Studies in the history and method of science
By: edited by Charles Singer.
Publisher: Clarendon press
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Subjects: Science -- History; Medicine -- History
Description: This is a collection of essays by several authorities.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1] Singer, Charles. The scientific views and visions of Saint Hildegard (1098-1180).; title: Jenkinson, J.W. Vitalism.; title: Singer, Charles. A study in early renaissance anatomy, with a new text: The Anothomia of Hieronymo Manfredi, transcribed and tr. by A. Mildred Westland.; title: Crawfurd, Raymond. The blessing of cramp-rings; a chapter in the history of the treatment of epilepsy.; title: Withington, E.T. Dr. John Weyer and the witch mania.; title: Levy, Reuben. The 'Tractatus de causis et indiciis morborum', attributed to Maimonides.; title: Schiller, F.C.S. Scientific discovery and logical proof.; title: v. 2. Singer, Charles. Greek biology and its relation to the rise of modern biology.; title: Dreyer, J.L.E. Mediaeval astronomy.; title: Steele, Robert. Roger Bacon and the state of science in the thirteenth century.; title: Hopstock, H. Leonardo as anatomist. Tr. from the Norwegian by E.A. Fleming.; title: Withington, E.T. The Asclepiadae and the priests of Asclepius.; title: Fahie, J.J. The scientific works of Galileo (1564-1642) With some account of his life and trial.; title: Cole, F.J. The history of anatomical injections.; title: Marvin, F.S. Science and the unity of mankind.; title: Conybeare, F.C. Four Armenian tracts on the structure of the human body.; title: Singer, Charles. Steps leading to the invention of the first optical apparatus.; title: Schiller, F.C.S. Hypothesis.; title: Jenkinson, J.W. Science and metaphysics.; title: Arber, E.A.N. A sketch of the history of palaeobotany.; title: Child, J.M. Archimedes' principle of the balance, and some criticisms upon it.; title: Platt, Arthur. Aristotle on the heart.; title: Appendix to article x.