Styles of scientific thinking in the European tradition : the history of argument and explanation especially in the mathematical and biomedical sciences and arts / A.C. Crombie.

By: Crombie, A. C. (Alistair Cameron), 1915-1996
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Duckworth, 1994Description: 3 v. (xxi, 2456 p.) : ill. 25 cmISBN: 0715624393Subject(s): Medical sciences -- Europe -- History | Mathematics -- Europe -- History | Science -- Europe -- HistoryLOC classification: Q127.E8 | C76 1994
Contents:
V. 1. Science in intellectual culture -- Intellectual and moral commitments of science -- Greek mathematics -- Greek medicine -- Aristotle -- Aristotle and synthesis -- Medieval logic of experiment -- The rational artist -- The rational experimenter -- v. 2. The science of music -- Exemplary thinkers -- The imitation of nature -- The modelling of the senses -- The analogical model -- Commitments of taxonomy -- The search for a natural system -- The calculus of expectation and choice -- The statistical economy of nature -- v. 3. Commitments of historical derivation -- History of the human mind -- History of nature -- Evolution by natural selection -- Reflections.
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Books / Monographs Dominican University College Library / Collège Universitaire Dominicain
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Q 127 .E8 C76 1994 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Available 30000000618805

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1831-2419) and index.

V. 1. Science in intellectual culture -- Intellectual and moral commitments of science -- Greek mathematics -- Greek medicine -- Aristotle -- Aristotle and synthesis -- Medieval logic of experiment -- The rational artist -- The rational experimenter -- v. 2. The science of music -- Exemplary thinkers -- The imitation of nature -- The modelling of the senses -- The analogical model -- Commitments of taxonomy -- The search for a natural system -- The calculus of expectation and choice -- The statistical economy of nature -- v. 3. Commitments of historical derivation -- History of the human mind -- History of nature -- Evolution by natural selection -- Reflections.

Gift; Michael Walsh; 2014; RB315616, v. 2. RB315617, v. 3. RB315618. CaOTUTF.

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