A. C. CROMBIE (ED.)
Scientific change. Historical studies in the intellectual, social and technical conditions for scientific discovery and technical invention, from antiquity to the present
London, Heinemann, 1963, 1st. large octavo, Hardcover (cloth), met stofomslag. 896 pp. No images. Conditie: Very good, name on endpaper, otherwise insides clean and tight. Not a library book. o.a. Ludwig Edelstein: Motives and incentives for science in antiquity. 15-41. S. Sambursky: Conceptual developments and modes of explanation in later greek scientific thought. 61-78. Joseph Needham: Poverties and triumphs of the Chinese scientific tradition. 117-153. S. Pines; What was original in Arabic science? Guy Beaujouan: Motives and opportunities for science in the medieval universities. 219-236. John E. Murdoch: The medieval language of proportions: elements of the interaction with Greek foundations and the development of new mathematical techniques. 237-271. Lynn White: What accelerated technological progress in the Western Middle Ages: 272-291. Thomas Kuhn: The function of dogma in scientific research. 347-369. Gerd Buchdahl: Descartes? anticipation of a ?logic of scientific discovery?. 399-417. Maurice Dumas: Precision of measurement and physical and chemical research in the eighteenth century. 418-430. C. C. Gillispie: Intellectual factors in the background of analysis by probabilities. 431-453. D. H. Wilkinson: Physical concepts that cannot be assimilated to instrumentation. 454-457. B. A. Farrell: Scientific approaches to psychology: clinical and objective psychology, a problem of scientific method. 562-576. D. S. L. Cardwell: The development of scientific research in modern universities: a comparative study of motives and opportunities. 661-677. C. F. Carter: Economic incentives for and consequences of technical invention. 678-690. A. T. Grigoryan and B. G. Kuznetsov: The organization of science in Russia in relation to the development of scientific thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 691-700.
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