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History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times.

History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9780511734359
著者・編者Whewell, William,
シリーズ (History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set Volume 3)
出版社 (Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2010
ページ数642 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A00-97797>

解説

A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the mechanics, astronomy, and chemistry of 'modern times'. Volume 3 first covers the mechanico-chemical sciences, emphasizing the convergence of mechanical and chemical theories in discoveries pertaining to electricity, magnetism and thermodynamics. A section on chemistry surveys Becher and Stahl's phlogiston theory, Lavoisier's theory of oxygen, and Faraday's laws of electromagnetic induction. The volume also covers mineralogy, botany, zoology, and anatomy.