The Making Of Modern Science

Author : Peter J. Bowler,Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226068626

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Making Modern Science by Peter J. Bowler,Iwan Rhys Morus Pdf

The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that affect-but are also affected by-society and culture. In Making Modern Science, a text designed for introductory college courses in the history of science and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Bowler and Morus explore both the history of science itself and its influence on modern thought. Opening with an introduction that explains developments in the history of science over the last three decades and the controversies these initiatives have engendered, the book then proceeds in two parts. The first section considers key episodes in the development of modern science, including the Scientific Revolution and individual accomplishments in geology, physics, and biology. The second section is an analysis of the most important themes stemming from the social relations of science-the discoveries that force society to rethink its religious, moral, or philosophical values. Making Modern Science thus chronicles all major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to the contemporary issues of evolutionism, genetics, nuclear physics, and modern cosmology. Written by seasoned historians, this book will encourage students to see the history of science not as a series of names and dates but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships between science and modern society. The first survey of its kind, Making Modern Science is a much-needed and accessible introduction to the history of science, engagingly written for undergraduates and curious readers alike.

Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 081353531X

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Nature's Body by Londa L. Schiebinger Pdf

Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, eighteenth-century botanists ascribed to them passionate relations, polyandrous marriages, and suicidal incest, and accounts of steamy plant sex began to infiltrate the botanical literature of the day. Naturalists also turned their attention to the great apes just becoming known to eighteenth-century Europeans, clothing the females in silk vestments and training them to sip tea with the modest demeanor of English matrons, while imagining the males of the species fully capable of ravishing women.

Author : Donald L. Opitz,Staffan Bergwik,Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137492739

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Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science by Donald L. Opitz,Staffan Bergwik,Brigitte Van Tiggelen Pdf

The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262543903

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Music and the Making of Modern Science by Peter Pesic Pdf

A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.

Author : David Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780745657998

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The Making of Modern Science by David Knight Pdf

Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the word 'scientist' was coined; forty years later science (increasingly specialised) was a becoming a profession. Men of science rivalled clerics and critics as sages; they were honoured as national treasures, and buried in state funerals. Their new ideas invigorated the life of the mind. Peripatetic congresses, great exhibitions, museums, technical colleges and laboratories blossomed; and new industries based on chemistry and electricity brought prosperity and power, economic and military. Eighteenth-century steam engines preceded understanding of the physics underlying them; but electric telegraphs and motors were applied science, based upon painstaking interpretation of nature. The ideas, discoveries and inventions of scientists transformed the world: lives were longer and healthier, cities and empires grew, societies became urban rather than agrarian, the local became global. And by the opening years of the twentieth century, science was spreading beyond Europe and North America, and women were beginning to be visible in the ranks of scientists. Bringing together the people, events, and discoveries of this exciting period into a lively narrative, this book will be essential reading both for students of the history of science and for anyone interested in the foundations of the world as we know it today.

Author : Charles Webster
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486169132

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From Paracelsus to Newton by Charles Webster Pdf

This fascinating book highlights the worldviews of the 16th and 17th centuries with a masterly series of essays that explore three cases relating to prophecy, spiritual magic, and demonic magic.

Author : Peter J. Bowler,Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226365930

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Making Modern Science, Second Edition by Peter J. Bowler,Iwan Rhys Morus Pdf

In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its influence on modern thought, the authors chronicle the major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to contemporary issues in genetics, physics, and more. Thoroughly revised and expanded, the second edition draws on the latest research and scholarship. It also contains two entirely new chapters: one that explores the impact of computing on the development of science, and another that shows how the West used science and technology as tools for geopolitical expansion. Designed for entry-level college courses and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Making Modern Science presents the history of science not as a series of names and dates, but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships joining science and society.

Author : G N Cantor,G.N. Cantor,J.R.R. Christie,M.J.S. Hodge,R.C. Olby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000158854

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Companion to the History of Modern Science by G N Cantor,G.N. Cantor,J.R.R. Christie,M.J.S. Hodge,R.C. Olby Pdf

The 67 chapters of this book describe and analyse the development of Western science from 1500 to the present day. Divided into two major sections - 'The Study of the History of Science' and 'Selected Writings in the History of Science' - the volume describes the methods and problems of research in the field and then applies these techniques to a wide range of fields. Areas covered include: * the Copernican Revolution * Genetics * Science and Imperialism * the History of Anthropology * Science and Religion * Magic and Science. The companion is an indispensable resource for students and professionals in History, Philosophy, Sociology and the Sciences as well as the History of Science. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in an introduction to the subject.

Author : A. Bala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230601215

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The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science by A. Bala Pdf

Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics, cosmology and physics played an indispensable role in making possible the birth of modern science.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521567629

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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant Pdf

This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.

Author : K. Raj
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230625310

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Relocating Modern Science by K. Raj Pdf

Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.

Author : Donald L. Opitz,Staffan Bergwik,Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137492739

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Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science by Donald L. Opitz,Staffan Bergwik,Brigitte Van Tiggelen Pdf

The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.

Author : Michael Strevens
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781631491382

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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens Pdf

“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.

Author : John Marks
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015007652590

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Science and the Making of the Modern World by John Marks Pdf

Author : Undo Uus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015035323370

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Blindness of Modern Science by Undo Uus Pdf