{"product_id":"9789048152483","title":"Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St Andrews 1976","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science: The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St Andrews 1976\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHooykaas, R.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas  (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about  modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of  ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity  for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of discovery, managed  to come to terms with `the whimsical tricks of nature'? Central to  this erudite, penetrating, and widely ranging study is Hooykaas's  distinction between \u003cem\u003efacts\u003c\/em\u003e (given by nature yet entirely subject  to our mode of interpreting them), \u003cem\u003efaith\u003c\/em\u003e (broad conceptions like  the idea of order, of simplicity, or of harmony), and \u003cem\u003efictions\u003c\/em\u003e  in the sense of those daring intellectual tools, such as theories and  hypotheses and models, which reflect the scientist's creative  imagination. Case studies drawn from the history of all branches of  science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and from  Antiquity to the present day, serve to widen and to deepen the  understanding of every reader (whether a historian of science or not)  with a desire to learn more about the realities of the scientific  pursuit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2010-12-09\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789048152483\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-015-9295-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 462\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358936330380,"sku":"9789048152483","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789048152483.jpg?v=1772024612","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789048152483","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}