Series:History of the Inductive Sciences 3 Volume Set
Format:Paperback / softback 642 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108019262
Published:9 Sep 2010
Weight:812g
Dimensions:147 x 220 x 42 (mm)
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书籍简介
作为维多利亚时代科学的核心人物,胡威立(1794-1866)在剑桥大学三一学院担任矿物学和道德哲学教授,并于1841年成为该学院的院长。他的数学教科书,如《动力学论》(A Treatise on Dynamics)(1823年),在将法国分析方法引入英国科学方面发挥了重要作用。这部三卷本的历史,出版于1837年,是胡威立知名的作品之一。它以 "希腊哲学的尖锐但无结果的文章 "为起点,提供了一部物理科学的历史,以 "现代 "的机械学、天文学和化学为高潮。第三卷首先涵盖了机械-化学科学,强调了机械和化学理论在与电、磁和热力学有关的发现中的融合。关于化学的部分调查了贝歇尔和斯塔尔的活塞理论、拉瓦锡的氧气理论和法拉第的电磁感应定律。该卷还包括矿物学、植物学、动物学和解剖学。
A central figure in Victorian science, William Whewell (1794-1866) held professorships in Mineralogy and Moral Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, before becoming Master of the college in 1841. His mathematical textbooks, such as A Treatise on Dynamics (1823), were instrumental in bringing French analytical methods into British science. This three-volume history, first published in 1837, is one of Whewell's most famous works. Taking the 'acute, but fruitless, essays of Greek philosophy' as a starting point, it provides a history of the physical sciences that culminates with the mechanics, astronomy, and chemistry of 'modern times'. Volume 3 first covers the mechanico-chemical sciences, emphasizing the convergence of mechanical and chemical theories in discoveries pertaining to electricity, magnetism and thermodynamics. A section on chemistry surveys Becher and Stahl's phlogiston theory, Lavoisier's theory of oxygen, and Faraday's laws of electromagnetic induction. The volume also covers mineralogy, botany, zoology, and anatomy.
目录
Part III. The Mechanico-Chemical Sciences; Book XI. History of Electricity: 1. Discovery of the laws of electric phenomena; 2. The progress of electrical theory; Book XII. History of Magnetism: 1. Discovery of the laws of magnetic phenomena; 2. Progress of magnetic theory; Book XIII. History of Galvanism, or Voltaic Electricity: 1. Discovery of voltaic electricity; 2. Reception and confirmation of the discovery of voltaic electricity; 3. Discovery of the laws of the mutual attraction and repulsion of voltaic currents; 4. Discovery of electro-magnetic action. Oersted; 5. Discovery of the laws of electro-magnetic action; 6. Theory of electro-dynamic action; 7. Consequences of the electro-dynamic theory; 8. Discovery of the laws of magneto-electric induction. Faraday; 9. Transition to chemical science; Part IV. The Analytical Science. Book XIV. History of Chemistry: 1. Improvement of the notion of chemical analysis, and recognition of it as the spagiric art; 2. Doctrine of acid and alkali. Sylvius; 3. Doctrine of elective attractions. Geoffroy. Bergman; 4. Doctrine of acidification and combustion. Phlogistic theory; 5. Chemistry of gases. Black. Cavendish; 6. Epoch of the theory of oxygen. Lavoisier; 7. Application and correction of the oxygen theory; 8. Theory of definite, reciprocal, and multiple proportions; 9. Epoch of Davy and Faraday; 10. Transition from the chemical to the classificatory sciences; Part V. The Analytico-Classificatory Science; Book XV. History of Mineralogy: Introduction; 1. Prelude to the epoch of De Lisle and Hauy; 2. Epoch of Rome and Hauy. Establishment of the fixity of crystalline angles, and the simplicity of the laws of derivation; 3. Reception and corrections of the Hauian crystallography; 4. Establishment of the distinction of systems of crystallization. Weiss and Mohs; 5. Reception and confirmation of the distinction of systems of crystallization; 6. Correction of the law of the same angle for the same substance; 7. Attempts to establish the fixity of other physical properties. Werner; 8. Attempts at the classification of minerals; 9. Attempts at the reform of mineralogical systems. Separation of the chemical and natural history methods; Part VI. Classificatory Sciences; Book XVI. History of Systematic Botany and Zoology: 1. Imaginary knowledge of plants; 2. Unsystematic knowledge of plants; 3. Formation of a system of arrangement of plants; 4. The reform of Linnaeus; 5. Progress towards a natural system of botany; 6. The progress of systematic zoology; 7. The progress of ichthyology; Part VII. Organical Sciences; Book XVII. History of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy: 1. Discovery of the organs of voluntary motion; 2. Discovery of the circulation of the blood; 3. Discovery of the motion of the chyle, and consequent speculations; 4. Examination of the process of reproduction in animals and plants, and consequent speculations; 5. Examination of the nervous system, and consequent speculations; 6. Introduction of the principle of developed and metamorphosed symmetry; 7. Progress of animal morphology; 8. The doctrine of final causes in physiology; Part VIII. The Palaetiological Sciences; Book XVIII. History of Geology: 1. Prelude to systematic descriptive geology; 2. Formation of systematic descriptive geology; 3. Sequel to the formation of systematic descriptive geology; 4. Attempts to discover general laws in geology; 5. Inorganic geological dynamics; 6. Progress of the geological dynamics of organized beings; 7. Progress of physical geology; 8. The two antagonist doctrines of geology.
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