For Dirk Struik. Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. Struik. - eerste uitgave

EAN (ISBN-13): 9789027703934
ISBN (ISBN-10): 9027703930
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Verschijningsjaar: 1974
Uitgever: Kluwer Academic Publishers
690 Bladzijden
Gewicht: 1,186 kg
Taal: eng/Englisch

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Auteur van het boek: john robert, wartofsky, cohen robert, stach, john stachel, marx, struik, cerny, stache, dirk anders
Titel van het boek: for dirk struik, history philosophy, boston studies the philosophy science, miraculous annus, for his, historical political essays, ist dirk, historical band, honor and the political, struik scientific political essays

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Gegevens van de uitgever

Auteur: Robert S. Cohen; J.J. Stachel; Marx W. Wartofsky
Titel: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science; For Dirk Struik - Scientific, Historical and Political Essays in Honor of Dirk J. Struik
Uitgeverij: Springer; Springer Netherland
657 Bladzijden
Verschijningsjaar: 1974-10-31
Dordrecht; NL
Taal: Engels
299,59 € (DE)
307,99 € (AT)
330,50 CHF (CH)
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XXVII, 657 p.

BB; Hardcover, Softcover / Philosophie/Allgemeines, Lexika; Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie; Verstehen; education; falsification; history of science; scientific practice; scientific revolution; Philosophy of Science; BC; EA

I/Mathematics.- The Lemniscate of Bernoulli.- Summation of Series of Fractions Depending upon the Roots of the Airy Function.- Wave Propagation in Non-Viscous Fluids.- Polyhedral Numbers.- Materialist Mathematics.- Skew Curves Setting up a Null System in Space.- Über ein Beispiel zur unbestimmten Analytik und seine allgemeine Bedeutung.- Remarks on Two-By-Two Matric Semigroups.- A Unified Approach to Hypernumbers.- Some Remarks on the Concept of Limit.- La notion de fonction chez Condorcet.- II/History of Mathematics and Science.- The Modern Use of Historical Chinese Solar Observations.- The Second Part of Chapter 5 of the De arte mensurandi by Johannes de Muris.- Isaac Newton, the Calculus of Variations, and the Design of Ships. An Example of Pure Mathematics in Newton’s Principia, Allegedly Developed for the Sake of Practical Applications.- The Impact of von Staudt’s Foundations of Geometry.- Georg Samuel Dörffel.- Observational, Rational and Scientific Medicine in Mexico.- History of Science: A Subject for the Frustrated. Recent Japanese Experience.- The Relation between Eudoxus’ Theory of Proportions and Dedekind’s Theory of Cuts.- Rheticus as Editor of Sacrobosco.- Is Euclid on the Skids?.- John Pell’s English Edition of J. H. Rahn’s Teutsche Algebra.- Could the Specific Heat of the Elements Have Contributed to the Discovery of the Periodic System?.- III/The Nature Of Mathematics, Philosophy and Science.- Die Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung an der Akademie der Wissenschaften der D.D.R. — Ergebnisse und Ziele.- Ethics and Science.- A Religion of Earth. The Twentieth Century Scientific Revolution and Organized Religion.- Some Heretical Ideas with Respect to Mathematics and Physics.- A Note on Robert Hodes.- Aims and Methods of Scientific Research.-The Concept of ‘Simplicity’ in the Physico-Mathematical Sciences.- Should Science Survive Its Success?.- Jonathan Edwards on the Freedom of the Will.- The Accelerator and the Virgin: The Rise & Fall of Two Cults.- A Note on the Concept of Scientific Practice.- Ideology, Expression, and Mediation.- Is Science Rational?.- On the Philosophical Meaning of Observational Errors.- IV/Cultural and Political Questions.- Falsification in History.- The Evolution of Black Nationalism (1971).- The Secret of Jheronimus Bosch.- Self-Determination in Theory and Practice.- The Appeal of Marxism in the United States.- Relative Values and the Quest for Socio-Political Standards.- Dirk Struik and the Sociology of Science.- What Is Burgerlijk? Analysis of a Dutch Concept.- American Anti-Imperialism and the Russian Revolution.- Lenin and the Americans at Kuzbas.- Pre-School Education and Its Role in Social Change: A New Zealand Example.- Toward a Critique of Economics.