Fehér, Márta : Changing Tools - Case studies in the history of scientific methodology

Dedikált példány
The 17th century crossroads of the mathematization of nature. Preliminaries. The role ascribed to mathematics. Anti-Hermeticist trends. Hermeticist ways of mathematization -- Galileo and the demonstrative ideal of science -- The rise and fall of crucial experiments. The birth of crucial experiment: the Baconian idea. The process of knowledge turning conjectural: the pluralization of causal explanations. The vanishing of apodicticity. The reduction of the types of causes and motions. The great shift in mentality: new rules of faith. Crucial experiments in Newton's methodology: the first downfall -- The method of analysis-synthesis and the structure of causal explanation in Newton -- The triumphal march of a paradigm (A case study of the popularization of Newtonian science). Algarotti, ambassador of the Newtonian Empire -- The role of metaphor and analogy in the birth of the principle of least action of Maupertuis (1698-1759) On the role accorded to the public by philosophers of science
Néhány lap (73. - 89.) fénymásolatban pótolva, beragasztva.