Perspectives in the history of science and technology / Edited by Duane H. D. Roller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roller, Duane H. D. (Duane Henry Du Bose), 1920-1994, editor.

University of Oklahoma. Press, publisher, printer.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

History.

Technology--History.

Technology.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

Summary:

This collection of articles ranges from pure science to pragmatic proposals for betterment of the environment.

Contents:

The Kuhnian paradigm and the Darwinian revolution in natural history / John C. Greene

The counter-Reformation in eighteenth-century science -last phase / Robert E. Schofield

The energetics controversy and the new thermodynamics / Erwin N. Hiebert

The car and the road: highway technology and highway policy / John B. Rae

Art, science, and technology: notes on their historical interaction / Cyril Stanley Smith

Stages in the development of Newton's dynamics / Richard S. Westfall

Uniformity and progression: reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell / Martin J.S. Rudwick

Archimedes in the late Middle Ages / Marshall Clagett

Stephen Moulton Babcock -benevolent skeptic / Aaron J. Ihde

The science of history and the history of science / Joseph T. Clark.

Notes:

"Copyright 1971 by the University of Oklahoma Press... Composed and printed at Norman ... by the University of Oklahoma Press"--verso of title page.

Papers presented at a symposium at the University of Oklahoma April 8-12, 1969.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

0806109521

OCLC:

159862