|
|
|
|
| LEADER |
05056nmm a2200337 u 4500 |
| 001 |
EB000712208 |
| 003 |
EBX01000000000000000565290 |
| 005 |
00000000000000.0 |
| 007 |
cr||||||||||||||||||||| |
| 008 |
140122 ||| eng |
| 020 |
|
|
|a 9789400936232
|
| 100 |
1 |
|
|a Jaki, St.L.
|
| 245 |
0 |
0 |
|a Uneasy Genius: The Life And Work Of Pierre Duhem
|h Elektronische Ressource
|c by St.L. Jaki
|
| 250 |
|
|
|a 1st ed. 1987
|
| 260 |
|
|
|a Dordrecht
|b Springer Netherlands
|c 1987, 1987
|
| 300 |
|
|
|a 480 p. 23 illus
|b online resource
|
| 505 |
0 |
|
|a Philosopher on trial -- The Théorie physique -- Critics of the Théorie physique -- Christian positivism -- French philosophers -- American dissertations -- The crux of the matter -- 10. Duhem the Historian -- A special historian -- To unsuspected headwaters -- Continuity through Leonardo -- The source of continuous growth -- Scholarship as apologetics -- The quest for completeness -- A gamut of reactions -- Attitudes toward a new vision -- The Renaissance threatened -- Posthumous volumes -- An age in the middle -- List of Duhem’s Publications -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
|
| 505 |
0 |
|
|a A string of doctorates and their perspective -- A great first ignored -- Prodigious productivity and a recognition -- Life at home -- Avid hiker -- A chair and its political prize -- A small speech as a big crime -- In a clash for a sacred cause -- 6. Bordeaux: Journey’s En -- A companionable solitary -- Intransigent integrity -- Twice bereaved -- Relentless work and growing recognition -- A drawn-out election -- A student forever -- Waging his war to the end -- 7. In Memoriam -- Din of war and summer lull -- Bordeaux remembers -- The first anniversary -- Postwar reminiscences -- Some noble efforts -- Missed anniversaries -- Illustrations -- 8. Duhem the Physicist -- The making of a physicist -- The physicist as seen by himself -- The physicist and his peers -- A narrowing advance -- The physicist and posterity -- 9. Duhem the Philosopher -- Common sensewith a realist touch -- Attitude to metaphysics -- Rigor as strength and weakness -- Philosophy through history --
|
| 505 |
0 |
|
|a 1. Young Pierre -- Parents, home and early years -- Eyewitness to a fateful year -- Collège Stanislas -- Life at Stanislas -- Young scholar -- Personal exploits -- Teachers remembered -- Ready for the grandes écoles -- 2. The Normalien -- A far cry from ‘normal’ school -- Cacique général -- An ill-fated thesis -- Anticlericals versus Catholics -- Sailing on waters and events -- Under Pasteur’s eyes -- Young man in pursuit of rigor -- 3. Lecturer in Lille -- Citadel against citadel -- Encomiums from officialdom -- A brilliant doctorate -- Students in awe -- A vibrant faculty group -- Portrait of a mind -- Politics: ordinary and academic -- Married and widowed -- Comforts and frustrations of science -- Crushing weight of stacked cards -- 4. In Transit in Rennes -- A not so somnolent town -- Frustrated teacher -- Creating a stir -- In the center of a debate -- Scholar in a wrong place -- 5. Bordeaux: A Road to Paris? -- From home to university -- A chair and a department --
|
| 653 |
|
|
|a Philosophy, Modern
|
| 653 |
|
|
|a Early Modern Philosophy
|
| 653 |
|
|
|a History
|
| 653 |
|
|
|a Science / Philosophy
|
| 653 |
|
|
|a Philosophy of Science
|
| 041 |
0 |
7 |
|a eng
|2 ISO 639-2
|
| 989 |
|
|
|b SBA
|a Springer Book Archives -2004
|
| 490 |
0 |
|
|a International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
|
| 028 |
5 |
0 |
|a 10.1007/978-94-009-3623-2
|
| 856 |
4 |
0 |
|u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3623-2?nosfx=y
|x Verlag
|3 Volltext
|
| 082 |
0 |
|
|a 900
|
| 520 |
|
|
|a A hundred years have now gone by since in the midsummer of 1882 Pierre Duhem, a graduate of College Stanislas, completed with brilliant success his entrance exams to the Ecole Normale Superieure and embarked on his career as a theoretical physicist. His father, a textile salesman, hoped that Hierre would pursue a career in business, one of the few professional fields where perhaps he would not have succeeded. Not that young Duhem lacked sense for the practical. He could have easily made a name for himself as an artist had he developed professionally his skill to draw portraits and landscapes. His ability to make a point and his readiness to join in a debate, could have earned him fame as a lawyer. A potential actor was in sight when he entertained friends with mimicry. That as a student of physics he entered and stayed first in his class at the Ecole Normale, did not thwart his talents for the life sciences. No less a biologist than Pasteur tried to obtain Duhem for assistant. His command of Greek and Latin would have secured him a career as a classicist. He was a Frenchman, not to be met too often, whose rightful ad miration for and mastery of his native tongue, did not prove a barrier to the major modern languages. As one who taught himself the complex art of medieval paleo graphy, he could easily have mastered the many auxiliary sciences needed by a consummate historian
|