Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 829 g
Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science
Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 829 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-08718-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth - certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood era in the development of science, all too often viewed as something of a trough between the towering achievements of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the nineteenth century. Yet it was a period of notable developments; it saw the establishment of such fields as electricity and heat, the 'chemical revolution', the new science of gases, the isolation of oxygen, the nebular hypothesis in cosmology, the foundation of rational mechanics, and the birth pangs of biology, geology and psychology. It was, indeed, an age when knowledge was in ferment.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
- Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Geschichte der Chemie
Weitere Infos & Material
Part I. Philosophy and Ideas: 1. Knowledge Rom Harre; 2. Natural philosophy Simon Schaffer; 3. Social uses of science Steven Shapin; Part II. Life and its Environment: 4. Psychology G. S. Rousseau; 5. Health, disease and medical care W. F. Bynum; 6. The living world Jacques Roger; 7. The terraqueous globe Roy Porter; Part III. The Physical World: 8. Mathematics and rational mechanics H. J. M. Bos; 9. Experimental natural philosophy J. L. Heilbron; 10. Chemistry and the chemical revolution Maurice Crosland; 11. Mathematical cosmography Eric G. Forbes; 12. Science, technology and industry D. S. L. Cardwell.
