The Social Origins of Modern Science

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Springer Science & Business Media, 7 Mar 2013 - 267 sayfa
Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) lived through the best of times and worst of times, through the renewal of scientific optimism and humane politics, and through the massive social collapse into idolatrous barbarism. With it all, and with his per sonal and family crises in Vienna and later in America, Zilsel was, I believe, a th heroic, indeed a model, scholar of the first half of the 20 century. He was widely admired as a teacher, at high schools, in workers education, in research tutoring and seminars. He was an original investigator on matters of the methodology of science, and of the history of the sciences. He was a social and political analyst, as a critical Marxist, of the turmoil of Vienna in the 20s. Above all, he achieved so much as a sociological historian who undertook re search on two central facts of the early modern world: recognition of the cre ative individual, and the ideal of genius; and the conditions and realities of the coming of science to European civilization.
 

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PREFACE Robert S Cohen
ix
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS
xv
The Social Roots of Science
3
The Methods of Humanism
22
Remarks on Zilsels
65
The Origins of William Gilberts Scientific Method
71
The Genesis of the Concept of Physical Law
96
Copernicus and Mechanics
123
Physics and the Problem
200
Phenomenology and Natural Science
209
History and Biological Evolution
216
The Sociological Roots of Science
227
Laws of Nature and Historical Laws
233
Bibliography of Edgar Zilsels Works
243
Index of names
253
Telif Hakkı

Problems of Empiricism
171

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