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470 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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Machine derived contents note: Chronology of Readings 9 -- Chapter 1: The Origins of Natural Philosophy 13 -- 1.1 Pre-Socratics a 13 -- 1.2 Plato 18 -- 1.2.1 The Republic r 18 -- 1.22 Tiiaeus ? 20 -- 1.3 Aristotle 25 -- 13.1 Posterior Analytics a 25 -- 1.32 Prior Analytics 27 -- 1.333 Physics ? 29 -- 14A Euclid, The Elements 33 -- 1 5 Lucretius, On the Nature of Things 37 -- Chapter 2: The Roman Era and the Rise of Islam J 43 -- 2.1 Ptolemy 43 -- 2.1.1 Almagest 43 -- 2.1.2 Geography 49 -- 2.2 Galen, On the Therapeutic Method 53 -- 2.3 Pliny the Elder, Natural History 57 -- 2.4 Boethius, "On Arithmetic" 60 -- 2.5 Geber, Alchemy 64 -- 26 Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Commentary on Aristotle a 67 -- 2.7 Ibn Sina (Avicenna) 72 -- 2.7.1 "On the formation of Minerals and Metals and the Impossibility of Alchemy" S 72 -- 2.7.2 "Canon" a 74 -- 2.8 Al-Khwarinzmi, "Six ypes of Rhetorical Algebraic Equations" 78 -- 2.9 Al-Ghazali, Tahafut Al-Falasifah [Incoherence of the Philosophers] 81 -- 2.10 Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed 85 -- Chapter 3: The Revival of Natural Philosophy in Western Europe 90 -- 3.1 Alcuin, The Rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne 90 -- 3.2 Albertus Magnus, "On the Material, Hardness, and Fissility of Stones" 93 -- 3.3 Thomas Aquinas, "Questions 1-IV of his Commentarv on the De Trinitate of -- Boethius" a 97 -- 34 Jean Buridan, "The Impetus Theory of Projectile Motion" 0 100 -- 3.5 Robert Grosseteste, "On the Rainbow" 104 -- 3.6 Theodoric of Freiberg, "On the Rainbow" 107 -- 317 Nicole Oresme, Geometry of Qualifies and Motions a 112 -- 3.8 William of Ockham 116 -- 3.8.1 Theory of Terms: Summa Logicae (Part i e 116 -- 3.8.2 "Questions on Aristotle's Physics" 119 -- 3.9 Joharnes Sacrobosco, The Sphere 120 -- Chapter 4: Science in the Renaissance: The Courtly Philosophers a 127 -- 4.1 Nicolas Copernicus, On the Revolutions 127 -- 4.2 Galileo Galilei 133 -- 4.2.1 Two New Sciences 133 -- 4.2. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" 139 -- 4.3 Johannes Kepler, The Harmony of the World 144 -- 4A4 Paracelsus, loatrochemistnj t 150 -- 4.5 Andreas Vesalius, The Epitome of De Fabrica Corporis Humanis 153 -- Chapter 5: The Scientific Revolution: Contested Theory 157 -- 5.1 Francis Bacon e 157 -- 5.1. The New Atlantis 1 57 -- 5.1.2 The New Organon 162 -- 5.2 Ren6 Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth -- in the Sciences 167 -- 53 Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Grounds of Natural Philosophy 172 -- 5.4 Isaac Newton 175 -- 5.4.1 The Principia Mathematica 175 -- 5.4.2 Opticks 180 -- 5.5 William Harvey, The Circlation of the Blood 186 -- 5.6 Robert Boyle, The Skeptical Chymist 192 -- Chapter 6: The Enlightenment and Enterprise 198 -- 6.1 Denis Diderot, "iThe Arts" from Encyclopdie 198 -- 6.2 Count Francesco Algarotti, Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy explain'd for the Use of the Ladies 201 -- 6.3 ean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat. Marquis de Condorcet, Selected Writings 204 -- 6.4 joseph Priestley, Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston and the Decomposition of -- "Water 208 -- 6.5 Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry 211 -- 6.6 Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity 216 -- 6.7 Caroline Herschel, Autobiographies 222 -- 6.8 John Playfair, Iliustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth 226 -- 6,9 Mungo Park, Travels into the Interior of Africa 229 -- Chapter 7: Science and Empire 234 -- 7.1 Alexander von Humboldt Cosmos 234 -- 7.2 Georges Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth 237 -- 73 Jiean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Larnarck, Zoological Philosophy 242 -- 7.4 Charles Babbage, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England 0 247 -- 7.5 Charles L ell, Principtes of Geology 251 -- 7.6 Charles Darwin, On the Oriyiinof Species 257 -- 7 Francis Ialton, Heredi tary Genius: An inquiry into its Laws and Consequences 263 -- 78 Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology 270 -- 7.9 Louis Pastteur, Studies on Fermentation 275 -- 7.10 William Thomson Kelvin, 1st Baron, "Review of Evidence Regarding the Physical Condition -- of the Earth" 280 -- 7.11 Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeeev, The .Principles of Chemistry 0 285 -- Chapter 8' The Death of Certainty: Science and War a 292 -- 8.1 Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford, An Experimental Inquiry Concerning the Source of the -- Heat which is Excited by Friction a 292 -- 8.2 Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity 0 299 -- 8.3 James Clerk Maxwell, A Dynamical Theory of Electromagnetic Field 304 -- 84 J.J. Thomson, "Carriers of Negative Electricity" 309 -- 8.5 A nmedeo Avogadro, "Essay on a Manner of Determining the Relative Masses of the -- Elementary Molecules of Bodies and the Proportions in which they enter into these -- Compounds" 314 -- 8.6 Ernest Rutherford, The Newer Alchemy 319 -- 8.7 Marie Sklodowska Curie 326 -- 8.7.1 Radioactive Substances @ 327 -- 8.7,2 Eve Curie Maldame Curie: A Biography I 328 -- 8.8 Haber, The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World Wa/r 333 -- 8.9 Albert Einstein 338 -- 8.9.1 "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" & 339 -- 8.9.2 "What is the Theory of Relativity?" 342 -- 8.10 Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id e 344 -- Chapter 9: Entering the Atomic Age e 349 -- 91 Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation 349 -- 9.2 Thomas Hunt Morgan, The Scientific Basis of Evolution 356 -- "9.3 Erwin Schrdinger, "The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics" 362 -- 9.4 Lise Meitner and Otto R. Frisch 368 -- 9.4.1 "Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction" 3 68 -- 9.4A2 ."Products of the Fission of the Uranium Nucleus" 369 -- 9.5 Committee on Political and Social Problems, Manhattan Project, "Franck Report" 371 -- 9,6 Robert Oppenheimer, "Atomic Explosives [May 1946]" 375 -- .7 Erwin Schrdiinger, What is Life? The Physical Aspects ofthe Living Ceil 380 -- 9.8 John D. Watson and Francis HI Crick, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure fo -- Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" a 384 -- 9.9 Barbara McClintock, "The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge" 386 -- Chapter 10: 1957: The Year the World Became a Planet 392 -- 10.1 John F. Kennedy, "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs" % 392 -- 102 Sydney Chapman , "Introduction to the History of the First International Polar Year" 397 -- 103 Sir Harold Spencer ,ones, "The Inception and Development of the International Geophysical -- Ilar 399 -- 10.4 J. Tzo Wilson 403 -- 10.4.1 "Hypothesis of Earth's Behaviour" 403 -- 10.4,2 "A New Class of Faults and Their Bearing on Continental Drift" 410 -- 10.5 Vannevar Bush, Modern Arms and Free Men 416 -- 1106 Fred Hoyle, Thie Nature of the Uuiverse e 421 -- Chapter 11: Man on the Moon, Microwave in the Kitchen a 426 -- 11.1 Margaret Sanger 426 -- 11.1.1 An Autobiography 426 -- 11. L2 "Birth Control and Racial Betterment" 428 -- 11.2 Charles Babbage, "Of the Analytical Engine" 429 -- S13 Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" 435 -- 11. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 440 -- 11.5 Human Genome Project, Mission Statement" 447 -- 11,6 UNESCO, "Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights" 447 -- 11.7 US Supreme Court, Diamond v. Chakrabarty 447 US 303 (1980) 452 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-464) and index |
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Science -- History -- Textbooks.
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Science -- Philosophy -- Textbooks.
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Science -- Social aspects -- History -- Textbooks.
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Textbooks.
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Cormack, Lesley B., 1957-
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Ede, Andrew.
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| LC no. |
2007280568 |
| ISBN |
1551117703 (paperback) |
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9781551117706 (paperback) |
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