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Science since Babylon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Yale University Press 1975 LondonDescription: xvi, 215 p.: ill. Include indexISBN:
  • 9780300017984
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509 D3S2
Summary: An eye-opening work for anyone concerned with the humanistic understanding of science This timely classic investigates the circumstances and consequences of certain vital decisions relating to scientific crises that have brought the world to its present state of scientific and technological development. It calls for a completely new range of studies to take its place in the territory between the humanities and the sciences. Derek deSolla Price documents his study with accounts of his own researches in his specific fields of interest, relating them to the “crises” which he believes to be of paramount importance. This enlarged edition offers a broad range of materials, from ancient automata, talismans and symbols, to the differences of modern science and technology. https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300017984
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 27-B / Slot 1329 (0 Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 509 D3S2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 204181

Table of Contents

The peculiarity of a scientific civilization --
Celestial clockwork in Greece and China --
Automata and the origins of mechanism and mechanistic philosophy
The and other geometrical and scientific talismans and symbolisms
Renaissance roots of Yankee ingenuity --
Mutations of science --
Diseases of science --
Epilogue: humanities of science

An eye-opening work for anyone concerned with the humanistic understanding of science

This timely classic investigates the circumstances and consequences of certain vital decisions relating to scientific crises that have brought the world to its present state of scientific and technological development. It calls for a completely new range of studies to take its place in the territory between the humanities and the sciences. Derek deSolla Price documents his study with accounts of his own researches in his specific fields of interest, relating them to the “crises” which he believes to be of paramount importance. This enlarged edition offers a broad range of materials, from ancient automata, talismans and symbols, to the differences of modern science and technology.

https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300017984

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