A short history of scientific thought / John Henry.
Henry, John, 1950-
2012
Q174.8 .H453 2012 (Mapit)
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Title A short history of scientific thought / John Henry.
Author Henry, John, 1950-
ISBN 9780230019423
0230019420
9780230019430 (pbk.)
0230019439 (pbk.)
Imprint Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Language English
Description xvii, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number Q174.8 .H453 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 501
Summary "A highly readable historical survey of the major developments in scientific thought and the impact of science on Western culture, this book takes the reader from ancient times through to the twentieth century. Organized chronologically, the book explores the history of studies of the natural world, and man's role within that world, in a single volume"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Setting the scene: natural philosophy in ancient Greece
Plato and Aristotle
From the Roman Empire to the Empire of Islam
The Western Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Nicholas Copernicus and a new world
New Methods of science
Bringing mathematics and natural philosophy together: Johannes Kepler
Mathematics and mechanics: Galileo Galilei
Practice and theory in Renaissance medicine: William Harvey and the circulation of the blood
The spirit of system: René Descartes and the mechanical philosophy
The Royal Society and experimental philosophy
Experiment, mathematics, and magic: Isaac Newton
The Newtonian enlightenment
The chemical revolution: Priestly and Lavoisier; John Dalton and beyond
Newtonian optimism: natural theology and natural order
The making of geology: from James Hutton to Charles Lyell
The history of plants and animals: successive emergence or evolution?
Religion and progress in Victorian Britain: Robert Chambers versus Hugh Miller
Bringing it all together?: Charles Darwin's evolution
Darwinian aftermaths: religion; social science; biology
Beyond Newton: energy and thermodynamics
Newton deposed: Einstein and relativity theory
Mathematics instead of a world picture: from atomism to quantum theory.

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