Creatures of Reason: John Herschel and the Invention of Science
Autor Stephen Caseen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 noi 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822948384
ISBN-10: 0822948389
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10: 0822948389
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Recenzii
“In approachable and occasionally sparkling prose, Case entices his readers to share in John Herschel’s passionate adventure in search of love, light, and a meaningful life of science. He has pulled tight the broad sweep of Herschel’s interests and tamed his ‘thickets of equations,’ successfully knitting mathematics and astronomy together with scientific politics and the writing of the Preliminary Discourse into a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening tale of Herschel’s vision for modern science.”
—Kelley Wilder, De Montfort University
“John Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830) was one of the most significant works in philosophy and science in the first half of the nineteenth century, setting the tone and guiding the aims of a generation of inquirers. This fully documented and clearly written book shows convincingly how Herschel’s earlier fascinations with travel and telescopes, with experiment and education, led to a remarkable exercise in reforming philosophy and scientific guidance. Stephen Case’s study gives the Preliminary Discourse and its author a central place in the forging of the principles and practice of the modern sciences.”
—Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
“Rich in revealing and often amusing anecdotes, Stephen Case’s study of John Herschel is not just a first-rate biography but an invaluable analysis of nineteenth-century scientific culture. As Case ably demonstrates, Herschel was crucial to the transition of natural philosophy into what we now know as ‘modern science.’ This is a much-needed intervention into the history of science. In this deftly argued book, Case shows why Herschel matters to the complex relationship between society and science that dominates our world today.”
—Edward Gillin, University College London
—Kelley Wilder, De Montfort University
“John Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830) was one of the most significant works in philosophy and science in the first half of the nineteenth century, setting the tone and guiding the aims of a generation of inquirers. This fully documented and clearly written book shows convincingly how Herschel’s earlier fascinations with travel and telescopes, with experiment and education, led to a remarkable exercise in reforming philosophy and scientific guidance. Stephen Case’s study gives the Preliminary Discourse and its author a central place in the forging of the principles and practice of the modern sciences.”
—Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
“Rich in revealing and often amusing anecdotes, Stephen Case’s study of John Herschel is not just a first-rate biography but an invaluable analysis of nineteenth-century scientific culture. As Case ably demonstrates, Herschel was crucial to the transition of natural philosophy into what we now know as ‘modern science.’ This is a much-needed intervention into the history of science. In this deftly argued book, Case shows why Herschel matters to the complex relationship between society and science that dominates our world today.”
—Edward Gillin, University College London
Notă biografică
Stephen Case is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Geosciences at Olivet Nazarene University, where he is also director of the University Honors Program. He is the author of Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel and coeditor of the Cambridge Companion to John Herschel.
Descriere
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press list of scholarly History of Science titles