The Ferment of Knowledge, Rousseau

Автор: Rochberg Francesca
Название: Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
ISBN: 022640613X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226406138
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Описание: In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the natural world confronts us all and always has but we are wrong. In reality, nature is a human construct. "Before Nature" is an exploration of that almost unimaginable time when there was no such thing as nature no word, reference, or sense for it.
Long before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed the cuneiform script, the earliest system of writing used for documenting and observing the world in a way not wholly dissimilar to our modern science With "Before Nature," Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the history of science, despite not being focused around a conscious category of nature. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is difficult if not impossible to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient Assyro-Babylonian investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, prediction, and explanation in relation to science without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science from a remarkable analytic and historical perspective, "Before Nature "will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.
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Автор: Jacob
Название: The First Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 1107619831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107619838
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in western Europe`s economic transformation. This is a history of economic development in which culture, minds, books and education become central.

Автор: Marco Formisano and Philip van der Eijk
Название: Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing
ISBN: 1107169437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107169432
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Various fields of knowledge are discussed, including agriculture, architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine, pharmacology. The main focus is on the interaction between texts and the transmission of knowledge.

Автор: Scott L. Montgomery
Название: Science in Translation: Movements of Knowledge through Cultures and Time
ISBN: 0226534812 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226534817
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Описание: In this work, Scott Montgomery explores the roles that translation has played in the development of Western science from antiquity to the end of the 20th century. It presents case histories of science in translation from a variety of disciplines and cultural contexts, both Western and non-Western.

Автор: Golinski, Jan.
Название: Making natural knowledge :
ISBN: 0226302318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226302317
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Описание: An introduction to constructivism, this book is a research paradigm that reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its important tensions. It sheds light on the relations between science and other cultural domains.

Автор: Charles T. Wolfe; Ofer Gal
Название: The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge
ISBN: 9048136857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048136858
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Описание: This book features papers from a workshop organized by the unit for History and Philosophy of Science in Sydney, held in 2009. It focuses on the development of empiricism as an interest in the body, both as the object of research and the subject of experience.

Автор: Peter Meusburger; Michael Welker; Edgar Wunder
Название: Clashes of Knowledge
ISBN: 9048173922 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048173921
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Описание: Do traditional distinctions between "belief" and "knowledge" still make sense? This book explores conflicts between various types of knowledge, especially between orthodox and heterodox knowledge systems, ranging from religious fundamentalism to heresies within the scientific community itself.

Автор: Drucker Donna J.
Название: The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge
ISBN: 0822963035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822963035
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Описание: Alfred C. Kinsey’s revolutionary studies of human sexual behaviour are world-renowned. His meticulous methods of data collection, from comprehensive entomological assemblies to personal sex history interviews, raised the bar for empirical evidence to an entirely new level. In The Classification of Sex, Donna J. Drucker presents an original analysis of Kinsey’s scientific career in order to uncover the roots of his research methods. She describes how his enduring interest as an entomologist and biologist in the compilation and organisation of mass data sets structured each of his classification projects. As Drucker shows, Kinsey’s lifelong mission was to find scientific truth in numbers and through observation - and to record without prejudice in the spirit of a true taxonomist.Kinsey’s doctoral work included extensive research of the gall wasp, where he gathered and recorded variations in over six million specimens. His classification and reclassification of Cynips led to the speciation of the genus that remains today. During his graduate training, Kinsey developed a strong interest in evolution and the links between entomological and human behaviour studies. In 1920, he joined Indiana University as a professor in zoology, and soon published an introductory text on biology, followed by a coauthored field guide to edible wild plants.In 1938, Kinsey began teaching a noncredit course on marriage, where he openly discussed sexual behaviour and espoused equal opportunity for orgasmic satisfaction in marital relationships. Soon after, he began gathering case histories of sexual behaviour. As a pioneer in the nascent field of sexology, Kinsey saw that the key to its cogency was grounded in observation combined with the collection and classification of mass data. To support the institutionalisation of his work, he cofounded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947. He and his staff eventually conducted over eighteen thousand personal interviews about sexual behaviour, and in 1948 he published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, to be followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.As Drucker’s study shows, Kinsey’s scientific rigour and his early use of data recording methods and observational studies were unparalleled in his field. Those practises shaped his entire career and produced a wellspring of new information, whether he was studying gall wasp wings, writing biology textbooks, tracing patterns of evolution, or developing a universal theory of human sexuality.

Автор: Ash, Mitchell G. Surman, Jan
Название: The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918
ISBN: 0230289878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230289871
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Описание: This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the Czech lands, and Hungary, the authors show how scientists in the late Habsburg Monarchy simultaneously nationalized and internationalized their knowledge.