The Origins of Statics - The Sources of Physical Theory (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)

If ever a major study of the history of science should have acted like a sudden revolution it is this book, published in two volumes in 1905 and 1906 under the title, Les origines de la statique. Paris, the place of publication, and the Librairie scientifique A. Hermann that brought it be enough of a guarantee to prevent a very different out, could seem to outcome. Without prompting anyone, for some years yet, to follow up the revolutionary vistas which it opened up, Les origines de la statique certainly revolutionized Duhem's remaining ten or so years. He became the single-handed discoverer of a vast new land of Western intellectual history. Half a century later it could still be stated about the suddenly proliferating studies in medieval science that they were so many commentariesonDuhem's countlessfindings and observations. Of course, in 1906, Paris and the intellectual world in general were mesmerized by Bergson's Evolution creatrice, freshly off the press. It was meant to bring about a revolution. Bergson challenged head-on the leading dogma of the times, the idea of mechanistic evolution. He did so by noting, among other things, that to speak of vitalism was at least a roundabout recognition of scientific ignorance about a large number of facts concerning life-processes. He held high the idea of a "vital impetus passing through matter," and indeed through all matter or the universe, an impetus thatcould be detected only through intuitiveknowledge.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 123
Release date:	July 1991
First published:	July 1991
Translators:	G.F. Leneaux
Authors:	Pierre Duhem
Translators:	V. N. Vagliente • G.H. Wagener
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	596
Edition:	1991 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-0898-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	0-7923-0898-0
Barcode:	9780792308980

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