Elements of Mechanical Philosophy
Author : John Robison
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Category : Astronomy
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Author : John Robison
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Category : Astronomy
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Author : John Robison
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Category : Astronomy
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Author : William Barton Rogers
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Page : 360 pages
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Category : Mechanics
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Author : John 1739-1805 Robison
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Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
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Author : John 1739-1805 Robison
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 804 pages
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Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362045878
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Author : John Robison
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Page : 696 pages
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Category : Astronomy
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Author : Stuart Glennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198779712
This volume argues for a new image of science that understands both natural and social phenomena to be the product of mechanisms, casting the work of science as an effort to understand those mechanisms. Glennan offers an account of the nature of mechanisms and of the models used to represent them in physical, life, and social sciences.
Author : John ROBISON
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Author : Stuart Glennan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 131755230X
Scientists studying the burning of stars, the evolution of species, DNA, the brain, the economy, and social change, all frequently describe their work as searching for mechanisms. Despite this fact, for much of the twentieth century philosophical discussions of the nature of mechanisms remained outside philosophy of science. The Routledge Handbook of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into four Parts: Historical perspectives on mechanisms The nature of mechanisms Mechanisms and the philosophy of science Disciplinary perspectives on mechanisms. Within these Parts central topics and problems are examined, including the rise of mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century; what mechanisms are made of and how they are organized; mechanisms and laws and regularities; how mechanisms are discovered and explained; dynamical systems theory; and disciplinary perspectives from physics, chemistry, biology, biomedicine, ecology, neuroscience, and the social sciences. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of science, the Handbook will also be of interest to those in related fields, such as metaphysics, philosophy of psychology, and history of science.
Author : John Robison
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780267730896
Excerpt from Elements of Mechanical Philosophy, Vol. 1: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on That Science; Including Dynamics and Astronomy This is a {hort way of writing A za B 5, in which A and a are fucceflive values of one changeable magni-o itude, and B, 5, the correfponding or fimultaneou's values' of the other. In this fymbol, a and 5 may be magnitudes of difi'erent kinds, which cannot hold with refpeet to the fymbol a 5, becaufe there is no proportion between' magnitudes of different kinds, as between a yard and a pound, an hour and a force, 8m. This may be called the fymbol of a proportional equation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.