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Author : Edgar William Morse
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Natural Philosophy, Hypotheses, and Impiety written by Edgar William Morse and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Cahan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520914090
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science written by David Cahan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-12 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science and mathematics, and aesthetic thought. During the late nineteenth century, Helmholtz was revered as a scientist-sage—much like Albert Einstein in this century. David Cahan has assembled an outstanding group of European and North American historians of science and philosophy for this intellectual biography of Helmholtz, the first ever to critically assess both his published and unpublished writings. It represents a significant contribution not only to Helmholtz scholarship but also to the history of nineteenth-century science and philosophy in general.
Author : Xiang Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401141959
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Instrumental Traditions and Theories of Light written by Xiang Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the optical revolution in the context of early 19th century Britain. Far from merely involving the replacement of one optical theory by another, the revolution also involved substantial changes in instruments and the practices that surrounded them. People's judgements about classification, explanation and evaluation were affected by the way they used such optical instruments as spectroscopes, telescopes, polarisers, photometers, gratings, prisms and apertures. There were two instrumental traditions in this historical period, each of which nurtured a body of practice that exemplified how optical instruments should be operated, and especially how the eye should be used. These traditions functioned just like paradigms, shaping perspectives and even world views. Readership: Scholars and graduate students in the history of science, history of instrument, philosophy of science and science studies. Can also be used as a textbook in graduate courses on 19th century physics.
Author : Michael J. Crowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486145018
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900 written by Michael J. Crowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed, scholarly study examines the ideas that developed between 1750 and 1900 regarding the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life, including those of Kant, Herschel, Voltaire, Lowell, many others. 16 illustrations.
Author : N. Kipnis
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3034886527
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book History of the Principle of Interference of Light written by N. Kipnis and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy between the wave theory and the emission theory of light early in the nineteenth century has been a subject of numerous studies. Yet many is sues remain unclear, in particular, the reasons for rejecting Young's theory of light. It appears that further progress in the field requires a better grasp of the overall situation in optics and related subjects at the time and a more thorough study of every factor suggested to be of importance for the dispute. This book is intended to be a step in this direction. It examines the impact of the concept of interference of light on the development of the early nineteenth century optics in general, and the theory of light, in particular. This is not a his tory of the wave theory of light, nor is it a history of the debate on the nature of light in general: it covers only that part of the controversy which involved the concept of interference. Although the book deals with a number of scientists, scientific institutions, and journals, its main character is a scientific concept, the principle of interference. While discussing the reasons for accepting or rejecting this concept I have primarily focused on scientific factors, although in some cases the human factor is examined as well. The book is a revised Ph. D. dissertation (University of Minnesota, 1984) writ ten under Alan E. Shapiro.
Author : Elizabeth Green Musselman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482065
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Nervous Conditions written by Elizabeth Green Musselman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers—including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others—Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important part in the sciences' movement to the center of modern life, and how a scientific community and a nation struggled their way into existence. Many of these natural philosophers endured serious nervous difficulties, particularly vision problems. They turned these weaknesses into strengths, however, by claiming that their well-disciplined mental skills enabled them to transcend their bodily frailties. Their adeptness at transcendence, they asserted, explained why men of science belonged at the heart of modern life, and qualified them to address such problems as unifying the British provinces into one nation, managing the industrial workplace, and accommodating religious plurality.
Author : Thomas L. Hankins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864119
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Instruments and the Imagination written by Thomas L. Hankins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : G. N. Cantor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009389
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Optics After Newton written by G. N. Cantor and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book Natural Philosophy ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Naum S. Kipnis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book History of the Principle of Interference written by Naum S. Kipnis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alistair Cameron Crombie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Science written by Alistair Cameron Crombie and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of literature and research in the history of science, medicine and technology in its intellectual and social context.
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Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Author : Charles Coulston Gillispie
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Scientific Biography written by Charles Coulston Gillispie and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library under the title Complete dictionary of scientific biography.
Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Dufour Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Science and Society in Ireland written by Peter J. Bowler and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hume
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Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design - for which Hume uses a house - and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (Argument from evil)
Author : Stephen Clucas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040233589
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by Stephen Clucas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Stephen Clucas's articles addresses the complex interactions between religion, natural philosophy and magic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. The essays on the Elizabethan mathematician and magus John Dee show that the angelic conversations of John Dee owed a significant debt to medieval magical traditions and how Dee's attempts to communicate with spirits were used to serve specific religious agendas in the mid-seventeenth century. The essays devoted to Giordano Bruno offer a reappraisal of the magical orientation of the Italian philosopher's mnemotechnical and Lullist writings of the 1580s and 90s and show his influence on early seventeenth-century English understandings of memory and intellection. Next come three studies on the atomistic or corpuscularian natural philosophy of the Northumberland and Cavendish circles, arguing that there was a distinct English corpuscularian tradition prior to the Gassendian influence in the 1640s and 50s. Finally, two essays on the seventeenth-century Intelligencer Samuel Hartlib and his correspondents shows how religion alchemy and natural philosophy interacted during the 'Puritan Revolution'.
Author : Alan C. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400567
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Astronomy written by Alan C. Bowen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
