Name: History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set: History of the Inductive Sciences: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy) (en Inglés)
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Author: William Whewell
ISBN: 9781108019255

portada History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set: History of the Inductive Sciences: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Cambridge University Press

Autor

William Whewell

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2010

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Inglés

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552

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1108019250

ISBN13

9781108019255

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Educación

History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set: History of the Inductive Sciences: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy) (en Inglés)

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A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the mechanics, astronomy, and chemistry of 'modern times'. Volume 2 focuses on the rise and development of modern mechanics in the seventeenth century. Whewell shows how Galileo's laws of motion exemplify a paradigmatic shift from 'formal' to 'physical' sciences - a new approach concerned with explaining causes rather than merely observing phenomena. It also discusses the implications for physical astronomy of Newton's discoveries.