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The History and Philosophy of Science A Reader

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

11.01.2018

Herausgeber

Daniel McKaughan + weitere

Verlag

Bloomsbury

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1104

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24.4/17/5.8 cm

Gewicht

1840 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4742-3272-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

11.01.2018

Herausgeber

Verlag

Bloomsbury

Seitenzahl

1104

Maße (L/B/H)

24.4/17/5.8 cm

Gewicht

1840 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4742-3272-2

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Libri GmbH
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  • Produktbild: The History and Philosophy of Science

  • Timeline
    Introduction, Daniel J. McKaughan and Holly VandeWall

    Part I. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS
    Introduction
    Plato, Philebus
    Plato, Republic
    Plato, Timaeus
    Lucretius, On The Nature of Things
    Aristotle, Categories
    Aristotle, Posterior Analytics
    Aristotle, Physics
    Aristotle, On the Heavens
    Aristotle, Meteorology
    Aristotle, De Anima
    Aristotle, Parts of Animals
    Aristotle, Generation of Animals
    Euclid, Elements
    Apollonius, The Conics
    Ptolemy, Introduction to the Almagest
    Avicenna, De Mineralibus
    Al-Biruni, Letters to Avicenna on Aristotelian Astronomy and Physics
    Aquinas, On the Motion of the Heart
    Buridan, Questions on Aristotelian Philosophy
    Oresme, A Treatise on the Configuration of Qualities and Motions
    Suggested Readings
    Discussion Questions

    Part II. TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: MECHANICS AND ASTRONOMY
    Introduction
    Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
    Osiander, Preface to On the Revolutions
    Tycho Brahe, Preface to The Improved Mechanic Astronomy
    Kepler, Astronomia Nova
    Galileo, Message to Cosimo de'Medici
    Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
    Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two New Sciences
    Descartes, Discourse on Method
    Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
    Descartes, Le Monde
    Bacon, The New Organon
    Bacon, The New Atlantis
    Newton, Principia
    Huygens, Treatise on Light
    Newton, Opticks
    Newton, Letter to Oldenberg
    Buffon, On the Formation of the Planets
    Suggested Readings
    Discussion Questions

    Part III: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: CHEMISTRY, HEAT, AND THE UNIFICATION OF FORCES
    Introduction
    Hermes Trismegistus, The Emerald Tablet
    Paracelsus, Of the Nature of Things
    Newton, The Key and Commentary on the Emerald Tablet
    Boyle, On the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Hypothesis
    Boyle, Experimental Researches on Combustion
    Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
    Becher, Concerning the First Principle of Metals and Stones
    Stahl, Preliminaries
    Priestley, Of Dephlogisticated Air
    Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
    Young, On the Theory of Light and Colors
    Dalton, A New System of Chemical Philosophy
    Gay-Lussac, Memoir on the Combination of Gases
    Avagadro, Determining Relative Masses of Elementary Molecules
    Oersted, The Electromagnetic Effect (4 pages)
    Faraday, Lectures on Electricity and Magnetism
    Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity
    Carnot, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
    Clausius, On the Nature of the Motion We Call Heat
    Maxwell, A Dynamical Theory of the ElectroMagnetic Field
    Canizzaro, Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy
    Mendeleev, Relation between Properties and Atomic Weights
    Kelvin, On the Dynamical Theory of Heat
    Suggested Readings
    Discussion Questions

    Part IV: THE SPECIALIZATION OF NATURAL HISTORY: THE HUMAN ANIMAL, ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, AND GEOLOGY
    Introduction
    William Harvey, Concerning the Movement of the Heart and Blood
    Descartes, Treatise on Man
    Hooke, Micrographia
    Schwann, Microscopical Investigations
    Buffon, Natural History "Second Discourse"
    Buffon, On the Generation and Species of Animals
    Linnaeus, On the Increase of the Habitable Earth
    Linnaeus, Economy of Nature
    Cuvier, On the Revolutions of the Earthly Globe
    Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy
    Cuvier, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Natural History of Fishes
    Lyell, Principles of Geology
    Paley, Natural Theology
    Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population
    Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization
    Suggested Readings
    Discussion Questions

    Part V. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: DARWINISM AND ITS RECEPTION
    Introduction
    A. R. Wallace, On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart
    Darwin, The Origin of Species
    Darwin, Descent of Man
    Darwin, Variation of Plants and Animals "Pangenesis"
    Kelvin, On the Age of the Earth: Uniformity Briefly Refuted and Of Geological Dynamics
    Jenkin, Review of the Origin of the Species
    Sedgwick, Objections to Mr. Darwin's Theory
    Owen, Darwin on the Origin of Species
    Gray, Darwin and His Reviewers
    Agassiz, Methods in the Study of Natural History
    Huxley, T. H., The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species
    Suggested Readings
    Discussion Questions

    Glossary
    Index