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Historical and philosophical perspectives of science
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ISBN: 0816605920 9780816605927 Year: 1970 Volume: 5 Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press,

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To light such a candle : chapters in the history of science and technology
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ISBN: 0191587907 0585200971 9780191587900 9780585200972 0198500564 9780198500568 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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In To Light Such a Candle, renowned chemist and science historian Keith Laidler examines the progress of science and technology over the centuries, tracing the often separate paths of these pursuits, showing how they have ultimately worked together to transform everyday life. Faraday's pure research on electricity, for example, had immense technological implications, while Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic radiation led directly to the discovery of radio transmission, something of which Maxwell himself had no conception. Conversely, the early steam engines were by no means science-based, but they led directly to the science of thermodynamics, one of the most fundamental branches of pure science. Illuminated by many fascinating stories from the history of science, this book provides a powerful argument for the relevance of pure research, and gives the general reader and scientist alike an idea of the nature and importance of the links between science and technology.


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ISBN: 9077445056 Year: 2005 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

Man and nature in the renaissance
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ISBN: 0521293286 0521219728 9780521293280 9780521219723 Year: 1978 Publisher: London : Cambridge University Press,

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Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context of the period. Conversely, those authors who have emphasized the latter frequently play down the importance of the technical scientific developments. In this book, Professor Debus amalgamates these approaches: The exact sciences of the period are discussed in detail, but reference is constantly made to religious and philosophical concepts that play little part in the science of our own time. Thus, the renewed interest in mystical texts and the subsequent impact of alchemy, astrology, and natural magic on the development of modern science and medicine are central to the account. Major themes that are followed throughout the book include the effects of humanism, the search for a new method of science, and the dialogue between proponents of the mystical-occult world view and the mathematical-observational approach to nature.


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Science and society : historical essays on the relations of science, technology and medicine
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ISBN: 0860784002 Year: 1994 Volume: 434

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