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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... experimental method are to be found in the work of Robert Grosseteste and successors through the fourteenth century.5 . The study of optics is seen to be continuous from al - Kindi to Kepler.6 Medieval statics and kinematics have ...
... experimental aspects of his work . " What may have been the real , and secret , reason for his condem- nation by the ... experimental philosophy and its relation to Hobbesian philosophy form the subject of Simon Shaffer and Steven Shapin ...
... Experiments End , brings the current preoccupation with the fine - grained activities of producing science to the historiography of physics.36 Thomas S. Kuhn's , Black Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity is a step - by- step ...
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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 |