The Invention of physical science : intersections of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century : essays in honor of Erwin N. Hiebert /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[1992]
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| 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.