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L'invention scientifique - Thémata et interprétation , Traduit de l'anglais par Paul Scheurer
Presses Universitaires de France - P.U.F. , Croisées Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1982 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée à rabats éditeur blanche, illustrée d'un rectangle bleu fort et grand In-8 1 vol. - 469 pages
1ere édition française, 1982 "Contents, Chapitres : Introduction (L'état naissant - La composante thématique - Dimensions de la recherche scientifique moderne) - L'imagination thématique en science - Les racines de la complémentarité - Sous-électrons, présuppositions et la controverse Millikan - Ehrenhaft - Mach, Einstein et la recherche du réel - Einstein, Michelson et l'expérience ""cruciale"" - Essayer de comprendre le génie scientifique - Index et table - Gerald James Holton, né le 23 mai 1922 à Berlin, est un physicien, écrivain scientifique un professeur américain. Établi aux États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ses intérêts se portent surtout sur la philosophie et l'histoire des sciences. - Cet ouvrage est la traduction des chapitres 1, 4, 8, 9, 10 du livre ""Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought"" et des chapitres 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 du livre ""The Scientific Imagination"" de Gerald Holton" couverture un peu jaunie avec quelques rousseurs discrètes, une trace de pliure au coin supérieur gauche du plat inférieur, la couverture est sinon en bon état, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni, quelques rousseurs sur les tranches n'affectent pas l'intérieur à part les pages de gardes, cela reste un bon exemplaire d'un texte important de la sociologie des sciences
L'imagination scientifique.
Paris Gallimard 1981 Un volume in-8 broché, couverture blanche, 487 pages. Quelques rares passages soulignés au crayon, néanmoins bon état.
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L'invention scientifique,
PUF, Croisées, 1982 pp., broché, couverture un peu défraîchie, plis de lecture sur le dos, annotation en première page, état correct.
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Foundations of Modern Physical Science
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. , Addison-Wesley Physics Books Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1959 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's full blue printed clothes, red title-piece on the spine, no dust-jacket fort In-8 1 vol. - 805 pages
many black and white text-figures, 1 plate in frontispiece second reprinted edition, 1959 (1st was 1958) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Introduction, xxiii, Text, 782 pages - 1. The study of motion : Speed and acceleration - Galileo and the kinematicq of free fall - Projectile motion - 2. The study of forces : Newton's law of motion - Uniform circular motion - 3. The study of planetary systems : The astronomy of Ancient Greece - The heliocentric theory of Copernicus - On the nature of scientific theory - Kepler's laws - Galileo's contribution to astronomy - The theory of universal gravitation - Some consequences of Newton's work - 4. On structure and method in physical science : On the nature of concepts - On the duality and growth of science - On scientific discovery - 5. The conservation principles : The principle of conservation of mass - The principle of conservation of momentum - The principle of conservation of energy in mechanics - Heat phenomena and the caloric theory - Extension of the principle of conservation of energy - 6. Origins of the atomic theory in physics and chemistry : Gases and the structure of matter - Dalton's atomic theory of chemistry - The rise of modern chemistry - The periodic system of the elements - The kinetic theory of matter and heat - 7. Theories of fields in electricity and magnetism : The quantification of electrical science - Further developments in electrostatics - Electrochemistry and electromagnetism - The electromagnetic theory of light - 8. The quantum physics of light and matter : Some optical principles - Continuous spectra, birth of the quantum theory - The photoelectric effect, Einstein's photon theory - Spectra of gases - The atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr - Further successes of Bohr's theory of atomic structures - 9. The nucleus : Radioactivity - Isotopes - Nuclear structure and nuclear energy - Further developments of nuclear physics - Appendices and index editor's binding is clean and unmarked, very small spot on the front part, no dust-jacket, inside is clean, a small bookseller stamp on the first page (it' s not an ex-library copy), the top right corner of the end-paper (first page) had been cut off, without missing of text, text is clean, very few red annotations on less than 10 pages, the text remains always readable, mainly underlining with a rule, it's still a very good reading copy of this master work from Bernal and Roller
Einstein, History and Other Passions - The Rebellion against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century
Addison - Wesley Publishing Company Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1996 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's blue and black wrappers, illustrated by a portray of Einstein grand In-8 1 vol. - 242 pages
1st edition, 1996 "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, xii, Text, Notes, Ackowledgments, Index, 240 pages - 1. Science in history : What place for science at the "" end of the Modern Era "" ? - The public image of science - "" Doing one's damnedest "" : The evolution of trust in scientific findings - Imagination in science - Understanding the history of science - 2. Learning from Einstein : Enstein's influence on the culture of our time - Einstein and the goal of science - Of physics, love, and other passions : The letters of Albert and Mileva - "" What, precisely, is thinking ? "" ... Einstein's answer " near fine copy, no markings except a translation agency stamp and a letter enclosed, text remains clean and unmarked, a rather nice copy
The Advancement of Science, and its Burdens , The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Albert Einstein)
Cambridge University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1986 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's red wrappers grand In-8 1 vol. - 362 pages
1st edition, 1986 (paperback) "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, xi, Text, Notes, Acknowledgments, Index, 351 pages - 1. Einstein and the culture of science : Thematic presuppositions and the direction of scientific advance - Einstein's model for constructing a scientific theory - Einstein's scientific program : The formative years - Einstein's search for the Weltbild - Einstein and the shaping of your imagination - Physics in America, and Einstein's decision to immigrate - 2. On the history of twentieth-century physical science : "" Success sanctifies the means "" : Heisenberg, Oppenheimer, and the transition to modern physics - Do scientists need a philosophy ? - Science, technology, and the fourth discontinuity - 3. Science, education, and the public interest : The two maps - From the endless frontier to the ideology of limits - Metaphors in science and education - "" A natin at risk "" revised - "" The advancement of science, and its burdens "" : the Jefferson Lecture" near fine copy, the editor's wrappers is near fine, spine is lightly discoloured, inside is fine, no markings
L'imagination scientifique
Gallimard Couverture souple Paris 1981
Très bon In-8. 487 pages. Coll. "Bibliothèque des sciences humaines".
L'invention scientifique. Thémata et interprétation
Presses Universitaires de France Couverture souple Paris 1982
Très bon Fort in-8. 469 pages. Coll. "Croisées".
Science and the Modern Mind. A Symposium.
Boston, Beacon Press, (1958). 8vo. Orig. full cloth in orig. dust jacket. Internally mint. IX,(3),110 pp.
First edition. Published in cooperation with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
L'imagination scientifique. Traduit de l'anglais par Jean-François Roberts.
Paris, Gallimard, NRF (Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines), 1981, in 8° broché, 489 pages.
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"L'invention scientifique; thémata et interprétation. Collection : Croisées."
Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, PUF, 1982. 14 x 22, 469 pp., broché, couverture à rabats, bon état (couverture légèrement défraîchie).
Traduit de l'anglais par Paul Scheurer.
