The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibnizs scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz. The essays deal with a vast array of topics on the exact sciences: Leibnizs logic, mere...Daugiau...
The book offers a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibnizs scientific thought, written by historians of science and world-leading experts on Leibniz. The essays deal with a vast array of topics on the exact sciences: Leibnizs logic, mere...Daugiau...
This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turings conceptual contributions and assesses the impact of the work of Alan Turing on the history and philosophy of science. Written by experts from...Daugiau...
This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turings conceptual contributions and assesses the impact of the work of Alan Turing on the history and philosophy of science. Written by experts from a...Daugiau...
In accordance with the former, mathematics is assigned an active and even shaping role in the sciences, but at the same time, employing mathematics as a tool is taken to be independent from the possible mathematical structure of the objects under con...Daugiau...
This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus...Daugiau...
Galileo Galilei (15641642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works. One of the con- quences of this is the proliferation of identities bestowed on this gure of the Italian Renaissance:...Daugiau...
Habent sua Jata colloquia. The present volume has its ongms in a spring 1984 international workshop held, under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, by The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas of Te...Daugiau...
For a North American seeking to know the Mexican mind, and especially the sciences today and in their recent development, a great light of genius is to be found in Mexico City in the late 17th century. Tbe genius is that of one who surely may be coun...Daugiau...
The twentieth century is the period during which the history of Greek mathematics reached its greatest acme. Indeed, it is by no means exaggerated to say that Greek mathematics represents the unique field from the wider domain of the general history...Daugiau...
to the English translation of Lagranges Mecanique Analytique Lagranges Mecanique Analytique appeared early in 1788 almost exactly one cen tury after the publication of Newtons Principia Mathematica. It marked the culmination of a line of research...Daugiau...
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the...Daugiau...
The main theme of this anthology is the unique interaction between mathematics, physics and philosophy during the beginning of the 20th century. In this book, ten renowned philosopher-historians probe insightfully into key conceptual questions of pre...Daugiau...
two main (interacting) ways. They constitute that with which exploration into problems or questions is carried out. But they also constitute that which is exchanged between scholars or, in other terms, that which is shaped by one (or by some) for use...Daugiau...
This work systematically investigates and reconstructs the practical knowledge Galileo shared during his lifetime.Galileo shared many aspects of practical knowledge. These included the methods and experience of foremen and engineers active wi...Daugiau...
This book deals with the development of thinking under different cultural conditions, focusing on the evolution of mathematical thinking in the history of science and education. Starting from Piagets genetic epistemology, it provides a conceptual...Daugiau...
The articles in this volume have been first presented during an international Conference organised by the Greek Society for the History of Science and Technology in June 1990 at Corfu. The Society was founded in 1989 and planned to hold a series of m...Daugiau...
An understanding of developments in Arabic mathematics between the IXth and XVth century is vital to a full appreciation of the history of classical mathematics. This book draws together more than ten studies to highlight one of the major developm...Daugiau...
In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the humanities and the arts contribute essays in honor of Robert S. Cohen, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The range of the...Daugiau...
Covering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartess Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early...Daugiau...
