Author: A. C. CROMBIE (ED.)
Title: Scientific change. Historical studies in the intellectual, social and technical conditions for scientific discovery and technical invention, from antiquity to the present
Description: 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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