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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... sense recapitulated , and its psychological reality thus confirmed , by the tendency among cultural radicals in the 1970s to see science not as a liberation from ignorance and superstition , but as a force set against humanity , a ...
... sense that science pertains histori- cally to progressivism , while telling against conservatism and tradition , is widely shared . The notion does have a sociologi- cal foundation , but there is no basis for it either in political ...
An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas Charles Coulston Gillispie. makes as much sense to say , " Magic works , " as it does to say , " Science works . " The statement is one that might be sub- scribed to in a current school of ...
... sense of drama — the personal element that went into the original formulation makes no difference to the practice of workaday science once it has left the hand of its creator , which is immediately . The personalities of science are ...
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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 |