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Waking from Newton's Sleep

Author : James W. Jones
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725243636
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Waking from Newton's Sleep written by James W. Jones and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must religion and science conflict? Can a man of science find a spiritual path? Meet Tim, a chemical engineer, who gradually finds his exclusive reliance on science being called into question by the events of his life, by his dreams, and by discussions with his coworker Matt and Matt's wife June. Their conversations probe, debate, and explore whether science alone is sufficient to explain everything, how science and religion might coexist, whether science might lead toward a spiritual path, and what sort of spirituality might be both life-transforming and congruent with modern science. Tim struggles, resists, and, in spite of himself, finds his viewpoint slowly changing. Tim's story illustrates the finding of a spiritual path in a scientific age, not through a drastic crisis but rather through a gradual process of becoming open to new experiences and rethinking old assumptions.

Newton’s Scientific and Philosophical Legacy

Author : Paul B. Scheurer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400928092
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Newton’s Scientific and Philosophical Legacy written by Paul B. Scheurer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Colloqui um "Newton's Scientific and Philosophical Legacy", that was held at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) from June 9th to 12th 1987 to celebrate the Tercentenary of the publication of Newton's Philo sophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1667). Although 1987 was a busy year for Newton scholars, we were happy that five of most prom inent among them were able to come to Nijmegen and speak on the vari ous aspects of Newton's thought. They are the Professors I. Bernard Cohen (Harvard), Gale Christianson (Indiana State), B.J. Dobbs (Northwestern), Richard H. Popkin (UCLA) and Mordechai Feingold (Boston University). No doubt, recent scholarship has put Newton's genius in a quite different perspective from the one that had come to make up what may be called Newtonian mythology. Although his achievements in the areas of mechanics, mathematics, and optics remain indisputed, Newton's scientific efforts were apparently entirely subordi nate to his religious beliefs. This volume has been divided into four parts, preceded by a Pream ble in which Prof. Christianson offers a vivid portrait of Newton as a per son. The first part deals with the science of Newton as he himself under stood that term. The second part considers the influence of Newton's work on later scientific developments. The third part deals primarily with the question of the methodological influence of Newton, and the last part with his more philosophical legacy. Two editorial remarks are due.

The Reenchantment of Science

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438404875
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Reenchantment of Science written by David Ray Griffin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-05-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science. David Ray Griffin gives voice to a revisionary postmodernism, based on the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne that contrasts with the relativistic, nihilistic postmodernism of Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein. The book brings together some of today's most creative thinking about science. Griffin's introductory essay summarizes the way in which the mechanistic view led to the disenchantment of science and the various reasons for the reversal of this process in our time. The essays on physics, cosmology, biology, ecology, psychosomatic medicine and parapsychology bring out the various dimensions of the reenchantment of science: the replacement of modern dualism and reductionism with an ecological, organismic paradigm; the priority of internal relations to external; the casal power of experience; the presence of experience, purpose, and intrinsic value throughout nature; influence at a distance; the laws of nature as habits; the presence of a divine whole in all the parts; and the history of the universe as a self-creative, meaningful story. This book gives a powerful voice to this emerging movement's proposals for a postmodern science, spirituality, and world order.

British Identities before Nationalism

Author : Colin Kidd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425722
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book British Identities before Nationalism written by Colin Kidd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new British history, this study draws upon evidence from England, Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European comparisons and influences.

Mapping the Spectrum

Author : Klaus Hentschel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198509530
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Mapping the Spectrum written by Klaus Hentschel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the boom of spectrum analysis in the 1860s, spectroscopy has become one of the most fruitful research technologies in analytic chemistry, physics, astronomy, and other sciences. This book is the first in-depth study of the ways in which various types of spectra, especially the sun's Fraunhofer lines, have been recorded, displayed, and interpreted. The book assesses the virtues and pitfalls of various types of depictions, including hand sketches, woodcuts, engravings, lithographs and, from the late 1870s onwards, photomechanical reproductions. The material of a 19th-century engraver or lithographer, the daily research practice of a spectroscopist in the laboratory, or a student's use of spectrum posters in the classroom, all are looked at and documented here. For pioneers of photography such as John Herschel or Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, the spectrum even served as a prime test object for gauging the color sensitivity of their processes. This is a broad, contextual portrayal of the visual culture of spectroscopy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The illustrations are not confined to spectra--they show instruments, laboratories, people at work, and plates of printing manuals. The result is a multifacetted description, focusing on the period from Fraunhofer up to the beginning of Bohr's quantum theory. A great deal of new and fascinating material from two dozen archives has been included. A must for anyone interested in the history of modern science or in research practice using visual representations.

From Stevin to Spinoza

Author : Wiep van Bunge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004247564
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book From Stevin to Spinoza written by Wiep van Bunge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several schools of thought that are an essential part of early modern philosophy are presented in this work. The author does not concentrate on the main authors or key-concepts that made up seventeenth-century philosophical discourse, but places the practice of philosophy in the Dutch Republic in a wide cultural context. This approach provides the opportunity to assess the emergence and early diffusion of Spinozism as a comprehensive philosophy.

Messages from the Afterlife

Author : Mark Ireland
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1583947183
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Messages from the Afterlife written by Mark Ireland and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father watches his teenage son step out the door on a hiking trip, not knowing that this is the last time he would see him.... A journal of grief, despair, and ultimately, hope, this book tells the story of every parent's nightmare--the sudden death of a child--and a father's search for meaning in a seemingly random world of psychics and skeptics. Expanding on territory covered in his 2008 memoir of his son's death Soul Shift, Messages from the Afterlife is both an account of Ireland's journey from indifference to belief and an overview of the resources available to the bereaved to help them receive messages from the afterlife. Mark Ireland, son of celebrated "psychic to the stars" Dr. Richard Ireland, was a successful marketing executive in Arizona with little interest in his father's colorful history. While his father held readings for Mae West and traveled the U.S. demonstrating his parapsychological powers, Mark Ireland took a more conventional route through life. But when his own teenage son Brandon suddenly dies while hiking in the mountains with friends, Ireland is forced to confront his resistance to all things spiritual and begins to explore the possibility that communication with the dead is real. In his search for conclusive evidence of life after death, he plunges into his father's world and meets an array of respected psychic-mediums who deliver unexpected messages not only from his son in the afterlife but also from many other souls seeking to communicate with the living. Fighting to retain a sense of critical thinking, Ireland also contacts scientists conducting research into the survival of consciousness after death. The book features detailed accounts of tests and experiments that various people have conducted to obtain proof of consciousness survival, including Ireland's own, involving a secret message left behind by his sister, Robin, who died of pancreatic cancer. The contents of this message were unknown to any living person and remained sealed in an envelope--untouched--until responses had been received from a group of qualified mediums who sought to "crack" the code. Messages from the Afterlife shows how spirit communication can be both undeniably accurate and frustratingly ambiguous, and above all demonstrates the value of having an open, receptive mind while maintaining faith in the indestructiblity of the human spirit.

The Mathematical Imagination

Author : Matthew Handelman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823283844
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Mathematical Imagination written by Matthew Handelman and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination challenges this narrative, showing how for other German-Jewish thinkers, such as Gershom Scholem, Franz Rosenzweig, and Siegfried Kracauer, mathematics offered metaphors to negotiate the crises of modernity during the Weimar Republic. Influential theories of poetry, messianism, and cultural critique, Handelman shows, borrowed from the philosophy of mathematics, infinitesimal calculus, and geometry in order to refashion cultural and aesthetic discourse. Drawn to the austerity and muteness of mathematics, these friends and forerunners of the Frankfurt School found in mathematical approaches to negativity strategies to capture the marginalized experiences and perspectives of Jews in Germany. Their vocabulary, in which theory could be both mathematical and critical, is missing from the intellectual history of critical theory, whether in the work of second generation critical theorists such as Jürgen Habermas or in contemporary critiques of technology. The Mathematical Imagination shows how Scholem, Rosenzweig, and Kracauer’s engagement with mathematics uncovers a more capacious vision of the critical project, one with tools that can help us intervene in our digital and increasingly mathematical present. The Mathematical Imagination is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

Theories of Scientific Method

Author : Robert Nola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317493494
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Scientific Method written by Robert Nola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental questions in their exploration of the major recent theories of scientific method. Although for many scientists their understanding of method is something they just pick up in the course of being trained, Nola and Sankey argue that it is possible to be explicit about what this tacit understanding of method is, rather than leave it as some unfathomable mystery. They robustly defend the idea that there is such a thing as scientific method and show how this might be legitimated. This book begins with the question of what methodology might mean and explores the notions of values, rules and principles, before investigating how methodologists have sought to show that our scientific methods are rational. Part 2 of this book sets out some principles of inductive method and examines its alternatives including abduction, IBE, and hypothetico-deductivism. Part 3 introduces probabilistic modes of reasoning, particularly Bayesianism in its various guises, and shows how it is able to give an account of many of the values and rules of method. Part 4 considers the ideas of philosophers who have proposed distinctive theories of method such as Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn and Feyerabend and Part 5 continues this theme by considering philosophers who have proposed naturalised theories of method such as Quine, Laudan and Rescher. This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the idea of scientific method and a wide-ranging discussion of how historians of science, philosophers of science and scientists have grappled with the question over the last fifty years.

The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy

Author : B. J. T. Dobbs
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521273817
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy written by B. J. T. Dobbs and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-04-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets the foundations of Newton's alchemy in their historical context in Restoration England. It is shown that alchemical modes of thought were quite strong in many of those who provided the dynamism for the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century and that these modes of thought had important relationships with general movements for reform in the same period.

Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin

Author : S. Peterfreund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137015276
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin by : S. Peterfreund

Download or read book Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin written by S. Peterfreund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses crucial moments in the historical development of natural theology in England from the time of Francis Bacon to that of Charles Darwin. While the argument from design remains the rhetorical method of choice for natural theologians throughout the three centuries in question, the locus and object of design undergo a change.

Mild Differentiability Conditions for Newton's Method in Banach Spaces

Author : José Antonio Ezquerro Fernandez
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030487024
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Mild Differentiability Conditions for Newton's Method in Banach Spaces by : José Antonio Ezquerro Fernandez

Download or read book Mild Differentiability Conditions for Newton's Method in Banach Spaces written by José Antonio Ezquerro Fernandez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors use a technique based on recurrence relations to study the convergence of the Newton method under mild differentiability conditions on the first derivative of the operator involved. The authors’ technique relies on the construction of a scalar sequence, not majorizing, that satisfies a system of recurrence relations, and guarantees the convergence of the method. The application is user-friendly and has certain advantages over Kantorovich’s majorant principle. First, it allows generalizations to be made of the results obtained under conditions of Newton-Kantorovich type and, second, it improves the results obtained through majorizing sequences. In addition, the authors extend the application of Newton’s method in Banach spaces from the modification of the domain of starting points. As a result, the scope of Kantorovich’s theory for Newton’s method is substantially broadened. Moreover, this technique can be applied to any iterative method. This book is chiefly intended for researchers and (postgraduate) students working on nonlinear equations, as well as scientists in general with an interest in numerical analysis.

Multidimensional Mind

Author : Jean Millay
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556433061
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Multidimensional Mind written by Jean Millay and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterizing the mind as a maze with multiple pathways, Jean Millay explores the realms of sensory perception, resonance, trance, memory, logic, and belief.

A Contemporary Study of Iterative Methods

Author : A. Alberto Magrenan
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128094931
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book A Contemporary Study of Iterative Methods written by A. Alberto Magrenan and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Contemporary Study of Iterative Methods: Convergence, Dynamics and Applications evaluates and compares advances in iterative techniques, also discussing their numerous applications in applied mathematics, engineering, mathematical economics, mathematical biology and other applied sciences. It uses the popular iteration technique in generating the approximate solutions of complex nonlinear equations that is suitable for aiding in the solution of advanced problems in engineering, mathematical economics, mathematical biology and other applied sciences. Iteration methods are also applied for solving optimization problems. In such cases, the iteration sequences converge to an optimal solution of the problem at hand. - Contains recent results on the convergence analysis of numerical algorithms in both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces - Encompasses the novel tool of dynamic analysis for iterative methods, including new developments in Smale stability theory and polynomiography - Explores the uses of computation of iterative methods across non-linear analysis - Uniquely places discussion of derivative-free methods in context of other discoveries, aiding comparison and contrast between options

Between Rationalism and Empiricism

Author : Erhard Scheibe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461301831
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Between Rationalism and Empiricism written by Erhard Scheibe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scheibe is one of the most important philosophers of science in Germany. He has written extensively on all the problems that confront the philosophy of physics: rationalism vs. empiricism; reductionism; the foundations of quantum mechanics; space-time, and much more. Since little of his work has been translated into English, he is not yet well known internationally. However, this collection of some 40 of his papers will remedy this unfortunate situation.

The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature

Author : Walter Ott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192675370
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature written by Walter Ott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it mean to say that Boyle's law governs the expansion of a gas, or that the planets obey the law of gravity? Laws are rules that permit calculations and predictions. What does the universe have to be like, if it is to play by them? This book sorts the most prominent answers into three families. Laws first arose in a theological context; they govern events only because God enforces them. Those wishing to reverse the order of explanation, and argue that the powers of objects fix the laws, struggled to claim for themselves the results of new science. The stand-off between these two families bred a third which rejects any kind of enforcer for the laws. On this view, laws summarize events; they do not govern anything. This book traces the fortunes of the three families, from their origins to the present day. It uses objections - and the revisions needed to answer them - to produce the best representative of each. Along the way, it tries to settle the rules of this game, the debate over laws of nature. What should we expect from an account of laws? The book aims to help readers develop their own desiderata and judge the merits of the competing positions.

Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 vol 1

Author : Rob Iliffe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040248187
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660-1885 vol 1 written by Rob Iliffe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, poetry and memoranda, and explores the debate over Newton's reputation, work and personal life.