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The Invention of physical science : intersections of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century : essays in honor of Erwin N. Hiebert
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- Creator
- edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards and Roger H. Stuewer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1992]
- ©1992
- Physical Details
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- xxxiv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780792317531, 079231753X
- OCLC
- ocm25629761
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Devils' hells and astronomers' heavens / Sara Schechner Genuth -- The doctrine of chances without chance / Lorraine J. Daston -- God, truth, and mathematics in nineteenth-century England / Joan L. Richards -- Theologians, science, and theories of truth in nineteenth-century Germany / Frederick Gregory -- Equivalence, pragmatic platonism, and discovery of the calculus / Skuli Sigurdsson -- The training of German research physicists Heinrich Hertz / Jed Buchwald -- From psychophysics to phenomenalism / Richard L. Kremer -- A usable past : creating disciplinary space for physical chemistry / Diana Kormos Barkan -- Physics and chemistry : commensurate or incommensurate sciences? / Mary Jo Nye -- FORTRAN, physics, and human nature / Peter Galison