Essays and reviews in history and history of science / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Pubblicazione:
Philadelphia : American philosophical society, c2007.
Descrizione fisica:
XIX, 424 p. ; 26 cm
Serie:
Transactions of the American philosophical society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, 0065-9746 ; 96.5
Contiene:
Indice: Prefatory note and acknowledgments. Introduction: A professional life in the history of science. Pt. 1. Early papers: 1. Physik and philosophy 2. English ideas of the university in the 19th century 3. The formation of Lamarck's evolutionary theory. Pt. 2. French science: 4. The discovery of the Leblanc process 5. The natural history of industry 6. The Encyclopédie and the Jacobin philosophy of science: a study in ideas and consequences 7. Palisot de Beauvois on the Americans. Pt. 3. General: 8. Science and the literary imagination: Voltaire and Goethe 9. The Neesima lectures 1: the coming of age of American science (1910-1970) 10. The Neesima lectures 2: the flourishing of French science (1770-1830) 11. Science in the eye of the Beholder (1789-1820). Pt. 4. Historians and historians of science: 12. The work of Elie Havély: a critical appreciation 13. Alexandre Koyré 14. E.J. Dijksterhuis: Mechanization of the world picture 15. Shmuel Sambursky: a physicist looks at Greek science 16. Salomon Bochner as historians of mathematics and science 17. Thomas S. Kuhn: the nature of science. Pt. 5. Science and society: 18. Mertonian theses 19. Remarks on social selection as a factor in the progressivism of science 20. Social science and probalistic analysis in physics. Conclusion: l'envoi. Appendix: other works by the author. Index
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