Overview

The 67 chapters of this book constitute a descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world. The contributors, specialists from all parts of the world, present their chapters in clear, non-technical language, open to the non-specialist. Part One describes the methods and problems of research in the History of Science. It examines the relationship between Science and History, the available systems of historical interpretation and the philosophical problems concerning questions of discovery and reality. Part Two applies these methods to a wide range of fields, from the work of Newton to Relativity and Genetic Engineering, and presents a comprehensive picture of the history of scientific enterprise. There are full indexes of both subjects and names.

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Author:   G N Cantor ,  G.N. Cantor ,  J.R.R. Christie ,  M.J.S. Hodge
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.260kg
ISBN:  

9780415145787

ISBN 10:   0415145783
Pages:   1108
Publication Date:   04 July 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- The Editors -- PART I: THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- Section IA: History of science in relation to neighbouring disciplines -- 1. The development of the historiography of science /J. R. R. Christie -- 2. The history of science and the working scientist /John R. G. Turner -- 3. The history of science and the history of society /Roy Porter -- 4. The history of science and the philosophy of science /Larry Laudan -- 5. Sociological theories of scientific knowledge /Barry Barnes -- Section IB: Analytical perspectives -- 6. Marxism and the history of science /Robert M. Young -- 7. The sociology of the scientific community /Trevor Pinch -- 8. Feminism and the history of science /J. R. R. Christie -- 9. Language, discourse and science /J. V Golinski -- Section IC: Philosophical problems -- 10. Continental philosophy and the history of science /Gary Gutting -- 11. Discovery /T. Nickles -- 12. Rationality, science and history /Larry Briskman -- 13. Realism /W. H. Newton-Smith -- PART II: SELECTED WRITINGS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- Section IIA: Turning points -- 14. The Copemican revolution /J. R. Ravetz -- 15. The Scientific Revolution /John A. Schuster -- 16. Newton and natural philosophy /Alan Gabbey -- 17. The chemical revolution Carleton /E. Perrin -- 18. Laplacian physics /Robert Fox -- 19. Natural history, 1670-1802 /Phillip R. Sloan -- 20. The history of geology, 1780-1840 /Rachel Laudan -- 21. Energy /Crosbie Smith -- 22. Electromagnetic theory in the nineteenth century /M. Norton Wise -- 23. Cell theory and development /Jane Maienschein -- 24. Origins and species before and after Darwin /M.J.S.Hodge -- 25. William Wundt and the emergence of experimental psychology /K. Danziger -- 26. Behaviourism /Roger Smith -- 27. Freud and psychoanalysis /Raymond E. Fancher -- 28. The theory of relativity /John Stachel -- 29- Quantum theory /Michael Redhead -- 30. Classical economics and the Keynesian revolution /Bill Gerrard -- 3i- From physiology to biochemistry /Neil Morgan -- 32- The molecular revolution in biology /Robert Olby -- 33- The emergence of genetics /Robert Olby -- 34- Cybernetics and information technology /Michael S. Mahoney -- Section IIB: Topics and interpretations -- 35- Aristotelian science /A. George Molland -- 36. The heart and blood from Vesalius to Harvey /Andrew Wear -- 37- Magic and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries /John Henry -- 38. Atomism and the mechanical philosophy /Martin Tamny -- 39- Newtonianism /Simon Schaffer -- 40. Physical optics /G. N. Cantor -- 4i- Cosmology: Newton to Einstein /Pierre Kerszberg -- 42. Geometry and space /J.J. Gray -- 43- Particle science /Helge Kragh -- 44- The foundations of mathematics /Philip Kitcher -- 45- Probability and determinism, 1650-1900 /Ian Hacking -- 46. The mind-body problem /Robert M. Young -- 47- Paradigmatic traditions in the history of anthropology /George W. Stocking -- -- 48. Physiology and experimental medicine /John V Picks tone -- 49. Geography /David N. Livingstone -- Section IIC: Themes -- 50. Science and religion /John Hedley Brooke -- 51. Science and literature /Gillian Beer -- 52. Science and philosophy /George Macdonald Ross -- 53. The development of philosophy of science, 1600-1900 /Eman McMullin -- 54. The development of philosophy of science since 1900 /M. J. S. Hodge and G. N. Cantor -- 55. The classification of the sciences /Nicholas Fisher -- 56. Marginal science /Seymour H. Mauskopf -- 57. Science, alienation and oppression /Robert M. Young -- 58. Orthodoxies, critiques and alternatives /J. R. Ravetz -- 59. Nationalism and internationalism /Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus -- 60. Science and imperialism /Lewis Pyenson -- 61. Science and war /D. E. M. Edgerton -- 62. Science education /W. H. Brock -- 63. The organisation of science and its pursuit in early modem Europe /Roger L. Emerson -- 64. Professionalisation /J. B. Morrell -- 65. Science and the public /Steven Shapin -- 66. Science and political ideology, 1790-1848 /Dorinda Outram -- 67. Natural science and social theory /Theodore M. Porter -- The Contributors -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

Reviews

An excellent compendium of some of the most interesting commentators on science today. - New Scientist Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction. References are copious, yet not so comprehensive as to deter the novice from further research...an ambitious and important book. - Times Literary Supplement

An excellent compendium of some of the most interesting commentators on science today. - New Scientist Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction. References are copious, yet not so comprehensive as to deter the novice from further research...an ambitious and important book. - Times Literary Supplement

An excellent compendium of some of the most interesting commentators on science today. <br>- New Scientist <br> Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction. References are copious, yet not so comprehensive as to deter the novice from further research...an ambitious and important book. <br>- Times Literary Supplement <br>

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Robert Olby, Geoffrey Cantor, John Christie, and Jonathon Hodge are all in the Division of the History of Science at the University of Leeds.

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