The scientific intellectual : the psychological & sociological origins of modern science / Lewis S. Feuer ; with a new introduction by the author.
The birth of modern science was linked to the rise in Western Europe of a new sensibility, that of the scientific intellectual. Such a person was no more technician, looking at science as just a job to be done, but one for whom the scientific stand-point is a philosophy in the fullest sense. In The...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Transaction 'Edition, Preface, I. The Psychological Revolution: The Emotional Source of the Scientific Movement, II. The Royal Society and the Scientists of England, III. The Nominalist Recovery of the Sense of Reality, IV. The Ethic of the Copernican Revolution, V. Scientific Revolution and Counterrevolution in Italy, VI Vesalius and the Psychological Sources of the Anatomical Revolution, VII. The Comparative Sociology of Science, VIII. The Masochist Mode of Perception in AsianCivilizations, IX. The French Revolutionary Ethic and Science, X. The Scientific Revolution Among the Jews, XI. The Scientific Intellectual in the United States, Epilogue, Appendix A: Harvey and Gilbert: Precursors of the Royal Society, Appendix B: The Enigma of Newton, Appendix C: The Membership of the Royal Society, Index.