Book ID: CBB000052623

Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (1985)

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Osler, Margaret J. (Editor)
Farber, Paul Lawrence (Editor)


Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1985


Publication Date: 1985
Physical Details: xiv + 305 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Essays in this volume are indexed separately in the present bibliography.


Reviewed By

Review Gabbey, A. (1988) Review of "Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 177-79). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter McMullin, Ernan (1985) The significance of Newton's Principia for empiricism. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 33). unapi

Chapter Grant, Edward (1985) Celestial perfection from the Middle Ages to the late 17th century. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 137). unapi

Chapter Osler, Margaret J. (1985) Baptizing Epicurean atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the immortality of the soul. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 163). unapi

Chapter Ruffner, James A. (1985) Agricola and community: Cognition and response to the concept of coal. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 297). unapi

Chapter Farber, Paul Lawrence (1985) Theories for the birds: An inquiry into the significance of the theory of evolution for the history of systematics. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 325). unapi

Chapter Dobbs, B. J. T. (1985) Conceptual problems in Newton's early chemistry: A preliminary study. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 3). unapi

Chapter Brackenridge, J. Bruce (1985) The defective diagram as an analytical device in Newton's Principia. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 61). unapi

Chapter Home, Roderick W. (1985) Force, electricity, and the powers of living matter in Newton's mature philosophy of nature. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 95). unapi

Chapter Harman, Peter M. (1985) Concepts of inertia: Newton to Kant. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 119). unapi

Chapter Millen, Ron (1985) The manifestation of occult qualities in the scientific revolution. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 185). unapi

Chapter Ruestow, Edward G. (1985) Piety and the defense of natural order: Swammerdam on generation. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 217). unapi

Chapter Straker, Stephen M. (1985) What is the history of theories of perception the history of?. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 245). unapi

Chapter Thoren, Victor E. (1985) Tycho Brahe as the dean of a Renaissance research institute. In: Religion, science, and worldview: Essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (p. 275). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Feingold, Mordechai
Boschiero, Luciano
Buchwald, Jed Z.
Cohen, I. Bernard
Copenhaver, Brian P.
Doggett, Rachel
Journals
Almagest
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review
Publishers
Folger Shakespeare Library
MIT Press
Presses Universitaires de France
Reidel
Waanders
University of Utah
Concepts
Science
Natural philosophy
Mathematics
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Time measurement
History of science, as a discipline
People
Westfall, Richard S.
Newton, Isaac
Descartes, René
Huygens, Christiaan
Boyle, Robert
Cohen, H. Floris
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
Places
British Isles
France
Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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