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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Symposium on the History of Science (1961 : Oxford, England) Scientific change. New York, Basic Books [1963] (OCoLC)609108576 |
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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
A C Crombie; University of Oxford.; International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. Division of History of Science. |
| OCLC Number: | 1079479 |
| Notes: | Held at the University of Oxford, July 9-15, 1961, under the auspices of the Division of History of Science of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. |
| Description: | xii, 896 p. diagrs. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Motives and incentives for science in antiquity / Ludwig Edelstein -- Basic ideas and methods of Babylonian and Greek astronomy / B.L. van der Waerden -- Conceptual developments and modes of explanation in later Greek scientific thought / S. Sambursky -- Commentaries on pt. 1 / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix ... [et al.] -- Discussion of pt. 1 / J. Millás-Vallicrosa ... [et al.] -- Poverties and triumphs of the Chinese scientific tradition / Joseph Needham -- Commentaries on pt. 2 / Willy Hartner, Pierre Huard, Wong Chu-Ming (Huang Kuang-Ming) -- Discussion of pt. 2 / B.L. van der Waerden, S.E. Toulmin, J. Needham -- What was original in Arabic science? / S. Pines -- Al-Bīrūnī and the theory of the solar apogee : an example of originality in Arabic science / Willy Hartner and Matthias Schramm -- Motives and opportunities for science in the medieval universities / Guy Beaujouan -- The medieval language of proportions : elements of the interaction with Greek foundations and the development of new mathematical techniques / John E. Murdoch -- What accelerated technological progress in the Western Middle Ages? / Lynn White Jr. -- Commentaries on pt. 3 / A.P. Yushkevich ... [et al.] -- Discussion of pt. 3 / O. Temkin ... [et al.] -- The function of dogma in scientific research / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Commentaries on pt. 4 / A. Rupert Hall, Michael Polanyi -- Discussion of pt. 4 / B. Glass ... [et al.] -- Descartes's anticipation of a 'logic of scientific discovery' / Gerd Buchdahl -- Precision of measurement and physical, and chemical research in the eighteenth century / Maurice Daumas -- Intellectual factors in the background of analysis probabilities / C.C. Gillispie -- Physical concepts that cannot be assimilated to instrumentation / D.H. Wilkinson -- Commentaries on pt. 5 / N.R. Hanson ... [et al.] -- Discussion of pt. 5 / J.W. Herivel ... [et al.] -- The role of analogies and models in biological discovery / Georges Canguilhem -- The establishment of modern genetical theory as an example of the interaction of different models, techniques and inferences / Bentley Glass -- Complexities, advances and misconceptions in the development of the science of vision : what is being discovered? / Vasco Ronchi -- Scientific approaches to psychology : clinical and objective psychology, a problem of scientific method / B.A. Farrell -- Scientific approaches to psychology : changing views of behaviour mechanisms / R.A. Oldfield -- Commentaries on papers 16-20 / K.E. Rothschuh ... [et al.] -- Discussion of papers 16-20 / J. Needham ... [et al.] -- The scientific approach to disease : specific entity and individual sickness / Owsei Temkin -- Commentaries on paper 21 / Sir George Pickering, Richard H. Shryock -- Discussion of paper 21 / E. Heischkel-Artelt ... [et al.] -- The development of scientific research in modern universities : a comparative study of motives and opportunities / D.S.L. Cardwell -- Economic incentives for and consequences of technical invention / C.F. Carter -- The organization of science in Russia in relation to the development of scientific thought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / A.T. Grigoryan and B.G. Kuznetsov -- The interaction between scientific research and technical invention in the history of Russia / N.A. Figurovsky -- Commentaries on pt. 7 / Sir Eric Ashby ... [et al.] -- Discussion of pt. 7 / W.A. Smeaton ... [et al.] -- A note on history of science as an academic discipline / A.C. Crombie and M.A. Hoskin -- Discussion of pt. 8 / opened by Asa Briggs, I. Bernard Cohen and W.P.D. Wightman ; [with] G. Buchdahl ... [et al.] -- Some historical assumptions of the history of science / Henry Guerlac -- On forgotten sources in the history of science / Giorgio de Santillana -- The historiography of science in Russia / V.P. Zubov -- Commentaries on pt. 9 / Alexandre Koyré, J.A. Passmore, Peter Laslett -- Discussion of pt. 9 / J. Needham ... [et al.] -- Note on scientific manuscripts / R.N. Quirk. |
| Responsibility: | Edited by A.C. Crombie. |
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