Cargando…
Edge of Objectivity.
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Princeton University Press,
2016.
|
| Colección: | Princeton Science Library (Paperback)
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction to the new paperback edition
- Full circle
- Art, life, and experiment
- The new philosophy
- Newton with his prism and silent face
- Science and the Enlightenment
- The rationalization of matter
- The history of nature
- Biology comes of age
- Early energetics
- Field physics
- Epilogue
- Bibliographic essay.