Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
This work is to counter historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices ...
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Lenses and Waves
this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens’ mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its ...
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Quirky Sides of Scientists : True Tales of Ingenuity and Error From Physics and Astronomy
This enlightening book clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific ...
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Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison : Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?
The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance ...
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The Genesis of General Relativity
Represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical ...
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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
The papers in this collection focus on patterns of change in natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, aiming to encourage ...
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Thinking about Life :The History and Philosophy of Biology and Other Sciences
Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology. We used our present-day understanding of cells to ‘define’ the ...
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