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The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time. With readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Darwin, Faraday, and Maxwell, it analyses and discusses major classical, medieval and modern texts and figures from the natural sciences. Grouped by topic to clarify the development of methods and disciplines and the unification of theories, each section includes an introduction, suggestions for further reading and end-of-section discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed to: § read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and ideas from the history and philosophy of science § understand and evaluate scientific material found in a wide variety of professional and popular settings § appreciate the social and cultural context in which scientific ideas emerge § identify the roles that mathematics plays in scientific inquiry Featuring primary sources in all the core scientific fields - astronomy, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences - The History and Philo

Who reads The History and Philosophy of Science : a Reader?

Author

Daniel J. McKaughan (editor); Holly VandeWall (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474232746

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Science

Rating

3.2 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14