An Introduction to the History of Science (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Libby, Walter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330295099 ISBN 13 : 9781330295090

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How science reshaped learning and daily life across centuries

The book traces a long arc from early schools to the Enlightenment, showing how discoveries in math, physics, biology, and beyond changed what students study and how they learn. It reveals the ideas and people that moved education from rigid tradition toward evidence, inquiry, and the habit of questioning. In this accessible history, you’ll see how scientific progress influenced schools, religion, and civic life. The narrative highlights concrete shifts—from the rise of the Miltonic academy and the modern high school to the place of science in daily work and culture—and explains why those changes mattered for generations of learners.

• Concrete examples of how science curricula evolved in American and European classrooms
• Character-driven portraits of educators and reformers who shaped modern learning
• Connections between scientific ideas and broader social, religious, and cultural shifts
• Discussion of how methods like laboratory learning began to replace dogmatic instruction

Ideal for readers curious about the roots of modern education, science literacy, and how ideas travel between classrooms, labs, and daily life. This edition offers a clear lens on the forces that shaped schooling from the eighteenth century onward.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The history of science has something to offer to the humblest intelligence. It is a means of imparting a knowledge of scientific facts and principles to unschooled minds. At the same time it affords a simple method of school instruction. Those who understand a business or an institution best, as a contemporary writer on finance remarks, are those who have made it or grown up with it, and the next best thing is to know how it has grown up, and then watch or take part in its actual working. Generally speaking, we know best what we know in its origins. The history of science is an aid in scientific research. It places the student in the current of scientific thought, and gives him a clue to the purpose and necessity of the theories he is required to master. It presents science as the constant pursuit of truth rather than the formulation of truth long since revealed ;it shows science as progressive rather than fixed, dynamic rather than static, a growth to which each may contribute. It does not paralyze the selfactivity of youth by the record of an infallible past. It is only by teaching the sciences in their historical development that the schools can be true to the two principles of modern education, that the sciences should occupy the foremost place in the curriculum and that the individual mind in its evolution should rehearse the history of civilization.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330295099
• ISBN 13: 9781330295090
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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