Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
Author: Stillman Drake
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780802075857

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.

Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science

Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science
Author: Pierre Duhem
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872203082

"Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays - including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis" - that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new translations of the historiographical essays presenting the equally celebrated "Continuity Thesis" by Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), a founding figure of the history and philosophy of science. Prefaced by an introduction on Duhem's intellectual development and continuing significance, here as well are important subsequent essays in which Duhem elaborated key concepts and critiqued such contemporaries as Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach. Together, these works offer a lively picture of the state of science at the turn of the century while addressing methodological issues that remain at the center of debate today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
Author: Stillman Drake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780802081643

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
Author: Stillman Drake
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780802081650

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.

Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences

Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences
Author: Trevor H. Levere
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 940091878X

This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance physics and natural philosophy; and so he should not be surprised in this volume to see emphases and methods congenial to him, even on topics as remote as Darwin or the chemical revolution. Therein lies whatever unity the discerning reader may find in this book, beyond the natural focus and coherence of the largest section, on Galileo, and the final section on Drake's collection of books, a major and now accessible resource for research in the field that he has made his own. We have chosen, as the occasion for presenting the volume to Stillman Drake, Galileo's birthday; Galileo has had more than one birthday party in Toronto since Drake came to the University of Toronto. As for the title, it reflects a shared conviction that experiment is the key to science; it is what scientists do. Drake has already asserted that emphasis in the title of his magisterial Galileo at Work, and we echo it here. Those who have had the privilege and pleasure of working and arguing with Stillman over the years know his tenacity, penetration, and vigour. They also know his generosity and humility. We owe him much.

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
Author: Stillman Drake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo
Author: V. Coelho
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1992-11-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780792320289

A collection of essays exploring the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. It takes a broad historical approach towards understanding such topics as the role of music in Galileo's experiments and in the scientific revolution

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science
Author: Stillman Drake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780802006264

This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.

The Light of Nature

The Light of Nature
Author: J.D. North
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9400951191

This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by some of those who have studied with him. The occasion of its publication is his seven tieth birthday - 4 November 1985. Its contents are a reflection - or so it is hoped - of his own interests, and they indicate at the same time his influence on subjects he has pursued for some forty years. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Alistair Cameron Crombie took a first degree in zoology at the University of Melbourne in 1938, after which he moved to Je sus College, Cambridge. There he took a doctorate in the same subject (with a dissertation on population dynamics - foreshadowing a later interest in the history of Darwinism) in 1942. By this time he had taken up a research position with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cambridge Zoological La boratory, a position he left in 1946, when he moved to a lectureship in the his tory and philosophy of science at University College, London. H. G. Andrewa ka and L. C. Birch, in a survey of the history of insect ecology (R. F. Smith, et al. , History of Entomology, 1973), recognise the importance of the works of Crombie (with which they couple the earlier work of Gause) as the principal sti mulus for the great interest taken in interspecific competition in the mid 194Os.