Science
Author | : Jacques Barzun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Science and civilization |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jacques Barzun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Science and civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacques Barzun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel S. Greenberg |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2003-04-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226306353 |
Greenberg explores how scientific research is funded in the United States, including why the political process distributes the funds the way it does and how it can be corrupted by special interests in academia, business, and political machines.
Author | : Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 146849063X |
Author | : Tom McLeish |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-05-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191007102 |
"Can you Count the Clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in some of the oldest stories told about human desire to understand the natural world. Drawing on stories from the modern science of chaos and uncertainty alongside medieval, patristic, classical and Biblical sources, Faith and Wisdom in Science challenges much of the current 'science and religion' debate as operating with the wrong assumptions and in the wrong space. Its narrative approach develops a natural critique of the cultural separation of sciences and humanities, suggesting an approach to science, or in its more ancient form natural philosophy - the 'love of wisdom of natural things' - that can draw on theological and cultural roots. Following the theme of pain in human confrontation with nature, it develops a 'Theology of Science', recognising that both scientific and theological worldviews must be 'of' each other, not holding separate domains. Science finds its place within an old story of participative reconciliation with a nature, of which we start ignorant and fearful, but learn to perceive and work with in wisdom. Surprisingly, science becomes a deeply religious activity. There are urgent lessons for education, the political process of decision-making on science and technology, our relationship with the global environment, and the way that both religious and secular communities alike celebrate and govern science.
Author | : Michael Murray |
Publisher | : Frederic C. Beil Publisher |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781929490417 |
This is the story of the career and ideas of one of the twentieth-century's leading intellectuals. Jacques Barzun was the author of some thirty books of biography, history, and cultural criticism, among them the best-sellers "The House of Intellect," an indictment of governmental and foundation interference with the autonomy of scholars and universities, and "From Dawn to Decadence," an argument that the West was falling into decay and incapacity.
Author | : Ralph Sanders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Research |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert McCaughey |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231537522 |
In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school's engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches with those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy League engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.
Author | : Hans R. Kricheldorf |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319303880 |
This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research! Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an iterative process (an ‘innate self-healing mechanism’): errors are committed, being checked over and over again, through which finally new findings and knowledge can arise. New ideas are often first confronted with refusal. This is so not only in real life, but also in scientific and medical research. The author outlines in this book how great ideas had to ripen over time before winning recognition and being accepted. The book showcases in an entertaining way, but without schadenfreude, that even some of the most famous discoverers may appear in completely different light, when regarding errors they have committed in their work. This book is divided into two parts. The first part creates a fundament for the discussion and understanding by introducing important concepts, terms and definitions, such as (natural) sciences and scientific research, laws of nature, paradigm shift, and progress (in science). It compares natural sciences with other scientific disciplines, such as historical research or sociology, and examines the question if scientific research can generate knowledge of permanent validity. The second part contains a collection of famous fallacies and errors from medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and geology, and how they were corrected. Readers will be astonished and intrigued what meanders had to be explored in some cases before scientists realized facts, which are today’s standard and state-of-the-art of science and technology. This is an entertaining and amusing, but also highly informative book not only for scientists and specialists, but for everybody interested in science, research, their progress, and their history!
Author | : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |