The Growth of Scientific Ideas
- New Haven Yale University Press 1953
- 495p
includes index and biblioraphy
Matter and Motion The birth of scientific ideas All Nature for their province Order and number The geometry of the heavens-the Greek contribution The geomety of the heavens-the earth dethroned The telescope and its revelations the rise of terrestrial mechanics The dawn of universal mechanics the mathematics of moving bodies The newtonian revolution Is the law of gravitation true the celebrated phenomena of colours On waves and waviness The subject of the verb to undulate the search for the elements of matter The burning question the subtle fluids-1 Caloric Magnetic and electric How the strange behaviour of dead frog led to the discovery of new elements When is an Atom not an Atom Nature and life What is life Organisms as machines the microscope and the origin of life what`s in a name the search for the structural units the static theory of forms The history of history-the dynamic theory of forms