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" The Invention of Physical Science : "
edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer.
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BL
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713974
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b536123
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edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer.
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The Invention of Physical Science : : Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert\ edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer.
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Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1992
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science, 139.
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(xxxiv, 278 pages)
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9401124884
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: 9789401124881
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I. Natural Theology, Natural Philosophy and the Certainty of Mathematics --;Devils' Hells and Astronomers' Heavens: Religion, Method, and Popular Culture in Speculations about Life on Comets --;The Doctrine of Chances without Chance: Determinism, Mathematical Probability, and Quantification in the Seventeenth Century --;God, Truth, and Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century England --;II. Problems of Contingency, Coherence, and Truth --;Theologians, Science, and Theories of Truth in Nineteenth-Century Germany --;Equivalence, Pragmatic Platonism, and Discovery of the Calculus --;III. The Aims and Foundations of Physical Science: The Cases of Electrical Physics, Psychophysics, and Physical Chemistry --;The Training of German Research Physicist Heinrich Hertz --;From Psychophysics to Phenomenalism: Mach and Hering on Color Vision --;A Usable Past: Creating Disciplinary Space for Physical Chemistry --;IV. Explanation and Discovery: The Claims of Chemistry, Physics, and Fortran --;Physics and Chemistry: Commensurate or Incommensurate Sciences? --;FORTRAN, Physics, and Human Nature --;APPENDIX I. Erwin N. Hiebert's Doctoral Students and Directed Dissertations --;APPENDIX II. Erwin N. Hiebert. Selected List of Publications --;Notes on Contributors --;Name Index.
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Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations.
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History.
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Philosophy (General)
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Joan L Richards
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Mary Jo Nye
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Roger H Stuewer
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