The Edge of Objectivity: An Essay in the History of Scientific IdeasFrom Galileo's analysis of motion to the theories of evolution and relativity, Charles Gillispie takes us on a masterly tour of the world of scientific ideas. The history of modern science is portrayed here as the development of objectivity through the study of nature. |
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... to art history , for example , or ( as I suggested at the time ) to philosophy of science . An im- portant literature already existed , of course , going back to the eighteenth and even to the seventeenth centuries . In - [ x ] —
... course , and their limitations . Only in the time when this book was being written had scholars begun to incorporate the subject into the discipline of professional historiography , and only in the 1950s were formal courses of ...
... course , to natural history , ecology , or organismic biology ) . In these respects , its position was identical with that of the Far Right in Weimar Germany.23 This instance of an emotional touching of the extremes compounds the ...
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Contents
FULL CIRCLE | 1 |
ART LIFE AND EXPERIMENT | 52 |
THE NEW PHILOSOPHY | 81 |
NEWTON WITH HIS PRISM AND SILENT FACE | 115 |
SCIENCE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT | 149 |
THE RATIONALIZATION OF MATTER | 200 |
THE HISTORY OF NATURE | 258 |
BIOLOGY COMES OF AGE | 301 |
EARLY ENERGETICS | 350 |
FIELD PHYSICS | 404 |
EPILOGUE | 491 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY | 519 |
INDEX | 543 |