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Author Cantor, G. N

Title Companion to the History of Modern Science
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (1108 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 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 -- 2: The History of Science and the Working Scientist -- 3: The History of Science and the History of Society -- 4: The History of Science and the Philosophy of Science -- 5: Sociological Theories of Scientific Knowledge -- Section IB: Analytical Perspectives -- 6: Marxism and the History of Science
7: The Sociology of the Scientific Community -- 8: Feminism and the History of Science -- 9: Language, Discourse and Science -- Section IC: Philosophical Problems -- 10: Continental Philosophy and the History of Science -- 11: Discovery -- 12: Rationality, Science and History -- 13: Realism -- Part II: Selected Writings in the History of Science -- Section IIA: Turning Points -- 14: The Copernican Revolution -- 15: The Scientific Revolution -- 16: Newton and Natural Philosophy -- 17: The Chemical Revolution -- 18: Laplacian Physics -- 19: Natural History, 1670-1802
20: The History of Geology, 1780-1840 -- 21: Energy -- 22: Electromagnetic Theory in the Nineteenth Century -- 23: Cell Theory and Development -- 24: Origins and Species Before and After Darwin -- 25: William Wundt and the Emergence of Experimental Psychology -- 26: Behaviourism -- 27: Freud and Psychoanalysis -- 28: The Theory of Relativity -- 29: Quantum Theory -- 30: Classical Economics and the Keynesian Revolution -- 31: From Physiology to Biochemistry -- 32: The Molecular Revolution in Biology -- 33: The Emergence of Genetics -- 34: Cybernetics and Information Technology
Section IIB: Topics and Interpretations -- 35: Aristotelian Science -- 36: The Heart and Blood from Vesalius to Harvey -- 37: Magic and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 38: Atomism and the Mechanical Philosophy -- 39: Newtonianism -- 40: Physical Optics -- 41: Cosmology: Newton to Einstein -- 42: Geometry and Space -- 43: Particle Science -- 44: The Foundations of Mathematics -- 45: Probability and Determinism, 1650-1900 -- 46: The Mind-Body Problem -- 47: Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology -- 48: Physiology and Experimental Medicine -- 49: Geography
Section IIC: Themes -- 50: Science and Religion -- 51: Science and Literature -- 52: Science and Philosophy -- 53: The Development of Philosophy of Science, 1600-1900 -- 54: The Development of Philosophy of Science Since 1900 -- 55: The Classification of the Sciences -- 56: Marginal Science -- 57: Science, Alienation and Oppression -- 58: Orthodoxies, Critiques and Alternatives -- 59: Nationalism and Internationalism -- 60: Science and Imperialism -- 61: Science and War -- 62: Science Education -- 63: The Organisation of Science and Its Pursuit in Early Modern Europe -- 64: Professionalisation
Notes Description based upon print version of record
65: Science and the Public
Form Electronic book
Author Hodge, M. J. S
Olby, R. C
Christie, J.R.R
ISBN 9781000158854
1000158853