History and Philosophy of Science reprints a distinguished selection of important texts published in this field over the last century. This set presents a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history and philosophy of science. It covers all major fields of scientific thought throughout history from Physics, Biology, and cosmology to ESP and alchemy. It includes texts on all the great historical scientific figures including Darwin, Copernicus, Archimedes, Kepler and Hooker. Finally it covers all main themes in science taking in creation, evolution, the development of scientific methodology and the future of science. SUMMARY, of some essays:
- Accent on Form: An Anticipation of the Science of Tomorrow / Lancelot Law Whyte
- Alchemy: A Bibliography of English-Language Writings / A. Pritchard
- Archimedes: or the Future of Physics / L.L. Whyte
- The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus, Kepler, Boreli / A,. Koyre
- Biography of Physics George / Gamow
- Boundaries of the Universe / John S. Glasby
- Common Scientist in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society 1683-1708 / T. Hoppen
- Cooke and Wheatstone and the Invention of the Electric Telegraph / Geoffrey Hubbard
- Daedalus, or Science and the Future / J.B.S. Haldane
- Darwin and the Humanities / Mark J. Baldwin
- Evolution The Modern Synthesis / Sir Julian Huxley
- Evolution and Human Behaviour / A. Alland
- Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief D. Lack An Examination of Logical Positivism / Julius Weinberg
- Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science / P. Rossi
- Frontiers of Science and Philosophy / Robert G. Colodny
- A History of the Sciences: Main Currents of Scientific Thought / S.F. Mason
- The Place of Hooker in the History of Thought / Peter Munz
- Prometheus, or Biology and the Advancement of Man / H.S. Jennings - Rhetoric of Science Study of Scientific Ideas and Imagery in Eighteenth Century English Poetry / William Powell Jones
- Science in a Renaissance Society / W.P.D. Wightman
- Science Spirit Superstition / Constantin Brunner
- Science, Technology and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century / A.E. Musson
- The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Times / M.E. Beggs-Humphreys & D.W. Humphreys
- The Scientific Revolution / P.M. Harman
- Soviet Marxism and Natural Science: 1917-1932 /David Joravsky
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