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Title: Newton and the Culture of Newtonianism (The Control of Nature) by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, Margaret C. Jacob, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, Morton L. Schagrin, Michael Ruse ISBN: 1-57392-545-4 Publisher: Humanity Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Scoop on Newton
Comment: What a terrific introduction to the origins of modern science! The authors have provided a balanced, lucid and engaging treatment of a pivotal topic in modern science and culture. The book falls into two parts. The first section provides a thumbnail sketch of Newton's life and scientific achievements, written with a talent for abbreviated grace. The second section shifts to the multifaceted impact of Newton's achievement and surveys the origins of both the Enlightenment and the First Industrial Revolution with panache. The authors, top scholars in their fields, have written an excellent, short book on a big subject for students and the general reader. It's just what we need but rarely get.
Rating: 3
Summary: High School History of Science
Comment: Dobbs and Jacob provide a very good introduction to the history of science at a high school level. This is a rare thing in an academic discipline that, like many others, increasingly limits its audience to other specialists in the field. The chapters are well written and the book avoids being an excessively laudatory biography, despite its focus on one of the "Great Men" of science. If the book has one shortcoming it is that the chapters do not fit together well to form a coherent whole. It shows some of the roughness indicative of a cooperative work.
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Title: The Scientific Revolution : Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700 (The Control of Nature Series) by James R. Jacob, Morton L. Schagrin, Michael Ruse ISBN: 1573925462 Publisher: Humanity Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus by Paracelsus, C. Lilian Temkin, George Rosen, Gregory Zilboorg, Henry E. Sigerist ISBN: 0801855233 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (California Studies in the History of Science, Vol 1) by Maurice A. Finocchiaro ISBN: 0520066626 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books) by Michael White ISBN: 073820143X Publisher: Perseus Book Group Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn ISBN: 0226458083 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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