Whitehead traces the conceptual habits produced by early modern science, especially the picture of nature as matter moving under mathematical laws. He then asks how evolution, relativity, and quantum discoveries complicate that inherited framework.
The book is interpretation rather than experimental science, and readers need not accept its metaphysics to benefit from it. It remains a provocative guide to the way successful scientific models can quietly become assumptions about reality as a whole.
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