Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, Raz(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010-04)
In the seventeenth century the human observer gradually disappeared from
optical treatises. It was a paradoxical process: the naturalization of the eye
estranged the mind from its objects. Turned into a material optical ...
Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended
by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its ‘absolute existence’. We demonstrate that ...
Gal, Ofer(The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Bereft of the illusion of an epistemic vantage point external to science, what
should be our commitment towards the categories, concepts and terms of that
very science? Should we, despaired of the possibility to found ...
It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated ...
Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, Raz(Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010)
On receiving news of Galileo’s observations of the four satellites of Jupiter and the
rugged face of the moon through his newly invented perspicillum, Kepler in great
excitement exclaimed:
Therefore let Galileo take his ...
RSS 1.0