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- catalog abstract ""Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously differentiated from religious interpretation, although, to be sure, scientists sometimes do the philosophical work of interpreting the metaphysics of space, time, and matter. However, it is rare that either theologians or philosophers convincingly claim that they are doing the scientific work of physical scientists and mathematicians." "The rigidity of these divisions and differentiations is relatively new. Modern physical science was invented slowly and gradually through interactions of the aims and contents of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century. In essays ranging in focus from seventeenth-century interpretations of heavenly comets to twentieth-century explanations of tracks in bubble chambers, ten historians of science demonstrate metaphysical and theological threads continuing to underpin the epistemology and practice of the physical sciences and mathematics, even while they became disciplinary specialties during the last three centuries." "The volume is prefaced by tributes to Erwin N. Hiebert, whose teaching and scholarship have addressed and inspired attention to these issues."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b3919155.
- catalog contributor b3919156.
- catalog contributor b3919157.
- catalog contributor b3919158.
- catalog contributor b3919159.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""Modern physical science is constituted by specialized scientific fields rooted in experimental laboratory work and in rational and mathematical representations. Contemporary scientific explanation is rigorously differentiated from religious interpretation, although, to be sure, scientists sometimes do the philosophical work of interpreting the metaphysics of space, time, and matter. However, it is rare that either theologians or philosophers convincingly claim that they are doing the scientific work of physical scientists and mathematicians." "The rigidity of these divisions and differentiations is relatively new. Modern physical science was invented slowly and gradually through interactions of the aims and contents of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century. In essays ranging in focus from seventeenth-century interpretations of heavenly comets to twentieth-century explanations of tracks in bubble chambers, ten historians of science demonstrate metaphysical and theological threads continuing to underpin the epistemology and practice of the physical sciences and mathematics, even while they became disciplinary specialties during the last three centuries." "The volume is prefaced by tributes to Erwin N. Hiebert, whose teaching and scholarship have addressed and inspired attention to these issues."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Devils' hells and astronomers' heavens / Sara Schechner Genuth -- The doctrine of chances without chance / Lorraine J. Daston -- God, truth, and mathematics in nineteenth-century England / Joan L. Richards -- Theologians, science, and theories of truth in nineteenth-century Germany / Frederick Gregory -- Equivalence, pragmatic platonism, and discovery of the calculus / Skuli Sigurdsson -- The training of German research physicists Heinrich Hertz / Jed Buchwald -- From psychophysics to phenomenalism / Richard L. Kremer -- A usable past : creating disciplinary space for physical chemistry / Diana Kormos Barkan -- Physics and chemistry : commensurate or incommensurate sciences? / Mary Jo Nye -- FORTRAN, physics, and human nature / Peter Galison.".
- catalog description "Includes index and bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xxxiv, 275 :".
- catalog identifier "079231753X (HB : acid free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 139".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
- catalog subject "001/.01 s 500.2/09 20".
- catalog subject "Hiebert, Erwin N., 1919-".
- catalog subject "Hiebert, Erwin N., 1919-2012.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics History.".
- catalog subject "Physical sciences History.".
- catalog subject "Physics History.".
- catalog subject "Q174 .B67 vol. 139 Q158.5".
- catalog subject "Theology History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Devils' hells and astronomers' heavens / Sara Schechner Genuth -- The doctrine of chances without chance / Lorraine J. Daston -- God, truth, and mathematics in nineteenth-century England / Joan L. Richards -- Theologians, science, and theories of truth in nineteenth-century Germany / Frederick Gregory -- Equivalence, pragmatic platonism, and discovery of the calculus / Skuli Sigurdsson -- The training of German research physicists Heinrich Hertz / Jed Buchwald -- From psychophysics to phenomenalism / Richard L. Kremer -- A usable past : creating disciplinary space for physical chemistry / Diana Kormos Barkan -- Physics and chemistry : commensurate or incommensurate sciences? / Mary Jo Nye -- FORTRAN, physics, and human nature / Peter Galison.".
- catalog title "The Invention of physical science : intersections of mathematics, theology, and natural philosophy since the seventeenth century : essays in honor of Erwin N. Hiebert / edited by Mary Jo Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".