Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St Andrews 1976
In this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. On Natural Theology
- II. Harmony in Nature
- III. The Philosopher’s Stone
- IV. The Undying Fire
- V. A Tunnel Through the Earth
- VI. ‘And the Sun Stood Still’
- VII. Thinking with the Hands
- VIII. Physical and Mathematical Theories
- IX. Works of Nature, Works of Art
- X. Cleopatra’s Nose
- XI. The ‘Thinking Reed’
- Notes
- List of Illustrations
- The Text and Editorial Actions with Regard to It
- Acknowledgements