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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... relation to Hobbesian philosophy form the subject of Simon Shaffer and Steven Shapin . Leviathan and the Air Pump : Hobbes , Boyle , and the Experimental Life . Erudition and its con- ceptual transformation is the theme of Peter R ...
... relation of scientists to the state in mod- ern times has been one of partnership rather than partisan- ship , whether for or against programs of particular political parties . In my view , this consideration is further evidence that ...
... relations between physiology and medicine , and to the background of genetics and molec- ular biology.31 The opening paragraphs of the chapter on nineteenth - cen- tury physics deplore the paucity of the secondary literature . That ...
... Years : Writings , 1900-1909 ( Princeton : Princeton Uni- versity Press , 1989 ) . 39 Daniel J. Kevles , The Physicists ( New York : Knopf , 1978 ) . tions and its relation to society . Preoccupation with institu- - [ xx ] -
An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas Charles Coulston Gillispie. tions and its relation to society ... relations . In my view , instances of this tendency that amount to a kind of sociopolitical reductionism may go too far . It ...
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 |