Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Early Science in Oxford: The Philosophical Society
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Early Science in Oxford ...
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Early Science in Oxford: The biological sciences. The biological collections
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Early Science in Oxford ...
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Early Science in Oxford
Author: Early Science in Oxford
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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The Spirit of Inquiry
Author: Susannah GibsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192569880
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows took a geological fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight. Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow spent their days there exploring, unearthing dazzling fossils, dreaming up elaborate theories about the formation of the earth, and bemoaning the lack of serious science in their ancient university. As they threw themselves into the exciting new science of geology - conjuring millions of years of history from the evidence they found in the island's rocks - they also began to dream of a new scientific society for Cambridge. This society would bring together like-minded young men who wished to learn of the latest science from overseas, and would encourage original research in Cambridge. It would be, they wrote, a society "to keep alive the spirit of inquiry". Their vision was realised when they founded the Cambridge Philosophical Society later that same year. Its founders could not have imagined the impact the Cambridge Philosophical Society would have: it was responsible for the first publication of Charles Darwin's scientific writings, and hosted some of the most heated debates about evolutionary theory in the nineteenth century; it saw the first announcement of x-ray diffraction by a young Lawrence Bragg - a technique that would revolutionise the physical, chemical and life sciences; it published the first paper by C.T.R. Wilson on his cloud chamber - a device that opened up a previously-unimaginable world of sub-atomic particles. 200 years on from the Society's foundation, this book reflects on the achievements of Sedgwick, Henslow, their peers, and their successors. Susannah Gibson explains how Cambridge moved from what Sedgwick saw as a "death-like stagnation" (really little more than a provincial training school for Church of England clergy) to being a world-leader in the sciences. And she shows how science, once a peripheral activity undertaken for interest by a small number of wealthy gentlemen, has transformed into an enormously well-funded activity that can affect every aspect of our lives.
Early Science in Oxford: Chemistry, mathematics, physics, and surveying
Author: Robert Theodore GuntherPublisher:
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Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology
Author: Shannon VallorPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019085118X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 697
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies. They reveal the often-neglected importance of technology for virtually every subfield of philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and political theory. The Handbook also gives readers a new sense of what philosophy looks like when fully engaged with the disciplines and domains of knowledge that continue to transform the material and practical features and affordances of our world, including engineering, arts and design, computing, and the physical and social sciences. The chapters reveal enduring conceptual themes concerning technology's role in the shaping of human knowledge, identity, power, values, and freedom, while bringing a philosophical lens to the profound transformations of our existence brought by innovations ranging from biotechnology and nuclear engineering to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics. This new collection challenges the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and questions to be brought to bear upon humanity's complex and evolving relationship to technology.
Swift
Author: Irvin EhrenpreisPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674858305
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In this first volume of three the author treats in detail the events of Swift's life, the historical and social setting of those events, the evolution of Swift's character, and the composition and interpretation of his works. New and important material is included concerning Swift's family and career, his emotional life, his relations with Sir William Temple, the design and meaning of "A Tale of a Tub" and "The Battle of the Books."