Short History of Scientific Thought

Name: Short History of Scientific Thought
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ISBN: 9780230019430

ISBN-10: 0230019439

ISBN-13: 9780230019430

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Henry

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Introduction


Setting the Scene


Plato and Aristotle


From the Roman Empire to the Empire of Islam


The Western Middle Ages


The Renaissance


New Methods of Science


Bringing Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Together


Practice and Theory in Renaissance Medicine: William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood


The Spirit of System: RenÃ© 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 to John 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 Victorian Britain: 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