A short history of scientific thought
By: John Henry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780230019430
Subjects: HISTORY / General; Science and civilization; Science; Philosophy; SCIENCE / History; HISTORY / Modern / General; Natural history; History; Western Civilization
Description: "A highly readable historical survey of the major developments in scientific thought and the impact of science on Western culture, this book takes the reader from ancient times through to the twentieth century. Organized chronologically, the book explores the history of studies of the natural world, and man's role within that world, in a single volume"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: Setting the Scene; title: Plato and Aristotle; title: From the Roman Empire to the Empire of Islam; title: The Western Middle Ages; title: The Renaissance; title: New Methods of Science; title: Bringing Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Together; title: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Medicine: William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood; title: The Spirit of System: Rene; Descartes and the Mechanical Philosophy; title: The Royal Society and Experimental Philosophy; title: Experiment, Mathematics, and Magic: Isaac Newton; title: Newton's Legacy: Forces and Fluids (electricity and heat); title: The Chemical Revolution: From Newton to John Dalton, via Priestley and Lavoisier; title: Natural Theology and Natural Order: Newtonian Optimism and the History of Science; title: The Making of Geology: From James Hutton to Charles Lyell via Catastrophism; title: The History of Plants and Animals: Successive Emergence or Evolution?; title: Religion and Progress in Victorian Britain: Robert Chambers versus Hugh Miller; title: Bringing it All Together?: Charles Darwin's Evolution; title: Darwinian Aftermaths: Religion; Social Science; Biology; title: Beyond Newton: Energy and Thermodynamics; title: Newton deposed: Einstein and Relativity Theory; title: Mathematics instead of a World Picture: From Atomism to Quantum Theory; title: Afterword.