Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: science, revolution
Number of Pages: 732
Published: 1987-03-15
List price: $28.50
ISBN-10: 0674767780
ISBN-13: 9780674767782

Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, Revolution in Science traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, weaving threads of detail from physics, mathematics, behaviorism, Freud, atomic physics, and even plate tectonics and molecular biology, into the larger fabric of intellectual history. How did "revolution," a term from the physical sciences, meaning a turning again and implying permanence and recur

Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: revolution, newtonian
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1983-04-29
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0521273803
ISBN-13: 9780521273800

This volume presents Professor Cohen’s original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The heart of the radical Newtonian style is the construction on the mind of a mathematical system that has some features in common with the physical w

Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: sciences, social, natural, contacts, interactions
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1994-11-29
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0262531240
ISBN-13: 9780262531245

One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science - a science of government, of individual behavior, and of society - that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. This book, by the dean of American historians of science, offers an excellent historical perspective on these interactions. The core of the book consists of two long essays. The first focuses on the role of analogies as

Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
Keywords: development, science, spectra, light, theory, wave
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 1981-06
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0405138679
ISBN-13: 9780405138676

Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: updated, revised, physics, new, birth
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 1985-08-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0393300455
ISBN-13: 9780393300451

The earth circles the sun every year and rotates on its axis every twenty-four hours. The earth does not stand still. These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and would not an object thrown straight up come down far away? Then came the Renaissance and with it Cope

Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Arno Press
Keywords: america, three, centuries, science, anthology, original, father, mathematics, benjamin, peirce
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1980-04
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0405125631
ISBN-13: 9780405125638

Author: Saul Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: relations, international, geography, geopolitics
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2008-07-17
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 074255676X
ISBN-13: 9780742556768

Written by one of the world’s leading political geographers, this fully revised and updated textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological and economic forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War. Saul Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations.