; paper liberates the human mind; protestantism of
the peoples; the reawakening of science; the new growth of europe towns;
the literary and artistic renaissance; american come into history; and the
intellectual undertow. All of these are the rst comprehensive history of the
world, from the formation of the earth to Wellss day, a vibrant synthesis of
history.

Summary on "history of physics from Wikipedia"

This article describes the history of physics, where human beings try to understand the
roles of nature. It describes the development of physics from early cultures,
physics in the middle ages, early modern physics, to modern physics. West-
ern physics began with eminent Greek pre-Socratic philosophers, which leads
to the tendency of acceptance of the ideas of eminent philosophers. Scienti c
Revolution during Medieval Europe leaded to a resumption of the process
of scienti c change halted around the middle of the 14th century. From 15
century to 20 century, physics has been developed a lot. A number of new
efforts to understand the physical world arose in the last half of the twentieth
century, which generated widespread interest.

Comparison

The history of physics is a component of the outline of his-
tory. The outline of history descripts the history of science from a macro-
scopic view. However, the history of physics descripts the development of
a concrete discipline. The development of both science, from a macroscopic
view and physics, from a microscopic view is a kind of spiral type instead of
straight forward.

References

1.H. G. Wells, \The outline of history by Wells", Garden City
books.
2. \History of physics",
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History of physics