Overview

More than any other discipline, science has shaped the modern view of the world. The purpose of this two volume study is to recount how this came to be. Beginning with a depiction of primitive forms of mentality, Volume I, Theogony through Ptolemy, traces the contributions of the Presocratics and Plato to the sustained growth of scientific rationalism, culminating in Aristotle's organismic cosmology. This is followed by a description of the research of the Hellenistic precursors of modern science from Euclid and Archimedes through Ptolemy and Galen, comparing their mental outlook with that of the early church fathers. Volume II, Copernicus through Quantum Mechanics, recounts the origins of modern physical science and its conceptual development from the fourteenth century to the present.

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Schlagel nicely traces the origin and development of scientific thought from the dawn of scientific rationalism...to Aristotle's principles of explanation and organismic cosmology...The book is comprehensive in treatment, which includes historical, scientific and philosophical aspects...A successful book. (M.G. Prasad, Choice)

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The Author: Richard H. Schlagel is Elton Professor of Philosophy at The George Washington University. Having earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Springfield College, he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston University. In addition to numerous articles on the philosophy of science in professional journals, the first edition of Animism to Archimedes, Volume I of From Myth to the Modern Mind: A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought was published by Peter Lang in 1985. Contextual Realism: A Meta-physical Framework for Modern Science was published in 1986 by Paragon House.

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