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Author | : Alex Ely Kossovsky |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-08-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030517446 |
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This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines the personal lives of six of the intellectual giants involved. It explores the profound revolution in the way of thinking, and in particular the successful refutation of the school of thought inherited from the Greeks, which focused on the perfection and immutability of the celestial world. In addition, the emergence of the scientific method and the adoption of mathematics as the central tool in scientific endeavors are discussed. The book then explores the delicate thread between pure philosophy, grand unifying theories, and verifiable real-life scientific facts. Lastly, it turns to Kepler’s crucial 3rd law and shows how it was derived from a mere six data points, corresponding to the six planets known at the time. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, the book will inform and fascinate all aficionados of science, history, philosophy, and, in particular, astronomy.
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Total Pages | : 396 |
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ISBN | : 9781610595476 |
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Author | : Andrew Gregory |
Publisher | : Icon Books Company |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
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That man ever managed to develop to 'scientific' attitude to the natural world is one of true wonders of human thought. And answering the question of where and how this attitude began can help us understand the world we live in and the science that governs it. Science began with the Greeks. But is Greek science something we would recognise today? This superbly approachable book has won many plaudits since publication late in 2001.
Author | : Michael Ben-Chaim |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351937758 |
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How did empirical research become the cornerstone of modern science? Scholars have traditionally associated empirical research with the search for knowledge, but have failed to provide adequate solutions to this basic historical problem. This book offers a different approach that focuses on human understanding - rather than knowledge - and its cultural expression in the creation and social transaction of causal explanations. Ancient Greek philosophers professed that genuine understanding of a particular subject was gained only when its nature, or essence, was defined. This ancient mode of explanation furnished the core teachings of late medieval natural philosophers, and was reaffirmed by early modern philosophers such as Bacon and Descartes. Yet during the second half of the 17th century, radical transformation gave rise to innovative research practices that were designed to explain how empirical properties of the physical world were correlated. The study unfolded in this book centres on the works of Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Isaac Newton - the most notable exponents of the 'experimental philosophy' in the late 17th century - to explore how this transformation led to the emergence of a recognizably modern culture of empirical research. Relating empirical with explanatory practices, this book offers a novel solution to one of the major problems in the history of western science and philosophy. It thereby provides a new perspective on the Scientific Revolution and the origins of modern empiricism. At the same time, this book demonstrates how historical and sociological tools can be combined to study science as an evolving institution of human understanding.
Author | : John Freely |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1468308505 |
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A physicist and historian sheds light on scientific minds, breakthroughs, and innovations that paved the way for the Scientific Revolution. Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, a conflict which ignited the Scientific Revolution and led to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. As a consequence of this narrative frame, virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a succession of scholars paved the way for the exciting discoveries usually credited to Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, and others. In Before Galileo, John Freely examines the pioneering research of the first European scientists, many of them monks whose influence ranged far beyond the walls of the monasteries where they studied and wrote.
Author | : A. Bala |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2006-11-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230601219 |
Download The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.
Author | : Michel Serres |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-01-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786606267 |
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Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational place in the development of chaos theory, representing a tour de force application of the principles underlying Serres’ distinctive philosophy of science.
Author | : Larrie D. Ferreiro |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application across the major shipbuilding nations of Europe.
Author | : Andrea Strazzoni |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-11-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3110569698 |
Download Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into account the ways in which the disciplines of logic and metaphysics became functional to the justification and reflection on the conceptual premises and the methods of natural philosophy, changing their traditional roles as art of reasoning and as science of being. This transformation took place as a result of two factors. First, logic and metaphysics (which included rational theology) were used to grant the status of indubitable knowledge of natural philosophy. Second, the debates internal to Cartesianism, as well as the emergence of alternative philosophical world-views (such as those of Hobbes, Spinoza, the experimental science and Newtonianism) progressively deprived such disciplines of their foundational function, and they started to become forms of reflection over given scientific practices, either Cartesian, experimental, or Newtonian.
Author | : James Case |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-06-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780809035786 |
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Examines the common game-theoretical strands that tie seemingly unrelated fields of competitive activities together in a study that makes sense of a new paradigm of scientific thinking that the author refers to as the emerging science of competition.