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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... Mechanics in the Middle Ages ( Madison : University of Wiscon- sin Press , 1959 ) ; Edward Grant , Much Ado About Nothing : Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution ( New York : Cambridge University ...
... Mechanics in Nineteenth - Century German Biology ( Dordrecht and Boston : Reidel , 1982 ) ; John E. Lesch , Science and Medicine in France : The Emergence of Experimental Physiology , 1790-1855 ( Cambridge , Massachusetts : Harvard ...
... mechanics took its departure.37 Finally , Abraham Pais has contributed a physicist's biography of Ein- stein , the publication of whose papers is at very long last un- der way.38 That an excellent history of the science in America ...
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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 |