From Myth to Modern Mind

A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought

Richard H. Schlagel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

592 Seiten

2001 | 2nd Revised edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2699-0 (ISBN)

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Having traced the origins and growth of scientific rationalism from Theogony through Ptolemy in the previous volume, Volume II begins with the fourteenth century critique of Aristotle's mechanics and ends with the development of quantum mechanics. The contributions to the breakdown of Aristotle's cosmology and its replacement with Newton's mechanistic world view are presented, along with subsequent developments in electricity, the emergence of modern chemistry with the overthrow of the phlogiston theory, and the creation of modern atomism. Finally, the evidence for the composite nature of the atom and the probing of its structure by Rutherford are discussed, as well as the revisions of classical mechanics owing to Einstein's relativity theory and the development of quantum mechanics by Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.3.2001
Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 171
Reihe/Serie	From Myth to Modern Mind. A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought ; BD II \| 1.20
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	790 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-2699-7 / 0820426997
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2699-0 / 9780820426990
Zustand	Neuware