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Author : Stillman Drake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution written by Stillman Drake and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stillman Drake
Publisher : Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution written by Stillman Drake and published by Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are used to show how his scientific method--based on a search not for causes but for laws--was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics. His methodology had a definitive impact on the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy.
Author : John Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137079045
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science written by John Henry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections revised and extended, to take into account the latest scholarship and research and new developments in historiography.
Author : Christopher B. Kaiser
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004474110
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr written by Christopher B. Kaiser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume documents the role of creational theology in discussions of natural philosophy, medicine and technology from the Hellenistic period to the early twentieth century. Four principal themes are the comprehensibility of the world, the unity of heaven and earth, the relative autonomy of nature, and the ministry of healing. Successive chapters focus on Greco-Roman science, medieval Aristotelianism, early modern science, the heritage of Isaac Newton, and post-Newtonian mechanics. The volume will interest historians of science and historians of the idea of creation. It simultaneously details the persistence of tradition and the emergence of modernity and provides the historical background for later discussions of creation and evolution.
Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639848X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Revolution written by Steven Shapin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226707172
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book On Sunspots written by Galileo Galilei and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun. Galileo, on the other hand, countered that the spots were on or near the surface of the Sun itself, and he supported his position with a series of meticulous observations and mathematical demonstrations that eventually convinced even his rival. On Sunspots collects the correspondence that constituted the public debate, including the first English translation of Scheiner’s two tracts as well as Galileo’s three letters, which have previously appeared only in abridged form. In addition, Albert Van Helden and Eileen Reeves have supplemented the correspondence with lengthy introductions, extensive notes, and a bibliography. The result will become the standard work on the subject, essential for students and historians of astronomy, the telescope, and early modern Catholicism.
Author : Renée Raphael
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421771
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Reading Galileo written by Renée Raphael and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did early modern scientists interpret Galileo’s influential Two New Sciences? In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the foundations of mechanical engineering and physics, this book is often depicted as the definitive expression of Galileo’s purportedly modern scientific agenda. In Reading Galileo, Renée Raphael offers a new interpretation of Two New Sciences which argues instead that the work embodied no such coherent canonical vision. Raphael alleges that it was written—and originally read—as the eclectic product of the types of discursive textual analysis and meandering descriptive practices Galileo professed to reject in favor of more qualitative scholarship. Focusing on annotations period readers left in the margins of extant copies and on the notes and teaching materials of seventeenth-century university professors whose lessons were influenced by Galileo’s text, Raphael explores the ways in which a range of early-modern readers, from ordinary natural philosophers to well-known savants, responded to Galileo. She highlights the contrast between the practices of Galileo’s actual readers, who followed more traditional, “bookish” scholarly methods, and their image, constructed by Galileo and later historians, as “modern” mathematical experimenters. Two New Sciences has not previously been the subject of such rigorous attention and analysis. Reading Galileo considerably changes our understanding of Galileo’s important work while offering a well-executed case study in the reception of an early-modern scientific classic. This important text will be of interest to a wide range of historians—of science, of scholarly practices and the book, and of early-modern intellectual and cultural history.
Author : Jr. James Reston
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587982514
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Galileo written by Jr. James Reston and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful narrative and spiritive rendition of the life of Galileo.
Author : Peter Machamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825666
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Galileo written by Peter Machamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the church. It will be of interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies.
Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199655987
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Galileo written by J. L. Heilbron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heilbron takes in the landscape of culture, learning, religion, science, theology, and politics of late Renaissance Italy to produce a richer and more rounded view of Galileo, his scientific thinking, and the company he kept.
Author : Tucker McElroy
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109210
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book A to Z of Mathematicians written by Tucker McElroy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than 150 mathematicians from around the world who made important contributions to their field, including Rene Descartes, Emily Noether and Bernhard Riemann.
Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779654
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Galileo's Daughter written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the scientist through the surviving letters of his illegitimate daughter Maria Celeste, who wrote him from the Florence convent where she lived from the age of thirteen.
Author : Trevor H. Levere
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940091878X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences written by Trevor H. Levere and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance physics and natural philosophy; and so he should not be surprised in this volume to see emphases and methods congenial to him, even on topics as remote as Darwin or the chemical revolution. Therein lies whatever unity the discerning reader may find in this book, beyond the natural focus and coherence of the largest section, on Galileo, and the final section on Drake's collection of books, a major and now accessible resource for research in the field that he has made his own. We have chosen, as the occasion for presenting the volume to Stillman Drake, Galileo's birthday; Galileo has had more than one birthday party in Toronto since Drake came to the University of Toronto. As for the title, it reflects a shared conviction that experiment is the key to science; it is what scientists do. Drake has already asserted that emphasis in the title of his magisterial Galileo at Work, and we echo it here. Those who have had the privilege and pleasure of working and arguing with Stillman over the years know his tenacity, penetration, and vigour. They also know his generosity and humility. We owe him much.
Author : Dusan I. Bjelic
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791458815
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Galileo's Pendulum written by Dusan I. Bjelic and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.
Author : Gregorio Baldin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030414140
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Hobbes and Galileo: Method, Matter and the Science of Motion written by Gregorio Baldin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, translated from Italian, discusses the influence of Galileo on Hobbes’ natural philosophy. In his De motu, loco et tempore or Anti-White (~ 1643), Thomas Hobbes describes Galileo as “the greatest philosopher of all times”, and in De Corpore (1655), the Italian scientist is presented as the one who “opened the door of all physics, that is, the nature of motion.” The book gives a detailed analysis of Galileo’s legacy in Hobbes’s philosophy, exploring four main issues: a comparison between Hobbes’ and Mersenne’s natural philosophies, the Galilean Principles of Hobbes’ philosophical system, a comparison between Galileo’s momentum and Hobbes’s conatus , and Hobbes’ and Galileo’s theories of matter. The book also analyses the role played by Marin Mersenne, in spreading Galileo’s ideas in France, and as a discussant of Hobbes. It highlights the many aspects of Hobbes’ relationship with Galileo: the methodological and epistemological elements, but also the conceptual and the lexical analogies in the field of physics, to arrive, finally, at a close comparison on the subject of the matter. From this analysis emerges a shared mechanical conception of the universe open and infinite, that replaces the Aristotelian cosmos, and which is populated by two elements only: matter and motion.
Author : Alfred W. Crosby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639903
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Measure of Reality written by Alfred W. Crosby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book discusses the shift to quantitative perception which made modern science, technology, business practice and bureaucracy possible.
Author : Peter Damerow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475739923
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics written by Peter Damerow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.
