The Invention of physical science : intersections of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century : essays in honor of Erwin N. Hiebert /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hiebert, Erwin N., 1919-2012, Nye, Mary Jo, Richards, Joan L., 1948-, Stuewer, Roger H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1992]
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 139.
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Table of Contents:
  • Devils' hells and astronomers' heavens / Sara Schechner Genuth
  • The doctrine of chances without chance / Lorraine J. Daston
  • God, truth, and mathematics in nineteenth-century England / Joan L. Richards
  • Theologians, science, and theories of truth in nineteenth-century Germany / Frederick Gregory
  • Equivalence, pragmatic platonism, and discovery of the calculus / Skuli Sigurdsson
  • The training of German research physicists Heinrich Hertz / Jed Buchwald
  • From psychophysics to phenomenalism / Richard L. Kremer
  • A usable past : creating disciplinary space for physical chemistry / Diana Kormos Barkan
  • Physics and chemistry : commensurate or incommensurate sciences? / Mary Jo Nye
  • FORTRAN, physics, and human nature / Peter Galison.