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Author : Giorgio de Santillana
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226734811
Galileo's scientific work which led him into a quarrel with the church.
Author : Giorgio De Santillana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
ISBN : OCLC:1087350203
Author : Giorgio De Santillana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : OCLC:1005464795
Author : Jr. James Reston
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158798251X
A suspenseful narrative and spiritive rendition of the life of Galileo.
Author : Charles Thorpe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226798486
At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–67) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the making—and unmaking—of Oppenheimer’s wartime and postwar scientific identity, Charles Thorpe illustrates the struggles over the role of the scientist in relation to nuclear weapons, the state, and culture. A stylish intellectual biography, Oppenheimer maps out changes in the roles of scientists and intellectuals in twentieth-century America, ultimately revealing transformations in Oppenheimer’s persona that coincided with changing attitudes toward science in society. “This is an outstandingly well-researched book, a pleasure to read and distinguished by the high quality of its observations and judgments. It will be of special interest to scholars of modern history, but non-specialist readers will enjoy the clarity that Thorpe brings to common misunderstandings about his subject.”—Graham Farmelo, Times Higher Education Supplement “A fascinating new perspective. . . . Thorpe’s book provides the best perspective yet for understanding Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos years, which were critical, after all, not only to his life but, for better or worse, the history of mankind.”—Catherine Westfall, Nature
Author : Galileo
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1957-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385092395
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context.
Author : Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230726
The present volume is a collection of systematic and historical studies addressing the terms of Aristotelian inference.
Author : Giorgio 1902- de Santillana
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015066771
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Author : Lewis S. Feuer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000680096
The birth of modern science was linked to the rise in Western Europe of a new sensibility, that of the scientific intellectual. Such a person was no more technician, looking at science as just a job to be done, but one for whom the scientific stand-point is a philosophy in the fullest sense. In The Scientific Intellectual, Lewis S. Feuer traces the evolution of this new human type, seeking to define what ethic inspired him and the underlying emotions that created him.Under the influence of Max Weber, the rise of the scientific spirit has been viewed by sociologists as an offspring of the Protestant revolution, with its asceticism and sense of guilt acting as causative agents in the rise of capitalism and the growth of the scientific movement. Feuer takes strong issue with this view, pointing out how it is at odds with what we know of the psychological conditions of modern societies making for human curiosity and its expression in the observation of and experiment with nature.Feuer shows that wherever a scientific movement has begun, it has been based on emotions that issue in what might be called a hedonist-libertarian ethic. The scientific intellectual was a person for whom science was a 'new philosophy,' a third force rising above religious and political hatreds, seeking in the world of nature liberated vision, a intending to use and enjoy its knowledge. In his new introduction to this brilliantly readable volume, Professor Feuer reviews the book's critical reception and expands the scope of the original edition to include fascinating discussions of Francis Bacon, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, Thomas Hardy, and others. The Scientific Intellectual will be of interest to scientists and intellectual historians.
Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429972611
The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop of belief confirmation. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths. Interlaced with his theory of belief, Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics, and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural, and the paranormal. Ultimately, he demonstrates why science is the best tool ever devised to determine whether or not a belief matches reality.
Author : Peter Machamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521588413
Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the church. It will be of interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies.
Author : Daniel R Altschuler
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811253638
This book tries to look at human thought and action from a scientific perspective, and in the process, acquaints the reader with essential concepts about science and its history. It takes a broad look at our present troubles without overlooking some crucial historical, religious, and political causes but places science at the center stage.The author applies what he has learned throughout his career to go beyond science. After an introduction setting the scene and a review of the 'scientific temper' and the inexcusable ignorance of science by some leaders and many followers, the author turns his sharp vision to look at other issues. The most significant challenges are critical and global: climate change caused by our activities, stockpiles of nuclear weapons that are a constant threat, population growth, and increasing inequality at all levels. These problems do have a profound ethical character and threaten to end forever with our misery, producing a 'catastrophic convergence'.Written with rigor for all readers, with many references and infused with relevant quotations, the author's message is clear: we need to change our ways drastically and urgently, now or never. But he offers not much in terms of a solution, something done by many authors to sweeten the pill, because as he argues, beyond lofty declarations, there is no real solution as the clock runs down, leading to his dystopian view of the future.
Author : Gerald James Holton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 067479298X
What is good science? What goal--if any--is the proper end of scientific activity? Is there a legitimating authority that scientists mayclaim? Howserious athreat are the anti-science movements? These questions have long been debated but, as Gerald Holton points out, every era must offer its own responses. This book examines these questions not in the abstract but shows their historic roots and the answers emerging from the scientific and political controversies of this century. Employing the case-study method and the concept of scientific thematathat he has pioneered, Holton displays the broad scope of his insight into the workings of science: from the influence of Ernst Mach on twentiethcentury physicists, biologists, psychologists, and other thinkers to the rhetorical strategies used in the work of Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and others; from the bickering between Thomas Jefferson and the U.S. Congress over the proper form of federal sponsorship of scientific research to philosophical debates since Oswald Spengier over whether our scientific knowledge will ever be "complete." In a masterful final chapter, Holton scrutinizes the "anti-science phenomenon," the increasingly common opposition to science as practiced today. He approaches this contentious issue by examining the world views and political ambitions of the proponents of science as well as those of its opponents-the critics of "establishment science" (including even those who fear that science threatens to overwhelm the individual in the postmodern world) and the adherents of "alternative science" (Creationists, New Age "healers," astrologers). Through it all runs the thread of the author's deep historical knowledge and his humanistic understanding of science in modern culture. Science and Anti-Science will be of great interest not only to scientists and scholars in the field of science studies but also to educators, policymalcers, and all those who wish to gain a fuller understanding of challenges to and doubts about the role of science in our lives today.
Author : Jerome J. Langford
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 0472065106
A penetrating account of the confrontation between Galileo and the Church of Rome
Author : Erwin Panofsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789401762038