A History of Scientific IdeasBarnes and Noble Books, 1996 - 525 стор. "Science, as Charles Singer points out in his preface, having come to control and direct industry, is now rapidly and manifestly transforming the very face of the earth and the lot of its living inhabitants, whether human, animal, or plant. What is the story behind this immense increase in scientific activity? Has science always been so powerful? And what does 'science' mean? Dr. Singer answers these questions by presenting a history of science--its developments, its protagonists, and the philosophy behind it. From the Stone Age to the twentieth century, from Ancient Egypt to modern Europe, from astrology to microbiology, this is the complex and extraordinary story of man's curiosity."--Jacket |
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... nineteenth century was the slowness with which microscopical research took an impor- tant place . The great microscopists of the seventeenth century had singularly few successors in the eighteenth . Thus , when Humphry Davy needed ...
... nineteenth century was the slowness with which microscopical research took an impor- tant place . The great microscopists of the seventeenth century had singularly few successors in the eighteenth . Thus , when Humphry Davy needed ...
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... nineteenth - century physics are distinct subjects . Our period ends with the beginning of a new physics in which mechanical forces recede into the background and quite other con- ceptions take their place . But this was not , as the ...
... nineteenth - century physics are distinct subjects . Our period ends with the beginning of a new physics in which mechanical forces recede into the background and quite other con- ceptions take their place . But this was not , as the ...
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... century , ' spontaneous generation ' of forms whose eggs were visible to the naked eye was becoming incredible ( pp . 282 f . ) . For microscopic creatures the possi- bility remained though in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
... century , ' spontaneous generation ' of forms whose eggs were visible to the naked eye was becoming incredible ( pp . 282 f . ) . For microscopic creatures the possi- bility remained though in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
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INTRODUCTION Nature of the Scientific Process | 1 |
THE SECOND ADVENTURE Divorce of Science | 62 |
THE FAILURE OF INSPIRATION Science the Hand | 103 |
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