Idées de génies

Everyone knows Schrödinger’s cat, at once “dead and alive,” but who has actually read the text in which it became the hero of a diabolical thought experiment? This anthology brings physics vividly to life through 33 texts, each presenting an idea that shaped the history of Western physics from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, revealing science as a thoroughly human adventure of debate, passion and flashes of genius.