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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2002

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401039376

ISBN (eBook): 9789401005876

Full citation:

Teun Koetsier, Ida H. Stamhuis, Cornelis De Pater, Albert Van Helden (eds), The changing image of the sciences, Berlin, Springer, 2002

The changing image of the sciences

Contents

Introduction

Albert Van Helden

1-7

In our own image

creating the computer

Michael S. Mahoney

9-27

Changing images of chemistry

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent

29-41

The changing image of biology in the twentieth century

Garland E. Allen

43-83

The image of physics

Abraham Pais

85-103

Re-imag(in)ing women in science

projecting identity and negotiating gender in science

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Donald L. Opitz

105-139

Science in the mirror of "big history"

David Christian

141-169

The changing images of unity and disunity in the philosophy of science

Steve Fuller

171-194