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Download 35.37 MB They re there hidden in the world of atom, occupying your cells, dancing along the helical twists and turns of your DNA, and entangled in the ghost in the machine inside your brains. You ll find them haunting the laws of thermodynamics, the mystical shiver of Einstein s Theory of Relativity, frolicking across the first microchips, and reaching across the Cosmos. When Mexican-American historian of science and technology Dr Jimena Canales, author of Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, went looking, she found them lurking everywhere. But Science s demons are not the supernatural souls of religion. They re a visceral portal into the under-acknowledged power of the imagination in the scientific process. ....
Book World: The shadowy spirits that helped scientists advance their ideas Jess Keiser, The Washington Post Dec. 24, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science By Jimena Canales - - - A demon was present at the birth of science. Writing in the mid-17th century, the French philosopher René Descartes realized that in order to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last, he first needed to lash himself to a single point of certainty in a roiling sea of doubt. To test the strength of his position, Descartes imagined the workings of an evil entity - a malignum genium, or evil genius - capable of creating an entirely illusory but completely convincing artificial world. Someone ensnared by Descartes malevolent being is bound to question external reality - and even their own body - since, theoretically, the sky s color or the warmth of one s skin could be deceptions devised by this de ....