Author: Robert THOMAS (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Modern Practice of Physick, etc
Author: Robert THOMAS (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Modern Practice of Physic ... Seventh Edition, Revised and Considerably Enlarged, Etc
Author: Robert THOMAS (M.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes
Author: U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria: P to Z and addenda
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The modern practice of physic
Author: Robert ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
Author: Michael StrevensPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631491385
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise.” —Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work that blends science, philosophy, and history, leading philosopher of science Michael Strevens answers these challenging questions, showing how science came about only once thinkers stumbled upon the astonishing idea that scientific breakthroughs could be accomplished by breaking the rules of logical argument. Like such classic works as Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Knowledge Machine grapples with the meaning and origins of science, using a plethora of vivid historical examples to demonstrate that scientists willfully ignore religion, theoretical beauty, and even philosophy to embrace a constricted code of argument whose very narrowness channels unprecedented energy into empirical observation and experimentation. Strevens calls this scientific code the iron rule of explanation, and reveals the way in which the rule, precisely because it is unreasonably close-minded, overcomes individual prejudices to lead humanity inexorably toward the secrets of nature. “With a mixture of philosophical and historical argument, and written in an engrossing style” (Alan Ryan), The Knowledge Machine provides captivating portraits of some of the greatest luminaries in science’s history, including Isaac Newton, the chief architect of modern science and its foundational theories of motion and gravitation; William Whewell, perhaps the greatest philosopher-scientist of the early nineteenth century; and Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of the quark. Today, Strevens argues, in the face of threats from a changing climate and global pandemics, the idiosyncratic but highly effective scientific knowledge machine must be protected from politicians, commercial interests, and even scientists themselves who seek to open it up, to make it less narrow and more rational—and thus to undermine its devotedly empirical search for truth. Rich with illuminating and often delightfully quirky illustrations, The Knowledge Machine, written in a winningly accessible style that belies the import of its revisionist and groundbreaking concepts, radically reframes much of what we thought we knew about the origins of the modern world.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Author: Sir Thomas WATSON