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Art, Science, and the History of Ideas

1996
The abstract artist Piet Mondrian wrote in 1937 For there are “made” laws, “discovered” laws, but also laws—a truth for all time. These are more or less hidden in the reality which surrounds us and do not change. Not only science but art also, shows us that reality, at first incomprehensible, gradually reveals itself, by the mutual relations that are ...
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The History of Science and the Idea of an Oscillating Universe

1977
At the Spring 1974 meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, an astrophysicist from Princeton, read a paper1 which made news all over the United States. In view of the particular problem which gave rise to the paper, the excitement should have seemed out of proportion.
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The Second Congress on the History of Science and Technology in London, 1931, in the history of science of the first half of the 20th century. Part I. The origin of the idea of international congresses on the history of science

The Digital Scholar: Philosopher`s Lab, 2023
The article presents the first part of the re-search devoted to the history of the Second Congress on the History of Science in London in 1931. The author reconstructs the history of the preparation of the Second International Congress on the History of Science.
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Two Historiographical Strategies: Ideas and Social Conditions in the History of Science

1984
Science has generally been thought to be an intellectual enterprise without equal and its history to be best explained using the techniques of the intellectual historian. For most historians of science, the work of Alexandre Koyre, I.B. Cohen, Henry Guerlac and Marshall Clagett, which focuses on scientific ideas and ignores what happens in society at ...
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The classification of the sciences and the quest for interdisciplinarity: a brief history of ideas from ancient philosophy to contemporary environmental science

Environmental Conservation, 2011
SUMMARYBurgeoning acquisition of information about the workings, scope and diversities of the cosmos put serious pressure on 19th-century European intellectuals to classify branches of human knowledge. A challenge presented itself not only to order different subject-areas and disciplines intelligently, or assess them according to apparent degrees of ...
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Return of the Repressed: Spinozan Ideas in the History of the Mind and Brain Sciences

2014
Spinoza’s account of the nature of the human mind, though marginalized by his contemporaries because of its religious and political implications, has persisted—remaining in print since 1677—as an intermittently surfacing undercurrent in the subsequent history of Western thought about the mind and brain. Sharing in the mechanistic assumptions of natural
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THE HISTORY OF IDEAS OF SCIENCE AND THE HISTORY OF PEOPLE OF SCIENCE

Yazykoznaniye, 2023
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The Idea of Philosophy and History in Ibn Khaldun’s Conception of Science

2015
İbn Haldun tarih ve felsefe konusundaki yeni yaklaşımlarından sebebiyle oldukça farklı bir düşünür olarak kabul edilmiştir. İslam felsefesinde Meşşâî akımın metafizik düşüncesi hakkındaki eleştirilerinden dolayı İbn Haldun felsefe karşıtı gibi anlaşılmıştır.
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Aurora Torealis: Studies in the History of Science and Ideas in Honor of Tore Frängsmyr

2008
The contributions to the history of science and ideas from antiquity to the present day published in this volume are offered as a tribute to an exceptional career, and as a gift to Tore Frängsmyr from his many friends in the international scholarly community of the history of science and ideas.
BERETTA, MARCO, K. Grandin, S. Lindqvist
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The Book of Nature and the Books of Men. Idea and History of the Book in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and Science of Nature

Quaestio, 2011
The rise of XVIIthcentury natural philosophy determines a significant break with the tradition and enthe idea of a new beginning of scientific investigation grounded on mathematics and experiment; at the same time, the diffusion of printed books represents an essential factor for the dissemination of the new philosophy.
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