Description |
viii, 760 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / Michel Serres -- 1. Babylon - 1800 / James Ritter -- 2. Measure for Measure: Mathematics in Egypt and Mesopotamia / James Ritter -- 3. Gnomon: The Beginnings of Geometry in Greece / Michel Serres -- 4. Archimedes: The Scientist's Canon / Michel Authier -- 5. Stories of the Circle / Catherine Goldstein -- 6. The Arab Intermediary / Paul Benoit and Francoise Micheau -- 7. Theology in the Thirteenth Century: A Science Unlike the Others / Paul Benoit -- 8. Algebra, Commerce and Calculation / Paul Benoit -- 9. The Galileo Affair / Isabelle Stengers -- 10. Refraction and Cartesian 'Forgetfulness' / Michel Authier -- 11. Working with Numbers in the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Catherine Goldstein -- 12. Ambiguous Affinity: The Newtonian Dream of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century / Isabelle Stengers -- 13. From Linnaeus to Darwin: Naturalists and Travellers / Jean-Marc Drouin -- 14. Paris 1800 / Michel Serres |
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15. Lavoisier: A Scientific Revolution / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- 16. In Defence of Geology: The Origins of Lyell's Uniformitarianism / Geof Bowker -- 17. Mendel in the Garden / Jean-Marc Drouin -- 18. Pasteur and Pouchet: The Heterogenesis of the History of Science / Bruno Latour -- 19. Mendeleyev: The Story of a Discovery / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- 20. Manufacturing Truth: The Development of Industrial Research / Geof Bowker -- 21. Joliot: History and Physics mixed together / Bruno Latour -- 22. The Invention of the Computer / Pierre Levy -- Chronology / Michel Authier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 734-751) and index |
Subject |
Science -- History.
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Science -- Philosophy -- History.
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Author |
Serres, Michel.
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Authier, Michel.
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LC no. |
94007571 |
ISBN |
0631177396 alkaline paper |
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