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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 139)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Natural Theology, Natural Philosophy, and the Certainty of Mathematics
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Problems of Contingency, Coherence, and Truth
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The Aims and Foundations of Physical Science: The Cases of Electrical Physics, Psychophysics, and Physical Chemistry
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Explanation and Discovery: The Claims of Chemistry, Physics, and Fortran
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About this book
The rigidity of these divisions and differentiations is relatively new. Modern physical science was invented slowly and gradually through interactions of the aims and contents of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century. In essays ranging in focus from seventeenth-century interpretations of heavenly comets to twentieth-century explanations of tracks in bubble chambers, ten historians of science demonstrate metaphysical and theological threads continuing to underpin the epistemology and practice of the physical sciences and mathematics, even while they became disciplinary specialties during the last three centuries. The volume is prefaced by tributes to Erwin N. Hiebert, whose teaching and scholarship have addressed and inspired attention to these issues.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Invention of Physical Science
Book Subtitle: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy Since the Seventeenth Century Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert
Editors: Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2488-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1753-1Published: 30 September 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5097-5Published: 06 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2488-1Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 278
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general