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1 online resource (359 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: The Growth of a Common Sense Philosophy of Science; Part II: The Influence of Common Sense Ideas on the Exact Sciences in Britain. |
| Summary |
Historians of science have long been intrigued by the impact of disparate cultural styles on the science of a given country and time period. Richard Olson's book is a case study in the interaction between philosophy and science as well as an examination of a particular scientific movement. The author investigates the methodological arguments of the Common Sense philosophers Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, and William Hamilton and the possible transmission of their ideas to scientists from John Playfair to James Clerk Maxwell. His findings point out the need for modifications to t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Physics -- Philosophy.
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Physics -- Philosophy. |
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Physics -- Great Britain -- History.
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Physics. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Philosophy, Scottish.
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Philosophy, Scottish. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Olson, Richard, 1940- Scottish philosophy and British physics, 1750-1880 : a study in the foundations of the Victorian scientific style. Princeton, New Jersey ; London, [England] : Princeton University Press, ©1975 vii, 349 pages Princeton legacy library. 9780691617947 (OCoLC)1174666 |
| ISBN |
9781400872497 (electronic book) |
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1400872499 (electronic book) |
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9780691617947 |
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0691617945 |
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