{"product_id":"the-history-and-philosophy-of-science-a-reader-9781474232722","title":"The History and Philosophy of Science  A Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time.With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed to:  read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history and philosophy of science  understand and evaluate scientific material found in a wide variety of professional and popular settings  appreciate the social and cultural context in which scientific ideas emerge  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection aptly unites, and thematically arranges, some of the most important sources in the history of the biological and physical sciences from antiquity through the end of the 19th century. The volume is designed for use in upper division or graduate history and philosophy of science courses and affords instructors ready access to key texts from a near-comprehensive range of time periods. The book stops before the 20th century, but this limitation ensures that the sources it includes are broadly accessible to students without advanced scientific training. The selection of sources is careful, and the translations (where applicable) are fluid ... Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and their instructors. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eMcKaughan and VandeWall set off on a difficult quest: to bottle two millennia of our species' best thoughts about the world and our place in it into a single collection, to do it without overwhelming the new reader with a deluge of opaque material, to cover the ever-expanding panoply of disciplines and practices, and through it all to not lose sight of that humbling sense of wonder at nature that our ancestors experienced and that we who stand on the shoulders of giants would do well to remember. I can’t wait to share this with my own students. * Erik L. Peterson, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, The University of Alabama, USA *\u003cbr\u003eCan an education in the history \u0026amp; philosophy of science be distilled into a single volume? The McKaughan \u0026amp; VandeWall anthology has done so. It reflects the conviction that historians of science ought to be well trained as philosophers of science and \u003ci\u003evice versa\u003c\/i\u003e. This collection is an extremely rich resource for both encountering science (natural philosophy) as it really was and for discerning progress. It samples generously from oft-neglected eras, regions, disciplines, and authors. Having designed a course in the history \u0026amp; philosophy of science myself, I really appreciate this book. * J. Brian Pitts, Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, UK. *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimeline  Introduction, Daniel J. McKaughan and Holly VandeWall  \u003cb\u003ePart I. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND MATHEMATICS \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003e Plato, Philebus  Plato, Republic  Plato, Timaeus  Lucretius, On The Nature of Things  Aristotle, Categories Aristotle, Posterior Analytics  Aristotle, Physics  Aristotle, On the Heavens  Aristotle, Meteorology  Aristotle, De Anima  Aristotle, Parts of Animals  Aristotle, Generation of Animals  Euclid, Elements  Apollonius, The Conics  Ptolemy, Introduction to the Almagest  Avicenna, De Mineralibus  Al-Biruni, Letters to Avicenna on Aristotelian Astronomy and Physics  Aquinas, On the Motion of the Heart  Buridan, Questions on Aristotelian Philosophy Oresme, A Treatise on the Configuration of Qualities and Motions  S\u003ci\u003euggested Readings  Discussion Questions \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II. TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: MECHANICS AND ASTRONOMY \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003e Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres Osiander, Preface to On the Revolutions  Tycho Brahe, Preface to The Improved Mechanic Astronomy  Kepler, Astronomia Nova  Galileo, Message to Cosimo de’Medici  Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems  Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two New Sciences  Descartes, Discourse on Method  Descartes, Principles of Philosophy  Descartes, Le Monde Bacon, The New Organon  Bacon, The New Atlantis  Newton, Principia  Huygens, Treatise on Light  Newton, Opticks  Newton, Letter to Oldenberg  Buffon, On the Formation of the Planets  \u003ci\u003eSuggested Readings  Discussion Questions \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE:  CHEMISTRY, HEAT, AND THE UNIFICATION OF FORCES \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003e Hermes Trismegistus, The Emerald Tablet  Paracelsus, Of the Nature of Things  Newton, The Key and Commentary on the Emerald Tablet  Boyle, On the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Hypothesis  Boyle, Experimental Researches on Combustion  Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist  Becher, Concerning the First Principle of Metals and Stones  Stahl, Preliminaries  Priestley, Of Dephlogisticated Air  Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry  Young, On the Theory of Light and Colors  Dalton, A New System of Chemical Philosophy  Gay-Lussac, Memoir on the Combination of Gases  Avagadro, Determining Relative Masses of Elementary Molecules  Oersted, The Electromagnetic Effect (4 pages) Faraday, Lectures on Electricity and Magnetism  Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity  Carnot, Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire  Clausius, On the Nature of the Motion We Call Heat Maxwell, A Dynamical Theory of the ElectroMagnetic Field  Canizzaro, Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy  Mendeleev, Relation between Properties and Atomic Weights  Kelvin, On the Dynamical Theory of Heat  \u003ci\u003eSuggested Readings  Discussion Questions \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart IV: THE SPECIALIZATION OF NATURAL HISTORY:  THE HUMAN ANIMAL, ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, AND GEOLOGY \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003e William Harvey, Concerning the Movement of the Heart and Blood  Descartes, Treatise on Man  Hooke, Micrographia Schwann, Microscopical Investigations  Buffon, Natural History “Second Discourse”  Buffon, On the Generation and Species of Animals  Linnaeus, On the Increase of the Habitable Earth  Linnaeus, Economy of Nature  Cuvier, On the Revolutions of the Earthly Globe  Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy  Cuvier, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Natural History of Fishes  Lyell, Principles of Geology  Paley, Natural Theology  Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population  Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization \u003ci\u003eSuggested Readings  Discussion Questions \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart V. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY:  DARWINISM AND ITS RECEPTION \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/i\u003e A. R. Wallace, On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Darwin, The Origin of Species  Darwin, Descent of Man  Darwin, Variation of Plants and Animals “Pangenesis” Kelvin, On the Age of the Earth:  Uniformity Briefly Refuted and Of Geological Dynamics  Jenkin, Review of the Origin of the Species  Sedgwick, Objections to Mr. Darwin’s Theory  Owen, Darwin on the Origin of Species  Gray, Darwin and His Reviewers  Agassiz, Methods in the Study of Natural History  Huxley, T. H., The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species  \u003ci\u003eSuggested Readings  Discussion Questions\u003c\/i\u003e  Glossary Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187607363927,"sku":"9781474232722","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-history-and-philosophy-of-science-a-reader-9781474232722","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}