Télécharger le livre :  Empiricist Theories of Space
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This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topic is sparse.This...

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Parution : 2020-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging...

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Parution : 2020-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure
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This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to...

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Parution : 2020-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution
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This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding...

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Parution : 2019-11-18
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Weyl and the Problem of Space
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This book investigates Hermann Weyl’s work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards. It presents new material and opens the philosophical problem of space anew, crossing the disciplines of mathematics, history of science and philosophy. With a Kantian...

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Parution : 2019-10-09
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
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This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern...

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Parution : 2019-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  String Figures as Mathematics?
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This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed from anthropology, mathematics, history and philosophy of mathematics. The practice of string figure-making has long been...

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Parution : 2015-01-02
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  The Discourse of Sensibility
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This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of sensibility is...

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Parution : 2013-12-12
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Cartesian Empiricisms
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Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century. It aims to correct a partial image ofCartesian philosophers as paradigmatic system builders who failed to meet challenges...

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Parution : 2013-11-29
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Motion and Knowledge in the Changing Early Modern World
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This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the...

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Parution : 2013-11-08
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
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This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle and revisits the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical...

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Parution : 2013-10-21
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
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The aim of this book is to explore and understand the activities undertaken by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento, one of Europe’s first scientific societies.The Cimento operated for ten years, between 1657 and 1667, and during that time performed many experiments and...

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Parution : 2007-09-04
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  Rationality and Reality
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Alan Musgrave has consistently defended two positions that he regards as commonsensical – critical realism and critical rationalism. In defence of critcal realism he argues for the objective existence of the external world as opposed to idealism, as well as arguing for...

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Parution : 2006-07-25
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
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One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our daily lives are truly remarkable. But what is often taken for granted is...

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Parution : 2006-06-28
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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Télécharger le livre :  A Subtle and Mysterious Machine
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Walter Charleton is an intriguing character—he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries. We catch sight of him 1 conversing with Pepys about teeth,...

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Parution : 2006-01-20
Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
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