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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... never in- tended to be exhaustive , even of the resources available to scholars in 1960. It pretends to be no more than a critical account of writings that I had found most suggestive in com- posing the book . That modest purpose would ...
... Never at Rest . 18 New- ton's unpublished correspondence and mathematical papers are now available in two complementary and splendid edi- tions.19 In addition , I. Bernard Cohen has written a history of the production of the Principia ...
... never lived . It is different with science , even the greatest sci- ence . The planets would still move subject to the inverse- square law of gravity if Newton had fulfilled predictions at his premature birth and died in infancy ...
... never wanted our political or social systems , our religions or philosophies , our arts or letters . Beginning with the Japanese , they have wanted sci- ence , and they can acquire it and operate it as well as we do in order to liberate ...
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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 |