Book ID: CBB000003177

Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (1983)

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Aris, Rutherford (Editor)
David, H. Ted (Editor)
Stuewer, Roger H. (Editor)


University of Minnesota Press


Publication Date: 1983
Physical Details: ix + 342 pp.; notes; index

Description Papers in this volume are indexed separatedly in the current bibliography.


Includes Chapters

Chapter Settle, Thomas B. (1983) Galileo and early experimentation. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Westfall, Richard S. (1983) Newton's development of the Principia. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 21). unapi

Chapter Cardwell, Donald S. L. (1983) The origins and consequences of certain of J. P. Joule's scientific ideas. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 44). unapi

Chapter Everitt, C. W. F. (1983) Maxwell's scientific creativity. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 71). unapi

Chapter Klein, Martin J. (1983) The scientific style of Josiah Willard Gibbs. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 142). unapi

Chapter Howard, John N. (1983) Principal scientific contributions of John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 163). unapi

Chapter Hughes, Thomas P. (1983) Elmer Sperry and Adrian Leverkühn: A comparison of creative styles. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 188). unapi

Chapter Hiebert, Erwin N. (1983) Walther Nernst and the application of physics to chemistry. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 203). unapi

Chapter Goldberg, Stanley (1983) Albert Einstein and the creative act: The case of Special Relativity. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 232). unapi

Chapter Wessels, Linda (1983) Erwin Schrödinger and the descriptive tradition. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 254). unapi

Chapter Scott, William T. (1983) Michael Polanyi's creativity in chemistry. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 279). unapi

Chapter Goldstine, Herman H. (1983) The role of John von Neumann in the computer field. In: Springs of scientific creativity: Essays on founders of modern science (p. 308). unapi

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Holton, Gerald James
Mahoney, Michael J.
Agassi, Joseph
Berry, Colin
Burton, Mark
Cole, Stephen
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Science
Personality of the scientist
Controversies and disputes
Development of science; change in science
Revolutions in science
Psychoanalysis
People
Freud, Sigmund
Ptashne, Mark
Wilson, Robert Rathburn
McCarthy, John
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17th century
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