A Vision of Modern Science
Title | A Vision of Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | U. DeYoung |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2011-03-28 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0230118054 |
An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today.
Modern Art and Modern Science
Title | Modern Art and Modern Science PDF eBook |
Author | Paul C. Vitz |
Publisher | Praeger Pub Text |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1983-12-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780275917296 |
How Modern Science Came Into the World
Title | How Modern Science Came Into the World PDF eBook |
Author | H. F. Cohen |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 825 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9089642390 |
Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket - so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome.
Albert Einstein's Vision
Title | Albert Einstein's Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Barry R. Parker |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2011-02-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1615925643 |
Acclaimed science writer Parker completes his trilogy on Einstein with this new work which introduces a wealth of new material and shows the incredibly wide-ranging influence of Einstein's many discoveries.
Vision Science
Title | Vision Science PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen E. Palmer |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 844 |
Release | 1999-04-14 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780262161831 |
This textbook on vision reflects the integrated computational approach of modern research scientists, combining psychological, computational and neuroscientific perspectives.
Primate Visions
Title | Primate Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Donna J. Haraway |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1136608141 |
Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
Knowledge is Power (Icon Science)
Title | Knowledge is Power (Icon Science) PDF eBook |
Author | John Henry |
Publisher | Icon Books |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1785782517 |
Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena or revealed any hidden laws of nature. How then can he rank as he does alongside Newton? Bacon was the first major thinker to describe how science should be done, and to explain why. Scientific knowledge should not be gathered for its own sake but for practical benefit to mankind. And Bacon promoted experimentation, coming to outline and define the rigorous procedures of the 'scientific method' that today from the very bedrock of modern scientific progress. John Henry gives a dramatic account of the background to Bacon's innovations and the sometimes unconventional sources for his ideas. Why was he was so concerned to revolutionize the attitude to scientific knowledge - and why do his ideas for reform still resonate today?