Relocating the History of Science Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu / [electronic resource] :
edited by Theodore Arabatzis, Jürgen Renn, Ana Simões.
- Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015.
- 1 online resource (VII, 383 p. 2 illus.)
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 312 0068-0346 ; .
PART I: HISTORY OF MODERN PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 1: Louis Paul Cailletet, the Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of an 'In-between Discipline': Low-temperature Research; Faidra Papanelopoulou -- Chapter 2: Lindemann and Einstein: The Oxford Connexion; Robert Fox -- Chapter 3: Einstein and Hilbert; John Stachel -- Chapter 4: Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum Revolution; Sylvan Schweber and Gal BenPorat -- PART II: STEP MATTERS -- Chapter 5: Centres and Peripheries Revisited: STEP and the Mainstream Historiography of Science; Agusti Nieto-Galan -- Chapter 6: At the Center and the Periphery: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Botanizes in Crete; Lorraine Daston -- Chapter 7: Boscovich in Britain; John Heilbron -- Chapter 8: Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: In Search of a European Identity; Manolis Patiniotis -- Chapter 9: The Non-introduction of Low-temperature Physics in Spain: Julio Palacios and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes; Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron -- Chapter 10: Beyond Borders in the History of Science Education; Jose Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez -- PART III: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Chapter 11: Probable Reasoning and Its Novelties; Ian Hacking -- Chapter 12: Reductionism and the Relation between Chemistry and Physics; Hasok Chang -- Chapter 13: The Internal-External Sistinction Sheds Light on the History of the Twentieth-century Philosophy of Science; Gürol Irzik -- Chapter 14: Concepts out of Theoretical Contexts; Theodore Arabatzis and Nancy Nersessian -- PART IV: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MUSINGS -- Chapter 15: Globalization of Knowledge in History and its Normative Challenges; Jürgen Renn -- Chapter 16: The Global and the Local in the Study of the Humanities; Rivka Feldhay -- Chapter 17: On Scientific Biography and Biographies of Scientists; Helge Kragh -- Chapter 18: Biography and the History of Science; Mary Jo Nye -- Chapter 19: Different Undertakings, Common Practices: Some Directions for the History of Science; Ana Simões -- PART V: BEYOND HISTORY OF SCIENCE: MATHEMATICS, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- Chapter 20: The Meaning of Hypostasis in Diophantus' Arithmetica; Jean Christianidis -- Chapter 21: On the Hazardousness of the Concept 'Technology': Notes on a Conversation between the History of Science and the History of Technology; Aristotle Tympas -- Chapter 22: Wireless at the Bar: Experts, Circuits and Marconi's Inventions in Patent Disputes in Early Twentieth-century Britain; Efstathios Arapostathis -- Chapter 23: Curating the European University; Hans Jörg Rheinberger -- Chapter 24: Can Science Make Peace with the Environment? Science, Power, Exploitation; Angelo Baracca.