Elements of Early Modern Physics

J. L. Heilbron

ISBN 10: 0520045556 / ISBN 13: 9780520045552

Edité par University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982

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From the publisher: Elements of Early Modern Physics comprises the two long introductory chapters of J. L. Heilbron's monumental work Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics plus a concluding summary of the remaining chapters. Heilbron opens with a presentation of the general principles of physical theory and a description of the institutional frameworks in which physics were cultivated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He argues that the single most important contributor to physics in the seventeenth century was the Catholic Church. In the first half of the eighteenth century, Cartesian and Newtonian physicists disagreed over principles but thought in similar terms and cultivated the same sort of qualitative natural philosophy. Work towards an exact physics, which took on important dimensions after 1770, confounded the programs of both. Heilbron shows that by attending too closely to the Copernican revolution and the confrontation of great philosophical systems, historians have seriously misjudged the character of early modern science. John L. Heilbron (1934 - 2023) was an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy. He was Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus (Vice-Chancellor 1990-1994) at the University of California, Berkeley, senior research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and visiting professor at Yale University and the California Institute of Technology. He edited the academic journal Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences for twenty-five years. This copy is good in illustrated brown and white printed wrappers. Ex-library, and the with library strengthening of the binding by adding sturdy card backing to the wrappers and tape reinforcement of the spine. Typical library stamps and labels. No other marks or damage, and the text is quite clean.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Elements of Early Modern Physics
• Éditeur: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Date de parution: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520045556
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520045552
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: 1st Paperback.
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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