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R. Hooykaas
In this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
The Scientific Revolution
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https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470755730.ch2
https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470755730.ch2
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
It has been claimed that Natural Theology has been an incentive to the scientific investigation of nature and that, conversely, this investigation yields arguments in favour of it. Certainly some of the greatest scientists (Kepler, Boyle, Newton, Hut
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_2
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_2
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
One of the most quoted texts in the literature of ancient astronomy and chemistry is taken from the apocryphal Book of Wisdom. It runs: God ‘has ordered all things according to measure, number and weight’,1 or, as the 15th century alchemist Thoma
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_3
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
Copernicus’ great work De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium was published in 1543. Today it is widely accepted that this book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs, marks the beginning of the ‘scientific revolution’: the Aristotelian Goliath
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_7
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_7
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
For the title of this, my last chapter, I turn to Pascal (1623 – 1662): ‘Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature: but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_12
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_12
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
After Paracelsus qualitative explanations in chemistry lost ground because of the development of corpuscularian theories. These theories, so warmly welcomed at the beginning of the 17th century that they were called ‘the key to almost all natural s
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_5
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_5
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
When the University of St Andrews was founded in 1410 its first rector was Lawrence of Lindores (circa 1437). All historians of the university mention that he was also ‘Inquisitor of heretical pravity’ — the main inquisitor of the kingdom of Sc
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_6
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_6
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_1
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9295-6_1
Autor:
R. Hooykaas
Publikováno v:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ISBN: 9789048152483
An ‘Experiment’ is a deliberate act which aims at knowledge of nature and power over nature. In medieval Latin, however, ‘experimentatum est’ can also refer to a mere rather passive observation; in modern French ‘experience’ is a word for
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