The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further…mehr
The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed to: § read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history and philosophy of science § understand and evaluate scientific material found in a wide variety of professional and popular settings § appreciate the social and cultural context in which scientific ideas emerge § identify the roles that mathematics plays in scientific inquiry Featuring primary sources in all the core scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences - The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader is ideal for students looking to better understand the origins of natural science and the questions asked throughout its history. By taking a thematic approach to introduce influential assumptions, methods and answers, this reader illustrates the implications of an impressive range of values and ideas across the history and philosophy of Western science.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel J. McKaughan is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. Holly VandeWall is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College, USA.
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Timeline Introduction Daniel J. McKaughan and Holly VandeWall Part I. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS Introduction Plato Philebus Plato Republic Plato Timaeus Lucretius On The Nature of Things Aristotle Categories Aristotle Posterior Analytics Aristotle Physics Aristotle On the Heavens Aristotle Meteorology Aristotle De Anima Aristotle Parts of Animals Aristotle Generation of Animals Euclid Elements Apollonius The Conics Ptolemy Introduction to the Almagest Avicenna De Mineralibus Al-Biruni Letters to Avicenna on Aristotelian Astronomy and Physics Aquinas On the Motion of the Heart Buridan Questions on Aristotelian Philosophy Oresme A Treatise on the Configuration of Qualities and Motions Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part II. TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: MECHANICS AND ASTRONOMY Introduction Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres Osiander Preface to On the Revolutions Tycho Brahe Preface to The Improved Mechanic Astronomy Kepler Astronomia Nova Galileo Message to Cosimo de'Medici Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two New Sciences Descartes Discourse on Method Descartes Principles of Philosophy Descartes Le Monde Bacon The New Organon Bacon The New Atlantis Newton Principia Huygens Treatise on Light Newton Opticks Newton Letter to Oldenberg Buffon On the Formation of the Planets Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part III: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: CHEMISTRY HEAT AND THE UNIFICATION OF FORCES Introduction Hermes Trismegistus The Emerald Tablet Paracelsus Of the Nature of Things Newton The Key and Commentary on the Emerald Tablet Boyle On the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Hypothesis Boyle Experimental Researches on Combustion Boyle The Sceptical Chymist Becher Concerning the First Principle of Metals and Stones Stahl Preliminaries Priestley Of Dephlogisticated Air Lavoisier Elements of Chemistry Young On the Theory of Light and Colors Dalton A New System of Chemical Philosophy Gay-Lussac Memoir on the Combination of Gases Avagadro Determining Relative Masses of Elementary Molecules Oersted The Electromagnetic Effect (4 pages) Faraday Lectures on Electricity and Magnetism Faraday Experimental Researches in Electricity Carnot Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire Clausius On the Nature of the Motion We Call Heat Maxwell A Dynamical Theory of the ElectroMagnetic Field Canizzaro Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy Mendeleev Relation between Properties and Atomic Weights Kelvin On the Dynamical Theory of Heat Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part IV: THE SPECIALIZATION OF NATURAL HISTORY: THE HUMAN ANIMAL ZOOLOGY BOTANY AND GEOLOGY Introduction William Harvey Concerning the Movement of the Heart and Blood Descartes Treatise on Man Hooke Micrographia Schwann Microscopical Investigations Buffon Natural History "Second Discourse" Buffon On the Generation and Species of Animals Linnaeus On the Increase of the Habitable Earth Linnaeus Economy of Nature Cuvier On the Revolutions of the Earthly Globe Lamarck Zoological Philosophy Cuvier Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Natural History of Fishes Lyell Principles of Geology Paley Natural Theology Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population Mendel Experiments in Plant Hybridization Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part V. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: DARWINISM AND ITS RECEPTION Introduction A. R. Wallace On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Darwin The Origin of Species Darwin Descent of Man Darwin Variation of Plants and Animals "Pangenesis" Kelvin On the Age of the Earth: Uniformity Briefly Refuted and Of Geological Dynamics Jenkin Review of the Origin of the Species Sedgwick Objections to Mr. Darwin's Theory Owen Darwin on the Origin of Species Gray Darwin and His Reviewers Agassiz Methods in the Study of Natural History Huxley T. H. The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Glossary Index
Timeline Introduction Daniel J. McKaughan and Holly VandeWall Part I. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS Introduction Plato Philebus Plato Republic Plato Timaeus Lucretius On The Nature of Things Aristotle Categories Aristotle Posterior Analytics Aristotle Physics Aristotle On the Heavens Aristotle Meteorology Aristotle De Anima Aristotle Parts of Animals Aristotle Generation of Animals Euclid Elements Apollonius The Conics Ptolemy Introduction to the Almagest Avicenna De Mineralibus Al-Biruni Letters to Avicenna on Aristotelian Astronomy and Physics Aquinas On the Motion of the Heart Buridan Questions on Aristotelian Philosophy Oresme A Treatise on the Configuration of Qualities and Motions Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part II. TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: MECHANICS AND ASTRONOMY Introduction Copernicus On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres Osiander Preface to On the Revolutions Tycho Brahe Preface to The Improved Mechanic Astronomy Kepler Astronomia Nova Galileo Message to Cosimo de'Medici Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two New Sciences Descartes Discourse on Method Descartes Principles of Philosophy Descartes Le Monde Bacon The New Organon Bacon The New Atlantis Newton Principia Huygens Treatise on Light Newton Opticks Newton Letter to Oldenberg Buffon On the Formation of the Planets Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part III: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: CHEMISTRY HEAT AND THE UNIFICATION OF FORCES Introduction Hermes Trismegistus The Emerald Tablet Paracelsus Of the Nature of Things Newton The Key and Commentary on the Emerald Tablet Boyle On the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Hypothesis Boyle Experimental Researches on Combustion Boyle The Sceptical Chymist Becher Concerning the First Principle of Metals and Stones Stahl Preliminaries Priestley Of Dephlogisticated Air Lavoisier Elements of Chemistry Young On the Theory of Light and Colors Dalton A New System of Chemical Philosophy Gay-Lussac Memoir on the Combination of Gases Avagadro Determining Relative Masses of Elementary Molecules Oersted The Electromagnetic Effect (4 pages) Faraday Lectures on Electricity and Magnetism Faraday Experimental Researches in Electricity Carnot Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire Clausius On the Nature of the Motion We Call Heat Maxwell A Dynamical Theory of the ElectroMagnetic Field Canizzaro Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy Mendeleev Relation between Properties and Atomic Weights Kelvin On the Dynamical Theory of Heat Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part IV: THE SPECIALIZATION OF NATURAL HISTORY: THE HUMAN ANIMAL ZOOLOGY BOTANY AND GEOLOGY Introduction William Harvey Concerning the Movement of the Heart and Blood Descartes Treatise on Man Hooke Micrographia Schwann Microscopical Investigations Buffon Natural History "Second Discourse" Buffon On the Generation and Species of Animals Linnaeus On the Increase of the Habitable Earth Linnaeus Economy of Nature Cuvier On the Revolutions of the Earthly Globe Lamarck Zoological Philosophy Cuvier Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Natural History of Fishes Lyell Principles of Geology Paley Natural Theology Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population Mendel Experiments in Plant Hybridization Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Part V. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: DARWINISM AND ITS RECEPTION Introduction A. R. Wallace On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Darwin The Origin of Species Darwin Descent of Man Darwin Variation of Plants and Animals "Pangenesis" Kelvin On the Age of the Earth: Uniformity Briefly Refuted and Of Geological Dynamics Jenkin Review of the Origin of the Species Sedgwick Objections to Mr. Darwin's Theory Owen Darwin on the Origin of Species Gray Darwin and His Reviewers Agassiz Methods in the Study of Natural History Huxley T. H. The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species Suggested Readings Discussion Questions Glossary Index
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