000			04694cam a2200661Ma 4500
001			ocn952666762
003			OCoLC
005			20220908100111.0
006			m o d
007			cr |n|||||||||
008			160701s2016 xx o 000 0 eng d
040			_aIDEBK _beng _epn _cIDEBK _dN$T _dOCLCF _dOCLCQ _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dJSTOR _dYDX _dIEEEE _dOCLCO
019			_a1145388801
020			_a140088358X _q(electronic bk.)
020			_a9781400883585 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z0691172528
020			_z9780691172521
029	1		_aAU@ _b000065068292
029	1		_aAU@ _b000067035586
029	1		_aAU@ _b000070029795
035			_a(OCoLC)952666762 _z(OCoLC)1145388801
037			_a934557 _bMIL
037			_a22573/ctvc628pc _bJSTOR
037			_a9453251 _bIEEE
050		4	_aQ125 _b.G49
072		7	_aSCI _x034000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a509 _223
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aGillispie, Charles Coulston. _964769
245	1	0	_aEdge of Objectivity.
260			_bPrinceton University Press, _c2016.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aPrinceton Science Library (Paperback)
588	0		_aPrint version record.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- Foreword -- Introduction to the new paperback edition -- Full circle -- Art, life, and experiment -- The new philosophy -- Newton with his prism and silent face -- Science and the Enlightenment -- The rationalization of matter -- The history of nature -- Biology comes of age -- Early energetics -- Field physics -- Epilogue -- Bibliographic essay.
520			_aOriginally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles Gillispie began teaching Humanities 304, one of the first undergraduate courses offered anywhere in the world on the history of science. From Galileo's analysis of motion to theories of evolution and relativity, Gillispie introduces key concepts, individuals, and themes. The Edge of Objectivity arose out of this course. It must have been a lively class. The Edge of Objectivity is pointed, opinionated, and selective. Even at six hundred pages, the book is, as the title suggests, an essay. Gillispie is unafraid to rate Mendel higher than Darwin, Maxwell above Faraday. Full of wry turns of phrase, the book effectively captures people and places. And throughout the book, Gillispie pushes an argument. He views science as the progressive development of more objective, detached, mathematical ways of viewing the world, and he orchestrates his characters and ideas around this theme. This edition of Charles Coulston Gillispie’s landmark book introduces a new generation of readers to his provocative and enlightening account of the advancement of scientific thought over the course of four centuries. Since the original publication of The Edge of Objectivity , historians of science have focused increasingly on the social context of science rather than its internal dynamics, and they have frequently viewed science more as a threatening instance of power than as an accumulation of knowledge. Nevertheless, Gillispie’s book remains a sophisticated, fast-moving, idiosyncratic account of the development of scientific ideas over four hundred years, by one of the founding intellects in the history of science. Featuring a new foreword by Theodore Porter, who places the work in its intellectual context and the development of the field, this edition of The Edge of Objectivity is a monumental work by one of the founding intellects of the history of science.
590			_aIEEE _bIEEE Xplore Princeton University Press eBooks Library
650		0	_aScience _xHistory. _964702
650		0	_aScience _xPhilosophy. _922225
650		6	_aSciences _xHistoire. _964770
650		7	_aSCIENCE _xHistory. _2bisacsh _964702
650		7	_aSCIENCE / History _2bisacsh _919261
650		7	_aScience. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01108176 _919043
650		7	_aScience _xPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01108336 _922225
655		4	_aElectronic books. _93294
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628 _95289
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780691172521 _z0691172528 _w(OCoLC)959958002
856	4	0	_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?bknumber=9453251
938			_aEBSCOhost _bEBSC _n1223461
938			_aProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection _bIDEB _ncis34905051
938			_aYBP Library Services _bYANK _n13012985
942			_cEBK
994			_a92 _bINTKS
999			_c81342 _d81342