Practical Matter

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Margaret C. Jacob

页数:216

出版时间:2005-1-2

价格:USD 47.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674014978

图书标签:科学革命科学史科学牛顿主义牛顿工业革命大英帝国历史

Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his "Principia" to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and examines how, despite powerful opposition on the Continent, a Newtonian understanding gained acceptance and practical application. By the mid-eighteenth century the new science had achieved ascendancy, and the race was on to apply Newtonian mechanics to industry and manufacturing. They end the story with the temple to scientific and technological progress that was the Crystal Palace exhibition. Choosing their examples carefully, Jacob and Stewart show that there was nothing preordained or inevitable about the centrality awarded to science. "It is easy to forget that science might have been stillborn, or remained the esoteric knowledge of court elites. Instead, for better and for worse, science became a centerpiece of Western culture."

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将现代科学（理论）的诞生与工业革命的产生联系起来虽然不能说错，但多少带有了目的论（teleology）性质——从知识的总结到实践的检验再到文化的形成，虽然每一层级的（向下）推进都需要坚实的科学理论与社会与生产实践作为基础，而带来质变的发展却可能是一些偶然与灵感作祟

将现代科学（理论）的诞生与工业革命的产生联系起来虽然不能说错，但多少带有了目的论（teleology）性质——从知识的总结到实践的检验再到文化的形成，虽然每一层级的（向下）推进都需要坚实的科学理论与社会与生产实践作为基础，而带来质变的发展却可能是一些偶然与灵感作祟

将现代科学（理论）的诞生与工业革命的产生联系起来虽然不能说错，但多少带有了目的论（teleology）性质——从知识的总结到实践的检验再到文化的形成，虽然每一层级的（向下）推进都需要坚实的科学理论与社会与生产实践作为基础，而带来质变的发展却可能是一些偶然与灵感作祟

将现代科学（理论）的诞生与工业革命的产生联系起来虽然不能说错，但多少带有了目的论（teleology）性质——从知识的总结到实践的检验再到文化的形成，虽然每一层级的（向下）推进都需要坚实的科学理论与社会与生产实践作为基础，而带来质变的发展却可能是一些偶然与灵感作祟

将现代科学（理论）的诞生与工业革命的产生联系起来虽然不能说错，但多少带有了目的论（teleology）性质——从知识的总结到实践的检验再到文化的形成，虽然每一层级的（向下）推进都需要坚实的科学理论与社会与生产实践作为基础，而带来质变的发展却可能是一些偶然与灵感作祟