Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences Essays in Honor of I. Bernard Cohen

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Preface Introduction Part I. The History and Philosophy of the Exact Sciences and Mathematics 1. Compounding ratios: Bradwardine, Oresme, and the first edition of Newton's Principia Edith Sylla 2. Atomism and motion in the fourteenth century John E. Murdoch 3. 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' in Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton Joseph T. Clark 4. Conceptual revolutions and the history of mathematics: two studies in the growth of knowledge Joseph W. Dauben 5. Cauchy and Bolzano: tradition and transformation in the history of mathematics Judith Grabiner 6. Idolatry, automorphic functions, and conceptual change: reflections on the historiography of nineteenth-century mathematics Uta C. Merzbach 7. The Andalusian revolt against Ptolemaic astronomy: Averroes and al-Bitruji A. I. Sabra 8. 'Success sanctifies the means': Heisenberg, Oppenheimer, and the transition to modern physics Gerald Holton 9. Einstein's image of himself as a philosopher of science Erwin Hiebert Part II. The Eighteenth-Century Tradition: 10. The Paracelsians in eighteenth-century France: a Renaissance tradition in the Age of the Enlightenment Allen G. Debus 11. Inventing demography: Montyon on hygiene and the state William Coleman 12. Joseph Priestley, eighteenth-century British Neoplatonism, and S. T. Coleridge Robert Schfield 13. Enlightenment views on the genetic perfectibility of man Victor Hilts 14. Anatomia animata: the Newtonian physiology of Albrecht von Haller Shirley A. Roe Part III. Science in America: 15. Creating form out of mass: the development of the medical record Stanley Joel Reiser 16. 'Frankenstein at Harvard': the public politics of recombinant DNA research Everett Mendelsohn 17. William Ferrel and American science in the centennial years Harold J. Burstyn 18. The American occupation and the Science Council of Japan Nakayama Shigeru 19. The worm in the core: science and general education Peter S. Buck and Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz 20. The pre-history of an academic discipline: the study of the history of science in the United States, 1891-1941 Arnold Thackray Part IV. Scientific Ideas in their Cultural Context: 21. Aristophanes and the antiscientific tradition Richard Olson 22. Carl Voit and the quantitative tradition in biology Frederic L. Holmes 23. Ideological factors in the dissemination of Darwinism in England: 1860-1900 Martin Fichman 24. Transformations in realist philosophy of science from Victorian Baconianism to the present day Yehuda Elkana 25. Science and the city before the nineteenth century George Basalla 26. Why the Scientific Revolution did not take place in China - or didn't it? Nathan Sivin Index.

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