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Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton

Wilbur Applebaum - History - 2003 - 1628 pages
With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference ...
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The Concept of Matter in Greek and Medieval Philosophy

Joseph Bobik - Philosophy - 1965 - 340 pages
In the essays, comments, and discussion gathered together in this book, philosophers, physicists, and historians of science have collaborated in presenting a complex and ...
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Construction and Constraint: The Shaping of Scientific Rationality

Ernan McMullin - Science - 1988 - 272 pages
Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Notre Dame in April 1986
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The Social Dimensions of Science

Ernan McMullin - Science - 1992 - 328 pages
In recent decades, it has been argued that the social dimensions of science are more nearly constitutive of science, both as activity and as product. The ten essays in this ...
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Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory: Reflections on Bell's Theorem

James T. Cushing, Ernan McMullin - Philosophy - 1989 - 336 pages
From the beginning, the implications of quantum theory for our most general understanding of the world have been a matter of intense debate. Einstein argues that the theory had ...
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Newton on Matter and Activity

Ernan McMullin - Science - 2016 - 160 pages
"Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent ...
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