Companion to the History of Modern Science

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Routledge (1989)
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This invaluable resource is the first one-volume, in-depth, comprehensive history of modern science ever published.

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Aristotelian science.A. George Molland
Companion to the History of Modern Science.M. J. S. Hodge, R. C. Olby, N. Cantor & J. R. R. Christie
Electromagnetic Theory in the Nineteenth Century.M. Norton Wise
The Scientific Revolution.A. Schuster
The development of the historiography of science.John Rr Christie
The history of science and the working scientist.John Rg Turner
Wh Newton-Smith.I. Varieties Of Realism
Science education.  (pages 2--946)W. H. Brock
Marxism and the History of Science.  (pages 23--31)Robert M. Young
The history of science and the history of society.  (pages 32-46)Roy Porter
The history of science and the philosophy of science.  (pages 47--59)Larry Laudan
Sociological theories of scientific knowledge.  (pages 60-73)Barry Barnes
The sociology of the scientific community.  (pages 87--97)Trevor Pinch
The molecular revolution in biology.  (pages 93--100)Robert Olby
Feminism and the History of Science.  (pages 107--108)J. R. R. Christie
Language, discourse and science.  (pages 110--123)Jan V. Golinski
Continental philosophy and the history of science.  (pages 127--147)Gary Gutting
Rationality, science and history.  (pages 166--180)Larry Briskman
The Copernican revolution.  (pages 201--216)J. R. Ravetz
The scientific revolution.  (pages 217--242)John A. Schuster
Laplacian physics.  (pages 278--294)Robert Fox
Natural History, 1670–1802.”.  (pages 295--313)Phillip R. Sloan
The history of geology, 1780-1840.  (pages 314--325)Rachel Laudan
Cell theory and development.  (pages 357--373)Jane Maienschein
Origins and Species before and after Darwin.  (pages 374)Historiographic Tradition
Freud and psychoanalysis.  (pages 425)Raymond E. Fancher
The theory of relativity.  (pages 442--56)John Stachel
Quantum Theory.  (pages 458)Michael Redhead
Classical Economics and the Keynesian Revolution.  (pages 479)Bill Gerrard
From Physiology to Biochemistry.  (pages 494--501)Neil Morgan
The emergence of genetics.  (pages 521--36)Robert Olby
Cybernetics and information technology.  (pages 537--53)Michael S. Mahoney
The heart and blood from Vesalius to Harvey.  (pages 571--574)Andrew Wear
Magic and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  (pages 583--596)John Henry
Newtonianism.  (pages 610--626)Simon Schaffer
Physical Optics.  (pages 627--638)Geoffrey N. Cantor
The Foundations of Mathematics.  (pages 677--689)Philip Kitcher
Science and literature.  (pages 783--98)Gillian Beer
The Development of Philosophy of Science 1600–1900.  (pages 816--837)Ernan McMullin
Orthodoxies, critiques and alternatives.  (pages 898--908)J. R. Ravetz
Nationalism and internationalism.  (pages 909--19)Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus
Science and war.  (pages 934--945)David Edgerton
The organisation of science and its pursuit in early modern Europe.  (pages 960--79)Roger L. Emerson
Professionalisation.  (pages 980--989)J. B. Morrell
Science and political ideology, 1790-1848.  (pages 1008--23)Dorinda Outram

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