A highly readable historical survey of the major developments in scientific thought and the impact of science on western culture, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. Organised chronologically, the book explores the history of studies of the natural world, and man's role within that world, in asingle volume. JOHN HENRY Professor of the History of Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely in the history of science from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, including 'The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science', now in its third edition. INDICE: Introduction - Setting the Scene - Plato and Aristotle - From the Roman Empire to the Empire of Islam - The Western Middle Ages - The Renaissance - Nicholas Copernicus and a New World - New Methods of Science - Bringing Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Together: Johannes Kepler - Mathematics and Mechanics: Galileo Galilei - Practice and Theory in Renaissance Medicine: William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood - The Spirit of System: René Descartes and the Mechanical Philosophy - The Royal Society and Experimental Philosophy - Experiment, Mathematics, and Magic: Isaac Newton - Newton's Legacy: Forces and Fluids (electricity and heat) - The Chemical Revolution: From Newton toJohn Dalton, via Priestley and Lavoisier - Natural Theology and Natural Order: Newtonian Optimism and the History of Science - The Making of Geology: From James Hutton to Charles Lyell via Catastrophism - The History of Plants and Animals: Successive Emergence or Evolution? - Religion and Progress in VictorianBritain: Robert Chambers versus Hugh Miller - Bringing it All Together?: Charles Darwin's Evolution - Darwinian Aftermaths: Religion; Social Science; Biology - Beyond Newton: Energy and Thermodynamics - Newton Deposed: Einstein and Relativity Theory - Mathematics Instead of a World Picture: From Atomism to Quantum Theory - Afterword - Index - -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-01943-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés