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An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science

Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances

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  1. C. Truesdell

    1. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Criticism: Selected Reviews

    1. The Light of History Upon the Present

      1. Jammer’s <i>Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics</i> (1963)
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        Pages 170-173
      2. Clagett’s <i>the Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages</i> (1961)
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        Pages 174-177
      3. Stevin’s Works on Mechanics (1957)
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        Pages 178-179
      4. Dugas’ <i>La Mécanique au XVII</i><sup><i>e</i></sup> <i>Siècle</i> (1956)
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        Pages 180-185
      5. Costabel’s <i>Leibniz and Dynamics</i> (1975)
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        Pages 186-187
      6. John Bernoulli and L’hôpital (1958)
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        Pages 188-201
      7. The Works of James Bernoulli (1973)
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        Pages 202-208
      8. Daniel Bernoulli’s <i>Hydrodynamica</i> (1960)
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        Pages 209-211
      9. Rouse &amp; Ince’s <i>History of Hydraulics</i> (1959)
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        Pages 212-217
      10. Hankins’ <i>Jean D’Alembert</i> (1971)
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        Pages 218-222
      11. The <i>Mathematical and Physical Papers</i> of G. G. Stokes (1966)
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        Pages 223-235
      12. Gillmor’s <i>Coulomb</i> (1973)
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        Pages 236-250
      13. Timoshenko’s <i>History of Strength of Materials</i> (1953)
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        Pages 251-253
      14. Szabò’s Geschichte der Mechanischen Prinzipien und Ihrer Wichtigsten Anwendungen (1979)
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        Pages 254-265

  3. Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 439-439
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About this book

When, after the agreeable fatigues of solicitation, Mrs Millamant set out a long bill of conditions subject to which she might by degrees dwindle into a wife, Mirabell offered in return the condition that he might not thereby be beyond measure enlarged into a husband. With age and experience in research come the twin dangers of dwindling into a philosopher of science while being enlarged into a dotard. The philosophy of science, I believe, should not be the preserve of senile scientists and of teachers of philosophy who have themselves never so much as understood the contents of a textbook of theoretical physics, let alone done a bit of mathematical research or even enjoyed the confidence of a creating scientist. On the latter count I run no risk: Any reader will see that I am untrained (though not altogether unread) in classroom philosophy. Of no ignorance of mine do I boast, indeed I regret it, but neither do I find this one ignorance fatal here, for few indeed of the great philosophers to explicate whose works hodiernal professors of phil­ osophy destroy forests of pulp were themselves so broadly and specially trained as are their scholiasts. In attempt to palliate the former count I have chosen to collect works written over the past thirty years, some of them not published before, and I include only a few very recent essays.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    C. Truesdell

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: An Idiot’s Fugitive Essays on Science

  • Book Subtitle: Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances

  • Authors: C. Truesdell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8185-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8187-7Published: 08 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-8185-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 654

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Mathematics, general, History of Mathematical Sciences, Physics, general

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