Science and Its History
Joseph Agassi
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Description for Science and Its History
Paperback. This intriguing book teaches how to avoid reading and writing boring material and in doing so it enlivens the history of science. The book appears here in a revised and updated version with responses to reviews and with many additional chapters. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 536 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 821.
Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, Geroge Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the philosophy and history of science. Here it appears in a revised and updated version with responses to these reviews and with many additional chapters, some already classic, others new. They are all paradigms of the author’s innovative way of writing fresh and engaging chapters in the history of the natural sciences.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Number of Pages
514
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048174140
SKU
V9789048174140
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