The World As We Know It : From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dear, Peter.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences , a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of science Science is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: Natural Philosophy and the Sciences

1. Divine Order: Isaac Newton and Physico-Theology

2. Celestial Order and Universal Gravity

3. Mixed Mathematics and Probability

4. Inventories of Electricity

5. Organization: Living Things

6. Cleaning up Chemistry: The Classification of Matter

7. Laplace, Revolutionary Order, and the Invention of Mathematical Physics

Entr'acte: Institutions and Pedagogy

8. Classification and Extinction: Cuvier and Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century

9. Darwin's Taxonomy: Geology and the Organization of Life

10. Evolution and Scientific Naturalism

11. Thermodynamics and Modern Physics

12. Chance and Determinism: New Models of Science

13. Electromagnetism, Action at a Distance, and Aether

14. The Chemical Use of Atoms

15. Laboratories of the Heavens: Physics in the Observatory

16. New Modes of Natural Philosophy

Conclusion. The World We Have Gained . . . and Lost

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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ISBN:

0-691-23585-6

OCLC:

1528962170