
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1992
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789401050975
Full citation:
Mary J. Nye, Joan L. Richards, Roger H. Stuewer (eds), The invention of physical science, Berlin, Springer, 1992
The invention of physical science
Contents
Devils' hells and astronomers' heavens
religion, method, and popular culture in speculations about life on comets
Sara J. Schechner
3-26
The doctrine of chances without chance
determinism, mathematical probability, and quantification in the seventeenth century
Lorraine Daston
27-50