History and philosophy of science
Subtitle: selected papers
By: edited by Joseph W. Dauben and Virginia Staudt Sexton.
Contributors: Dauben, Joseph Warren, 1944-; Sexton, Virginia Staudt.; New York Academy of Sciences. Section of History, Philosophy, and Ethical Issues of Science and Technology.
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ;; v. 412
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Science -- History; Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Selection of papers presented at monthly meetings of the Section of History, Philosophy, and Ethical Issues of Science and Technology of the New York Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1981.
Table of contents: title: Medical care in the countryside near Paris, 1800-1914 / by Evelyn Ackerman; title: The developing technology of apparatus in psychology's early laboratories / by Fairfid M. Caudle; title: Mathematical probability and the reasonable man of the eighteenth century / by Lorraine J. Daston; title: Non-Euclidean geometry and Weierstrassian mathematics / by Thomas Hawkins; title: Bell Laboratories / by Deirdre LaPorte; title: Contextualism and the character of developmental psychology in the 1970s / by Richard M. Lerner, David F. Hultsch, and Roger A. Dixon; title: Lebesgue's measure problem and Zermelo's axiom of choice / by Gregory H. Moore; title: Reflections on Italian medical writings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / by Nancy G. Siraisi.