Title | The Changing Image of the Sciences [electronic resource] / edited by Ida H. Stamhuis, Teun Koetsier, Cornelis De Pater, Albert Van Helden |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0587-6 |
Descript | X, 226 p. online resource |
In Our Own Image: Creating the Computer -- From โGiant Brainโ to Information Appliance -- The Transparency of Software -- The World of the Computer -- Changing Images of Chemistry -- Creating Life -- The Wonderful World of Chemistry -- The Ways Back to Nature -- The Changing Image of Biology in the Twentieth Century -- The Nineteenth Century Background -- Biology and the Physical Sciences: Experimentalism and Reductionism -- The Technological and Institutional Imperative -- Integrative Processes -- The Economic, Social and Technological Context in the Development of an Experimentally and Mechanistically Based Biology in the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- The Image of Physics -- by the Editors -- Einsteinโs and Bohrโs Views on Philosophy -- On Relativity Theory -- On Complementarity -- Some Final Comments -- Re-imag(in)ing Women in Science: Projecting Identity and Negotiating Gender in Science -- Margaret Cavendish โ Defiant Natural Philosopher with an Independent Voice -- Maria Sibylla Merian โ Innovative Entomologist Working within Conventions -- Mary Somerville โ Queen of Celestial (and Domestic) Science -- Ada Lovelace โ Mathematician Calculating Body Image -- Agnes Pockels โ Surface Chemist and โHausfrauโ -- Jantina Tammes โ Geneticist Defining Her Own โWeak Constitutionโ -- Marie Curie โ Independent and Eminent Collaborator -- Conclusions -- Science in the Mirror of โBig Historyโ -- Science in the Mirror of โBig Historyโ -- Big History -- Science as Creation Myth -- Systems of Knowledge -- Pre-Human Knowledge Systems -- Human Knowledge Systems of the Palaeolithic -- Science as a System of Knowledge -- Science and the Future? -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Modern Creation Story -- The Changing Images of Unity and Disunity in the Philosophy of Science -- The Misrecognition of Unity in Recent History and Philosophy of Science -- Unity and Disunity as Expressions of Constructivism and Realism -- Historical Conditions for the Unity and Disunity of Science -- Conclusion: Beyond Misrecognizing to Rediscovering the Unity of Science -- Authors and Editors