Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
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Author | : Russell McCormmach |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1400870178 |
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences is a continuing series of volumes comprising articles that elucidate the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. The articles offered in Volume 5 share a common theme: a concern with modern physics and its relation to other scientific disciplines and to its cultural and material context. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biology |
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Author | : Arne Hessenbruch |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 986 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134263015 |
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author | : R. McCormmach |
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Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : P. Forman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2001-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781402002502 |
To some philosophers, seeking to understand the human condition, technology is a necessary guide. But to think through the complex human phenomenon of technology we must tackle philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, moral issues, comparative civilizational studies, and the economics of specific industrial and military technologies in their historical contexts. The philoso pher wants to grasp the technological factor in this troubled world, even as we see it is only one factor, and that it does not speak openly for itself. Put directly, our human troubles to a considerable extent have been transformed, exaggerated, distorted, even degraded, perhaps transcended, by what engi neers and scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians, have wrought. But our problems are ancient, problems of dominations, struggles, survival, values in conflict, greed and insane sadisms. To get some conceptual light on the social reality which seems immediately to be so complicated, a philosopher will need to learn from the historians of technology. A few years ago, the philosopher Elisabeth Straker concluded that "a his torical philosophy of technology [is required] since history - and history alone - provides all those concepts that form part of the repertoire of the philosoph ical analysis of technology". And she added that this goes far beyond the triviality that like other cultural achievements technology has its historical development. Now historical comprehension is no substitute for a logical methodology in the analysis of technological problems.
Author | : Lillian Hoddeson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2004-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521541176 |
This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.
Author | : Russell McCormmach |
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Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780812276305 |
Author | : Russell McCormmach |
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Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1971 |
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ISBN | : 9780812276466 |
Author | : Russell McCormmach |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2017-03-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1400886392 |
This sixth volume of Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences presents articles by ten eminent scholars on the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. CONTENTS The Emergence of Japan's First Physicists: 1868-1900 (Kenkichiro Koizumi) The Reception of the Wave Theory of Light in Britain: A Case Study Illustrating the Role of Methodology in Scientific Debate (Geoffrey Cantor) Origins and Consolidation of Field Theory in Nineteenth Century Britain: From the Mechanical to the Electromagnetic View of Nature (Barbara Giusti Doran) Hertz's Researches on Electromagnetic Waves (Salvo D'Agostino) God and Nature: Priestley's Way of Rational Dissent (J. G. McEvoy and J. E. McGuire) Laurent, Gerhardt, and the Philosophy of Chemistry (John Hedley Brooke) The Lewis-Langrnuir Theory of Valence and the Chemical Community, 1920-1928 (Robert E. Kohler, Jr.) G. N. Lewis on Detailed Balancing, the Symmetry of Time, and the Nature of Light (Roger H. Stuewer) Rutherford and Recoil Atoms: The Metamorphosis and Success of a Once Stillborn Theory (Thaddeus J. Trenn) Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.