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The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader (Hardcover, HPOD)
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The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader (Hardcover, HPOD)
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The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together
seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century
and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With
readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes,
Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it
analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts
and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify
the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of
theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for
further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing
students to develop the skills needed to: read, interpret, and
critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history
and philosophy of science understand and evaluate scientific
material found in a wide variety of professional and popular
settings appreciate the social and cultural context in which
scientific ideas emerge identify the roles that mathematics plays
in scientific inquiry Featuring primary sources in all the core
scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life
sciences - The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader is ideal
for students looking to better understand the origins of natural
science and the questions asked throughout its history. By taking a
thematic approach to introduce influential assumptions, methods and
answers, this reader illustrates the implications of an impressive
range of values and ideas across the history and philosophy of
Western science.
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