From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons

2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-60818-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 1104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Volume I introduces the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is ancient Mesopotamia, classical Antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English translation, it concentrates on ways of thinking and actual argumentation and not just on results and mistakes; questions of validity are primarily dealt with in the perspective of the time of the writing, not on that of the 21st century. The work is of great interest to historians of science and culture, students as well as seasoned workers – but also for amateurs willing to invest the necessary serious efforts.
 
Volume II introduces the history of scientific thought (including social and human science) and covers the Latin Middle Ages, the Renaissance period, and the 17th century. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English translation, it concentrates on ways of thinking and actual argumentation and not just on results and mistakes; questions of validity are primarily dealt with in the perspective of the time of the writing, not on that of the 21st century. The work is of great interest to historians of science and culture, students as well as seasoned workers – but also for amateurs willing to invest the necessary serious efforts.
 
Volume III introduces the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English translation, it concentrates on ways of thinking and actual argumentation and not just on results and mistakes; questions of validity are primarily dealt with in the perspective of the time of the writing, not on that of the 21st century. The work is of great interest to historians of science and culture, students as well as seasoned workers – but also for amateurs willing to invest the necessary serious efforts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Høyrup, Jens

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I.- Dedication.- Chapter 1. Introductory Observations.- Chapter 2. “Before Philosophy”: Ancient Mesopotamia.- Chapter 3. Classical Antiquity.- Chapter 4. The Islamic Middle Ages.- Index.- Volume II.- Dedication.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Volume II.- Chapter 2. The Latin Middle Ages.- Chapter 3. 1400 To 1600 – Renaissance and Otherwise.- Chapter 4. The 17th Century: Time of Reaping, Time of Sowing.- Index.- Volume III.- Dedication.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Volume III.- Chapter 2. The 18th Century and the Enlightenment.- Chapter 3. 1400 To 1600 – The 19th Century.- Chapter 4. A Brief Postlude.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jens Høyrup (*1943): educated as a physicist at Copenhagen University. From 1971 to 1973 he taught physics in an engineering school, and from 1973 onward he taught first in the domain of social, then human sciences, at Roskilde University, Denmark, until he retired in 2005. From 1995 until retirement he taught a course of general history of science and guided student projects broadly within this field. Much of his research has dealt with the conceptual, cultural and social history of pre-Modern mathematics.