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" An idiot's fugitive essays on science : "
C. Truesdell.
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874697
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Truesdell, C., (Clifford),1919-2000.
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An idiot's fugitive essays on science : : methods, criticism, training, circumstances /\ C. Truesdell.
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New York :: Springer-Verlag,, ©1984.
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xvii, 654 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 25 cm
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0387907033
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: 3540907033
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: 9780387907031
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: 9783540907039
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Experience, theory, and experiment (1955) -- The field viewpoint in classical physics -- Modern continuum mechanics in adolescence (1962) -- Purpose, method, and program of nonlinear continuum mechanics -- War, Socialism, and quantum mechanics -- The tradition of elasticity -- Statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics -- Our debt to the French tradition: "Catastrophes" and our search for structure today (1978, 1981) -- Draw from the model and imitate the antique (1979) -- The role of mathematics in science as exemplified by the work of the Bernoullis and Euler (1979, 1981) -- Conceptual analysis -- A comment on scientific writing (1954) -- Goldstein's "classical mechanics" (1950) -- Murnaghan's "finite deformation af an elastic solid " (1952).
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Genius and the establishment at a polite standstill in the modern university: Bateman (1976, 1981) -- The scholar's workshop and tools (1970,1976,1981) -- Has the private university a future: (1976) -- Is there a philosophy of science? (1973) -- Suppesian stews (1980/81) -- The scholar: a species threatened by professions (1972) -- The computer: ruin of science and threat to mankind (1979-1982) -- Of all and of none (1964).
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Novozhilov's "foundations of the nonlinear theory of elasticity (1953) -- Critical problems in the history of science (1961) -- Dugas' "histoire de la mecanique (1953) -- Jammer's "Concepts of mass in classical and modern physics (1963) -- Clagetts' "The science of mechanics in the middle ages" (1961) -- Stevin's works on mechanics (1957) -- Dugas' "La mecanique au XVII siecle" (1956) -- Costabel's "Leibniz and dynamics" (1975) -- John Bernoulli and L'hopital (1958) -- The works of James Bernoulli (1973) -- Daniel Bernoulli's "hydrodynamica" (1960) -- Rouse & Ince's "history of hydraulics" (1959) -- Hankin's "Jean d'Alembert" (1971) -- The mathematical and physical papers of G.G. Stokes (1966) -- Gillmor's "Coulomb" (1973) -- Timoshenko's "history of stength of materials" (1953) -- Szabo's "Geschichte der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer wichtigsten Anwendungen" (1979) -- Genius conquers and despises the establishment: Newton -- Genius turns the establishment ot profit: Euler -- The establisment stifles genius: Herapath and Waterston (1968, 1982).
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Mechanics.
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Science-- History.
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Scientists, Biography.
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Mechanics.
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Science-- history.
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Geschichte
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Mechanics.
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Mechanik
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Naturwissenschaften
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Philosophie
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Science-- Philosophy.
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Science.
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Scientists.
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Natuurwetenschappen.
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| Dewey Classification
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500
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Q126.8.T78 1984
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29260110sdnb
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CC 6100rvk
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NAT 001fstub
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SG 553rvk
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SG 700rvk
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