A short history of scientific thought / John Henry.
Pubblicazione:
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of boxes, figures and tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Setting the scene 2. Plato and Aristotle 3. From the Roman Empire to the Empire of Islam 4. The Western Middle Ages 5. The Renaissance 6. Nicholas Copernicus and a New World 7. New Methods of science 8. Bringing mathematics and natural philosophy together: Johannes Kepler 9. Mathematics and mechanics: Galileo Galilei 10. Practice and theory in Renaissance medicine: William Harvey and the circulation of the blood 11. The spirit of system: René Descartes and the mechanical philosophy 12. The Royal Society and experimental philosophy 13. Experiment, mathematics, and magic: Isaac Newton 14. The Newtonian enlightenment 15. The chemical revolution: Priestly and Lavoisier; John Dalton and beyond 16. Newtonian optimism: natural theology and natural order 17. The making of geology: from James Hutton to Charles Lyell 18. The history of plants and animals: successive emergence or evolution? 19. Religion and progress in Victorian Britain: Robert Chambers versus Hugh Miller 20. Bringing it all together?: Charles Darwin's evolution 21. Darwinian aftermaths: religion, social science, biology 22. Beyond Newton: energy and thermodynamics 23. Newton deposed: Einstein and relativity theory 24. Mathematics instead of a world picture: from atomism to quantum theory. Afterword. Index
