The Growth of Scientific Ideas

Yale Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1964 Book condition, Etat : Moyen paperback In-8 1 vol. - 495 pages

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8 plates and 55 figures 1st = 1951 "Contents, Chapitres : birth of scientific ideas - all nature for their province - order and number - geometry of the heavens, the Greek contribution, the Earth dethroned - telescope and its revelation - rise of terrestrial mechanics - dawn of universal mechanics - mathematics of moving bodies - newtonian revolution - is the law of gravitation true - celebrated phenomena of colours - on waves and waviness - ""the subject of the verb to ondulate"" - the search for the elements of matter - the burning question - the ""subtle fluids (caloric, magnetic and electric) - frog and discover - when is an atom not an atom - Newton of electricity - from coloured frames to star stuff - the ""go"" of things - from particles to fields - life - organisms as machines - microscope and origin of life - what's in a name - structural units, static theory of forms - history of history, dynamic theory of forms - darwinian revolution - inside story of life - continuity and organization" exemplaire de Pierre Thuillier, très nombreuses annotations