Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences presents a sampling of work in the history of science by colleagues and former students and associates of I. Bernard Cohen, one of the most influential figures in the rise of the history of science as a scholarly discipline. The volume is divided into four parts: the history and philosophy of the exact sciences and mathematics; the eighteenth-century tradition; science in America; and scientific ideas in their cultural context. These major themes, each of which has been a subject of study by Professor Cohen, will interest a range of historians interested in the development of science and the history of ideas.
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I. Bernard Cohen is one of the most influential figures in the rise of the history of science. This volume in his honour deals with: the history and philosophy of the exact sciences and mathematics; the eighteenth-century tradition; science in America; and scientific ideas in their cultural context.
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I propose in this paper to look at one link between fourteenth-century science and Newton-namely, a concept of compounding ratios common to Thomas Bradwardine's De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus, to Nicole Oresme's De proportionibus proportionum, and to the first edition of Isaac Newton's Principia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
passive mobilis, tradition concerning ratio, automorphic function concept, populationist program, genetic perfectibility, sunt instantia, mobile argument, diebus quam, mutata esse, compounding ratios, number atomism, epicyclic sphere, mercantile metaphor, proportionibus proportionum, lineae physiologiae, lesser inequality, transfinite set theory, faster mobile, partibus corporis, incommensurable magnitudes, animal mechanics, unius diei, eccentric sphere, sentient principle, continuous ratios Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Renewal Committee, History of Science Society, Harvard University Press, World War, College of Surgeons, Preparatory Committee, Francis Bacon, Albrecht von Haller, Newton's Principia, Royal Society, Cambridge University Press, Georg Cantor, Isaac Newton, Euclid's Elements, Joseph Priestley, Bernard Cohen, Columbia University, George Sarton, Massachusetts General Hospital, William Ferrel, National Academy of Sciences, Oxford University Press, Shen Kua New!
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I propose in this paper to look at one link between fourteenth-century science and Newton-namely, a concept of compounding ratios common to Thomas Bradwardine's De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus, to Nicole Oresme's De proportionibus proportionum, and to the first edition of Isaac Newton's Principia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
passive mobilis, tradition concerning ratio, automorphic function concept, populationist program, genetic perfectibility, sunt instantia, mobile argument, diebus quam, mutata esse, compounding ratios, number atomism, epicyclic sphere, mercantile metaphor, proportionibus proportionum, lineae physiologiae, lesser inequality, transfinite set theory, faster mobile, partibus corporis, incommensurable magnitudes, animal mechanics, unius diei, eccentric sphere, sentient principle, continuous ratios Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Renewal Committee, History of Science Society, Harvard University Press, World War, College of Surgeons, Preparatory Committee, Francis Bacon, Albrecht von Haller, Newton's Principia, Royal Society, Cambridge University Press, Georg Cantor, Isaac Newton, Euclid's Elements, Joseph Priestley, Bernard Cohen, Columbia University, George Sarton, Massachusetts General Hospital, William Ferrel, National Academy of Sciences, Oxford University Press, Shen Kua New!
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