The History of Science
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2020
Book
2456 pages
978-0-415-74441-6 (ISBN)
Description
Science is one of the main features of the contemporary world, and shapes our lives to an extent that has no precedents in history. Yet science as we know it today is the outcome of contingent social processes, and its global success is far from self-explanatory. How did it happen? How did science emerge in history and became the most authoritative source of knowledge available in late modern societies? This set of volumes addresses these crucial questions through a selection of exemplary publications spanning antiquity to the present day. The reader will find an effective survey of the best scholarship in this rapidly growing field, and a map of the main revolutions as well as the long-term continuities that have characterized our understanding the world and our attempts to control it. The collection brings together areas of inquiry that have become increasingly distant and specialized, such as the history of antique science or Cold War studies, within broader narratives of the making of the modern world. They also reassess the traditional assumption of the exclusively Greek and Western origins of modern science, situating relevant knowledge, practices, and artefacts within the global networks that sustained them: in ancient as well as in modern times. The gathered materials address key historiographical issues, such as the relationship between science, magic, and religion; the role of science in nation-building processes; and the relationship between science and technology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 s/w Tabellen, 209 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
7 Tables, black and white; 209 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
4830 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-74441-6 (9780415744416)
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Professor Massimo Mazzotti is Director, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Content
Volume I Ancient Science 1 Hellenophilia versus the history of science David Pingree 2 Affinities and elisions: Helen and Hellenocentrism Heinrich von Staden 3 The historiography of Mesopotamian science Francesca Rochberg 4 Egyptian mathematical texts and their contexts Annette Imhausen 5 The adaptation of Babylonian methods in Greek numerical astronomy Alexander Jones 6 Science in antiquity: the Greek and Chinese cases and their relevance to the problems of culture and cognition Geoffrey Lloyd 7 Making up progress - in ancient Greek science writing Markus Asper 8 Imagination and layered ontology in Greek mathematics Reviel Netz 9 Hero of Alexandria's mechanical geometry Karin Tybjerg 10 A Roman engineer's tales Serafina Cuomo 11 Cicero's astronomy E. Gee 12 Machines, power and the ancient economy Andrew Wilson 13 Women, writing and medicine in the classical world Rebecca Flemming 14 Observers, objects, and the embedded eye; or, seeing and knowing in Ptolemy and Galen Daryn Lehoux 15 The fundamental issues of the Chinese sciences Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin 16 Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations Maud W. Gleason
Volume II Medieval Science 17 When did modern science begin? Edward Grant 18 Science and the early Christian church David C. Lindberg 19 Situating Arabic science: locality versus essence A. I. Sabra 20 The logic of non-Western science: mathematical discoveries in medieval India David Pingree 21 Occult science and society in Byzantium: considerations for future research Maria Mavroudi 22 Natural theology and the Qur'an Robert G. Morrison 23 Freeing astronomy from philosophy: an aspect of Islamic influence on science F. Jamil Ragep 24 The transmission of Arabic astronomy via Antioch and Pisa in the second quarter of the twelfth century Charles Burnett 25 Cosmology and cosmogony in Doresh Reshumoth, a thirteenth-century commentary on the Torah Y. Tzvi Langermann 26 A 'college of astrology and medicine'? Charles V, Gervais Chretien, and the scientific manuscripts of Maitre Gervais's College Jean-Patrice Boudet 27 The Jesus hermaphrodite: science and sex difference in premodern Europe Leah DeVun 28 Gendering the history of women's healthcare Monica H. Green 29 The impact of money on the development of fourteenth-century scientific thought Joel Kaye 30 Technology and alchemical debate in the late Middle Ages William Newman 31 Defining the boundaries of the natural in the fifteenth-century Brittany: the inquest into the miracles of Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419) Laura Smoller
Volume III Early Modern Science 32 The scientific revolution: a spoke in the wheel? Roy Porter 33 Did science have a renaissance? Brian P. Copenhaver 34 A sixteenth-century Arabic critique of Ptolemaic astronomy: the work of Shams al-Din al-Khafri George Saliba 35 A scholarly intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe Robert Morrison 36 Animism and empiricism: Copernican physics and the origins of William Gilbert's experimental method John Henry 37 Knowledge in motion: following itineraries of matter in the early modern world Pamela H. Smith 38 Galileo the emblem maker Mario Biagioli 39 Possessing the past: the material world of the Italian Renaissance Paula Findlen 40 Dissecting the female body: from women's secrets to the secrets of nature Katherine Park 41 Miracles, experiments, and the ordinary course of nature Peter Dear 42 The house of experiment in seventeenth-century England Steven Shapin 43 Alchemy restored Lawrence M. Principe 44 Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state Harold J. Cook 45 Patterns of transformation in seventeenth-century mechanics Domenico Bertoloni Meli 46 Descartes's geometry as spiritual exercise Matthew L. Jones 47 On Yeti and being just: carving the borders of humanity in early modern China Carla Nappi
Volume IV Science in the Age of Enlightenment 48 Science in the Enlightenment, revisited Jan Golinski 49 Situating science in global history: local exchanges and networks of circulation Lissa Roberts 50 Enlightened automata Simon Schaffer 51 The role of musical analogies in Newton's optical and cosmological work Niccolo Guicciardini 52 Newton for ladies: gentility, gender and radical culture Massimo Mazzotti 53 Machines in the garden Jessica Riskin 54 French engineers become professionals; or, how meritocracy made knowledge objective Ken Alder 55 The fiscal logic of enlightened German science Andre Wakefield 56 Enlightenment calculations Lorraine Daston 57 Global knowledge on the move: itineraries, Amerindian narratives, and deep histories of science Neil Safier 58 Colonial encounters and the forging of new knowledge and national identities: Great Britain and India, 1760-1850 Kapil Raj 59 Visible empire: scientific expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic enlightenment Daniela Bleichmar 60 Medical experimentation and race in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world Londa Schiebinger 61 Salon, academy, and boudoir: generation and desire in Maupertuis's science of life Mary Terrall 62 Nature as a marketplace: the political economy of Linnaean botany Staffan Mueller-Wille 63 Experimental spaces and the knowledge economy Larry Stewart 64 The ghost of Rostow: science, culture and the British industrial revolution William J. Ashworth
Volume V The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences 65 Quantification and the accounting ideal in science Theodore M. Porter 66 The organic roots of Mendeleev's periodic law Michael D. Gordin 67 Einstein's clocks: the place of time Peter Galison 68 "An expedition to heal the wounds of war": the 1919 eclipse and Eddington as Quaker adventurer Matthew Stanley 69 Worldviews and physicists' experience of disciplinary change: on the uses of 'classical' physics Richard Staley 70 Objectivity and the scientist: Heisenberg rethinks Cathryn Carson 71 Freedom, collectivism, and quasiparticles: social metaphors in quantum physics Alexei Kojevnikov 72 When computers were women Jennifer S. Light 73 Stick-figure realism: conventions, reification, and the persistence of Feynman diagrams, 1948-1964 David Kaiser 74 What difference did computers make? Jon Agar 75 Negotiating arithmetic, constructing proof: the sociology of mathematics and information technology Donald MacKenzie 76 Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the making of the IAEA Gabrielle Hecht
Volume VI The Modern Life and Earth Sciences 77 Artisan botany Anne Secord 78 The creed of science and its critics Bernard Lightman 79 Science "gone native" in colonial India Gyan Prakash 80 Race and language in the Darwinian tradition (and what Darwin's language-species parallels have to do with it) Gregory Radick 81 After the double helix: Rosalin Franklin's research on Tobacco mosaic virus Angela N. H. Creager and Gregory J. Morgan 82 Life, DNA and the model Robert Bud 83 Making males aggressive and females coy: gender across the animal-human boundary Erika Lorraine Milam 84 Towards a data base of dreams: assembling an archive of elusive materials, c. 1947-61 Rebecca Lemov 85 The ontology of the enemy: Norbert Wiener and the cybernetic vision' Peter Galison 86 Communicating the north: scientific practice and Canadian postwar identity Edward Jones-Imhotep 87 "Collective monitoring, collective defense": science, earthquakes, and politics in communist China Fa-ti Fan 88 Challenging knowledge: how climate science became a victim of the Cold War Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway 89 Imperial climatographies from Tyrol to Turkestan Deborah R. Coen 90 Meteorology as infrastructural globalism Paul N. Edwards
Volume II Medieval Science 17 When did modern science begin? Edward Grant 18 Science and the early Christian church David C. Lindberg 19 Situating Arabic science: locality versus essence A. I. Sabra 20 The logic of non-Western science: mathematical discoveries in medieval India David Pingree 21 Occult science and society in Byzantium: considerations for future research Maria Mavroudi 22 Natural theology and the Qur'an Robert G. Morrison 23 Freeing astronomy from philosophy: an aspect of Islamic influence on science F. Jamil Ragep 24 The transmission of Arabic astronomy via Antioch and Pisa in the second quarter of the twelfth century Charles Burnett 25 Cosmology and cosmogony in Doresh Reshumoth, a thirteenth-century commentary on the Torah Y. Tzvi Langermann 26 A 'college of astrology and medicine'? Charles V, Gervais Chretien, and the scientific manuscripts of Maitre Gervais's College Jean-Patrice Boudet 27 The Jesus hermaphrodite: science and sex difference in premodern Europe Leah DeVun 28 Gendering the history of women's healthcare Monica H. Green 29 The impact of money on the development of fourteenth-century scientific thought Joel Kaye 30 Technology and alchemical debate in the late Middle Ages William Newman 31 Defining the boundaries of the natural in the fifteenth-century Brittany: the inquest into the miracles of Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419) Laura Smoller
Volume III Early Modern Science 32 The scientific revolution: a spoke in the wheel? Roy Porter 33 Did science have a renaissance? Brian P. Copenhaver 34 A sixteenth-century Arabic critique of Ptolemaic astronomy: the work of Shams al-Din al-Khafri George Saliba 35 A scholarly intermediary between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe Robert Morrison 36 Animism and empiricism: Copernican physics and the origins of William Gilbert's experimental method John Henry 37 Knowledge in motion: following itineraries of matter in the early modern world Pamela H. Smith 38 Galileo the emblem maker Mario Biagioli 39 Possessing the past: the material world of the Italian Renaissance Paula Findlen 40 Dissecting the female body: from women's secrets to the secrets of nature Katherine Park 41 Miracles, experiments, and the ordinary course of nature Peter Dear 42 The house of experiment in seventeenth-century England Steven Shapin 43 Alchemy restored Lawrence M. Principe 44 Body and passions: materialism and the early modern state Harold J. Cook 45 Patterns of transformation in seventeenth-century mechanics Domenico Bertoloni Meli 46 Descartes's geometry as spiritual exercise Matthew L. Jones 47 On Yeti and being just: carving the borders of humanity in early modern China Carla Nappi
Volume IV Science in the Age of Enlightenment 48 Science in the Enlightenment, revisited Jan Golinski 49 Situating science in global history: local exchanges and networks of circulation Lissa Roberts 50 Enlightened automata Simon Schaffer 51 The role of musical analogies in Newton's optical and cosmological work Niccolo Guicciardini 52 Newton for ladies: gentility, gender and radical culture Massimo Mazzotti 53 Machines in the garden Jessica Riskin 54 French engineers become professionals; or, how meritocracy made knowledge objective Ken Alder 55 The fiscal logic of enlightened German science Andre Wakefield 56 Enlightenment calculations Lorraine Daston 57 Global knowledge on the move: itineraries, Amerindian narratives, and deep histories of science Neil Safier 58 Colonial encounters and the forging of new knowledge and national identities: Great Britain and India, 1760-1850 Kapil Raj 59 Visible empire: scientific expeditions and visual culture in the Hispanic enlightenment Daniela Bleichmar 60 Medical experimentation and race in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world Londa Schiebinger 61 Salon, academy, and boudoir: generation and desire in Maupertuis's science of life Mary Terrall 62 Nature as a marketplace: the political economy of Linnaean botany Staffan Mueller-Wille 63 Experimental spaces and the knowledge economy Larry Stewart 64 The ghost of Rostow: science, culture and the British industrial revolution William J. Ashworth
Volume V The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences 65 Quantification and the accounting ideal in science Theodore M. Porter 66 The organic roots of Mendeleev's periodic law Michael D. Gordin 67 Einstein's clocks: the place of time Peter Galison 68 "An expedition to heal the wounds of war": the 1919 eclipse and Eddington as Quaker adventurer Matthew Stanley 69 Worldviews and physicists' experience of disciplinary change: on the uses of 'classical' physics Richard Staley 70 Objectivity and the scientist: Heisenberg rethinks Cathryn Carson 71 Freedom, collectivism, and quasiparticles: social metaphors in quantum physics Alexei Kojevnikov 72 When computers were women Jennifer S. Light 73 Stick-figure realism: conventions, reification, and the persistence of Feynman diagrams, 1948-1964 David Kaiser 74 What difference did computers make? Jon Agar 75 Negotiating arithmetic, constructing proof: the sociology of mathematics and information technology Donald MacKenzie 76 Negotiating global nuclearities: apartheid, decolonization, and the Cold War in the making of the IAEA Gabrielle Hecht
Volume VI The Modern Life and Earth Sciences 77 Artisan botany Anne Secord 78 The creed of science and its critics Bernard Lightman 79 Science "gone native" in colonial India Gyan Prakash 80 Race and language in the Darwinian tradition (and what Darwin's language-species parallels have to do with it) Gregory Radick 81 After the double helix: Rosalin Franklin's research on Tobacco mosaic virus Angela N. H. Creager and Gregory J. Morgan 82 Life, DNA and the model Robert Bud 83 Making males aggressive and females coy: gender across the animal-human boundary Erika Lorraine Milam 84 Towards a data base of dreams: assembling an archive of elusive materials, c. 1947-61 Rebecca Lemov 85 The ontology of the enemy: Norbert Wiener and the cybernetic vision' Peter Galison 86 Communicating the north: scientific practice and Canadian postwar identity Edward Jones-Imhotep 87 "Collective monitoring, collective defense": science, earthquakes, and politics in communist China Fa-ti Fan 88 Challenging knowledge: how climate science became a victim of the Cold War Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway 89 Imperial climatographies from Tyrol to Turkestan Deborah R. Coen 90 Meteorology as infrastructural globalism Paul N. Edwards