The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Author | : Thomas S. Kuhn |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Thomas S. Kuhn |
Publisher | : Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Steven Shapin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022639848X |
This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
Author | : Max Eastman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : I. Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674767782 |
Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea.
Author | : H. Floris Cohen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1994-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226112802 |
In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China, or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology. A valuable entrée to the literature on the Scientific Revolution, this book assesses both a controversial body of scholarship, and contributes to understanding how modern science came into the world.
Author | : Ardea Skybreak |
Publisher | : Insight Press, Inc |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-07-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 097602361X |
This wide-ranging interview with Ardea Skybreak, a scientist with professional training in ecology and evolutionary biology, spans from inquiries on science to her thoughts on the new synthesis of communism brought forward by Bob Avakian. The question and answer session provides insights into understanding the world through the lens of science and how to implement change through this knowledge. The book is broken up into sections such as "A Scientific Approach to Society, and Changing the World," "Bob Avakian--A True Scientific Visionary," and "Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution--Breaking with Wrong Ideas and Illusions."
Author | : Lawrence Principe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199567417 |
Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved.
Author | : David C. Lindberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1990-07-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521348041 |
A compendium offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution from a spectrum of scholars engaged in the study of 16th and 17th century science. Many accepted views and interpretations of the scientific revolution are challenged.
Author | : Margaret J. Osler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2000-03-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521667906 |
This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history.
Author | : Margaret C. Jacob |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780877225362 |
Jacob (history, New School for Social Research) proposes that the science of the 17th and 18th centuries was eventually accepted because it was made compatible with larger political and economic interests. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.