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Author: Charles Coulston Gillispie ,
Professor Robert Fox ,
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 19.70cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780691050270
ISBN 10: 0691050279
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 27 February 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Language: English
Reviews
Gillispie's distinguished biography is a magisterial survey of one of the most influential scientists of the past two centuries. It is also a history of science at its most challenging. -- William R. Shea Nature This is a rich and extremely well documented presentation of Laplace's works, which will surely prompt many scientists to go back to the original texts themselves and find out more about this great French scientist. -- Jean-Bernard Robert Physics World This book will decidedly be the definitive one-volume work on Laplace, and will be of particular value to mathematicians and physicists who wish to know the mathematical details of the origins of a number of significant parts of their subjects. -- R. L. Cooke Mathematical Reviews This book provides a scholarly and human view of the scientific life of Laplace, seen through the intellectual, political, and social environment of his time. -- Lorenzo J. Curtis Naturvetenskap
Gillispie's distinguished biography is a magisterial survey of one of the most influential scientists of the past two centuries. It is also a history of science at its most challenging. -- William R. Shea, Nature This is a rich and extremely well documented presentation of Laplace's works, which will surely prompt many scientists to go back to the original texts themselves and find out more about this great French scientist. -- Jean-Bernard Robert, Physics World This book will decidedly be the definitive one-volume work on Laplace, and will be of particular value to mathematicians and physicists who wish to know the mathematical details of the origins of a number of significant parts of their subjects. -- R. L. Cooke, Mathematical Reviews This book provides a scholarly and human view of the scientific life of Laplace, seen through the intellectual, political, and social environment of his time. -- Lorenzo J. Curtis, Naturvetenskap
""Gillispie's distinguished biography is a magisterial survey of one of the most influential scientists of the past two centuries. It is also a history of science at its most challenging.""--William R. Shea, Nature ""This is a rich and extremely well documented presentation of Laplace's works, which will surely prompt many scientists to go back to the original texts themselves and find out more about this great French scientist.""--Jean-Bernard Robert, Physics World ""This book will decidedly be the definitive one-volume work on Laplace, and will be of particular value to mathematicians and physicists who wish to know the mathematical details of the origins of a number of significant parts of their subjects.""--R. L. Cooke, Mathematical Reviews ""This book provides a scholarly and human view of the scientific life of Laplace, seen through the intellectual, political, and social environment of his time.""--Lorenzo J. Curtis, Naturvetenskap
Author Information
Charles Coulston Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, where he founded the Program in History of Science in 1960. He is the author or numerous books, including The Edge of Objectivity (Princeton). He is the editor of the sixteen-volume Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Robert Fox is Professor of History of Science at the University of Oxford. Ivor Grattan-Guinness is Professor of the History of Mathmatics and Logic at Middlesex Polytechnic University in London.
