عنوان

The Invention of Physical Science :

(Number (ISBN

9401124884

(Number (ISBN

9789401124881

Number

b536123

Title Proper

The Invention of Physical Science :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xxxiv, 278 pages)

Series Title

Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 139.

Text of Note

I. Natural Theology, Natural Philosophy and the Certainty of Mathematics --;Devils' Hells and Astronomers' Heavens: Religion, Method, and Popular Culture in Speculations about Life on Comets --;The Doctrine of Chances without Chance: Determinism, Mathematical Probability, and Quantification in the Seventeenth Century --;God, Truth, and Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century England --;II. Problems of Contingency, Coherence, and Truth --;Theologians, Science, and Theories of Truth in Nineteenth-Century Germany --;Equivalence, Pragmatic Platonism, and Discovery of the Calculus --;III. The Aims and Foundations of Physical Science: The Cases of Electrical Physics, Psychophysics, and Physical Chemistry --;The Training of German Research Physicist Heinrich Hertz --;From Psychophysics to Phenomenalism: Mach and Hering on Color Vision --;A Usable Past: Creating Disciplinary Space for Physical Chemistry --;IV. Explanation and Discovery: The Claims of Chemistry, Physics, and Fortran --;Physics and Chemistry: Commensurate or Incommensurate Sciences? --;FORTRAN, Physics, and Human Nature --;APPENDIX I. Erwin N. Hiebert's Doctoral Students and Directed Dissertations --;APPENDIX II. Erwin N. Hiebert. Selected List of Publications --;Notes on Contributors --;Name Index.

Text of Note

Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations.

History.

Philosophy (General)

Science -- Philosophy.

edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer.

Joan L Richards

Mary Jo Nye

Roger H Stuewer

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