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    Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein.Gerald James Holton - 1988 - Harvard University Press.
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    The scientific imagination: case studies.Gerald James Holton - 1978 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Using firsthand accounts gleaned from notebooks, interviews, and correspondence of such twentieth-century scientists as Einstein, Fermi, and Millikan, Holton shows how the idea of the scientific imagination has practical implications for the history and philosophy of science and the larger understanding of the place of science in our culture.
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    The scientific imagination: with a new introduction.Gerald James Holton - 1978 - Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press.
    In this book Gerald Holton takes an opposing view, illuminating the ways in which the imagination of the scientist functions early in the formation of a new ...
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    Science and anti-science.Gerald James Holton - 1993 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    This book examines these questions not in the abstract but shows their historic roots and the answers emerging from the scientific and political controversies ...
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    The advancement of science, and its burdens: the Jefferson lecture and other essays.Gerald James Holton - 1986 - New York: Cambridge University.
    In this book Professor Holton continues his analysis of how modem science works and what its influences are on our world, with particular emphasis on the role of the thematic elements - those often unconscious presuppositions that guide scientific work to success or failure. The foundation of the book is provided by the author's research on the work of Albert Einstein, which is then contrasted with other styles of research in the advancement of science. The author deals directly with the (...)
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    The Rise of Postmodernisms and the "End of Science".Gerald James Holton - 2000 - Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (2):327-341.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 61.2 (2000) 327-341 [Access article in PDF] The Rise of Postmodernisms and the "End of Science" Gerald Holton * [Errata]In a remarkable essay, "The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will," Isaiah Berlin leads up to a key question facing historians of ideas today. He begins with the observation that beliefs have entered our culture that "draw their plausibility" from a deep and radical revolt (...)
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  7. The Thematic Component in Scientific Thought: Origins of Relativity Theory and Other Essays.Gerald James Holton - 1973 - University of Texas at Austin.
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    Science and the modern mind.P. W. Bridgman, Philipp Frank & Gerald James Holton (eds.) - 1971 - Freeport, N.Y.,: Books for Libraries Press.
    Introduction, by G. Holton.--Three eighteenth-century social philosophers: scientific influences on their thought, by H. Guerlac.--Science and the human comedy: Voltaire, by H. Brown.--The seventeenth-century legacy: our mirror of being, by G. de Santillana.--Contemporary science and the contemporary world view, by P. Frank.--The growth of science and the structure of culture, by R. Oppenheimer.--The Freudian conception of man and the continuity of nature, by J. S. Bruner.--Quo vadis, by P. W. Bridgman.--Prospects for a new synthesis: science and the humanities as complementary (...)
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  9. On Being an Intellectual.Jacob Bronowski, Gerald James Holton & Clark Science Center - 1968 - Published by Smith College at the Barton-Gillet Co.
  10. Science in Culture.Gerald James Holton - 1998 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
     
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    The advancement of science, and its burdens: with a new introduction.Gerald James Holton - 1986 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    These are just a few of the questions posed in The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens.
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    Themata: zur Ideengeschichte der Physik.Gerald James Holton - 1984 - Braunschweig: F. Vieweg.
    In den letzten Jahren ist eine neue Betrachtungsweise in der Wissen­ schaftsgeschichte entstanden - eine Betrachtungsweise, die ihre fruchtbaren Ideen aus weit auseinanderliegenden Gebieten sucht, die von Wissenschafts­ philosophie und -_Jziologie bis hin zur Psychologie und Ästhetik reichen. Viel­ leicht wird bald ein neuer Name für dieses erweiterte Forschungsgebiet erfor­ derlich sein; noch wesentlicher sind jedoch seine neuen Fragestellungen, Be­ griffe und Modelle. Anhand spezifischer Fallstudien aus der Physik soll in diesem Buch ge­ zeigt werden, in welcher Beziehung die traditionellen (...)
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