The Edge of Objectivity : : An Essay in the History of Scientific Ideas / / Charles Coulston Gillispie.
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction to the New Paperback Edition
- Chapter I. Full Circle
- Chapter II. Art, Life, and Experiment
- Chapter III. The New Philosophy
- Chapter IV. Newton with His Prism and Silent Face
- Chapter V. Science and The Enlightenment
- Chapter VI. The Rationalization of Matter
- Chapter VII. The History of Nature
- Chapter VIII. Biology Comes of Age
- Chapter IX. Early Energetics
- Chapter X. Field Physics
- Chapter X. Epilogue
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
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