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Levensbericht E.J. Dijksterhuis, In: Jaarboek, 1965-1966, Amsterdam, Pp
Huygens Institute - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Citation: R. Hooykaas, Levensbericht E.J. Dijksterhuis, in: Jaarboek, 1965-1966, Amsterdam, pp. 387-396 This PDF was made on 24 September 2010, from the 'Digital Library' of the Dutch History of Science Web Center (www.dwc.knaw.nl) > 'Digital Library > Proceedings of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), http://www.digitallibrary.nl' - 1 - HERDENKING VAN EDUARD JAN DIJKSTERHUIS (28 oktober 1892 - 18 mei 1965) Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis werd op 28 oktober 1892 te Tilburg geboren. Hij doorliep daar de Rijks Hogere Burgerschool, waarvan zijn vader directeur was, en legde daarna het aanvullende staats examen gymnasium B af. Na enige aarzeling tussen de klassieke letteren en de wiskunde koos hij de laatste als zijn universitaire studie. Op 1 juni 1918 promoveerde hij op een proefschrift "Een bijdrage tot de kennis van het platte schroevenvlak". Na een korte periode van werkzaamheid als leraar in Groningen (1915-'18) werd hij in 1919 leraar in de wiskunde en de natuur kunde aan de Rijks Hogere Burgerschool Willem II te Tilburg, een betrekking, die hij tot 1953 vervulde. Het bleek al spoedig, dat Dijksterhuis in wezen niet gekozen had tussen zijn belangstelling in de letteren en die in de wiskunde, maar beiden trouw zou blijven. In 1924 verscheen van zijn hand "Val en Worp. Een bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der mechanica van Aristoteles tot Newton". Zoals in de voorrede dankbaar erkend wordt, was hij tot deze studie vooral geïnspireerd door het werk van de Franse fysicus en wetenschapshistoricus Pierre Duhem. Wat hij - ook als jonge man zeer bescheiden - niet vermeldt, is, dat hij bewust een correctie op Duhem's methode aangebracht had. -
In Europe Van Dongen, J
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) In Europe van Dongen, J. DOI 10.1007/s00016-020-00252-2 Publication date 2020 Document Version Final published version Published in Physics in Perspective License CC BY Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): van Dongen, J. (2020). In Europe. Physics in Perspective, 22(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-020-00252-2 General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:25 Sep 2021 Phys. Perspect. 22 (2020) 3–25 Ó 2020 The Author(s). This article is an open access publication 1422-6944/20/010003-23 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-020-00252-2 Physics in Perspective In Europe Jeroen van Dongen* As the History of Science Society, which is based in America, holds its annual meeting in Utrecht, one of the key academic centers on the European continent, one may surmise that the field has returned home. -
De Geschiedenis Van De Scheikunde in Nederland. Deel 1
De geschiedenis van de scheikunde in Nederland. Deel 1 Van alchemie tot chemie en chemische industrie rond 1900 H.A.M. Snelders bron H.A.M. Snelders, De geschiedenis van de scheikunde in Nederland. Deel 1: Van alchemie tot chemie en chemische industrie rond 1900. Delftse Universitaire Pers, Delft 1993 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/snel016gesc01_01/colofon.htm © 2008 dbnl / H.A.M. Snelders II ‘De scheider’, van Jan Luyken (Het menselijk bedrijf Amsterdam, 1694) H.A.M. Snelders, De geschiedenis van de scheikunde in Nederland. Deel 1 vii Ten geleide We schrijven 1992. In onze complexe samenleving staat de scheikunde er niet goed op. ‘Het vak scheikunde is uit de gratie’ schrijft een bekende journalist. ‘Om eerlijk te zijn heb ik in het verleden wel eens verteld dat ik Frans studeerde’ zegt een scheikundig student, om vragen te voorkomen. In 1993 bestaat de Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging, KNCV, negentig jaar. Er zijn in Nederland sinds het vak tot ontwikkeling kwam zeer belangrijke prestaties op scheikundig gebied verricht. Er zijn perioden geweest waarin er voor deze prestaties een brede waardering bestond, dit was misschien het sterkst het geval in de jaren vijftig-zestig van onze eeuw. In de tegenwoordige tijd bestaat ten aanzien van de scheikunde en al het chemisch handelen veelal een sfeer van wantrouwen. In brede kring wordt gedacht dat de scheikunde, de scheikundigen, veroorzakers van, vooral milieugerelateerde, problemen zijn. Er wordt daarbij vergeten dat dezelfde mensen die ervan worden verdacht de veroorzakers van deze problemen te zijn in hoge mate er toe bijdragen dat (milieu)problemen kunnen worden voorkómen, opgespoord en opgelost. -
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A Vital Ratio nalist Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem Edited by Francois Delaporte Translated by Arthur Goldhammer with an introducti.on by Paul Rabinow and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges ZONE BOOKS • NEW YORK 2000 111m[m�11�11i�illlli�111 � 39001105503513 � © 1994 Urzone, Inc. Q ZONE BOOKS \15 611 Broadway, Suite 608 �c?.> New York, NY 10011 4 2000 All rights reserved. First Paperback Ed�tion No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopy ing, microfilming, recording or otherwise (except for that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press) without written permission from the Publisher. Sources for the excerpts are listed on pp. 480-81 Printed in the United States of America Distributed by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England Library of Congre�s Cataloging-in-Publication Data Canguilhem, Georges, 1904-1995 A vital rationalist : selected writings from Georges Canguilhem / edited by Frans:ois Delaporte; translated by Arthur Goldhammer with an introduction by Paul Rabinow and a critical bibliography by Camille Limoges. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-942299-73-6 i. Science-History. 2. Science-Philosophy. 1. Delaporte, Frans:ois, 1941- • 11. Title. Ql25 .q4 1993 500-dc20 93-8613 CIP ,••'......... -0. ··<'-le1sltesi� ,.11'll•H., �>· (/J' .....• '•, ./ .� ........ .. .., ...."·.I\,/? '"";., \. .... -
Concepts of the ´Scientific Revolution´: an Analysis of the Historiographical Appraisal of the Traditional Claims of Science
UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS Department of Philosophy Concepts of the ´Scientific Revolution´: An analysis of the historiographical appraisal of the traditional claims of science Doctoral thesis presented by: John Onyekachi Nnaji Official Doctoral Programmme in Philosophy Palma, June 2013. UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS Department of Philosophy Concepts of the ´Scientific Revolution´: An analysis of the historiographical appraisal of the traditional claims of science Doctoral thesis John Onyekachi Nnaji Doctorand Prof. Dr. José Luis Luján López Thesis Director The ´Scientific Revolution´ is probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science (Osler, 2000, 3) TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgment INTRODUCTION AND THESIS SUMMARY: 1.1 PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION ………………………………………………….…….1 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ……………………………………………...........4 1.3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND HYPOTHESIS ..……………….……..….......6 1.4 OBJECTIVES …………………………………………………………………..…........8 1.5 METHODOLOGY ……………………………………………………………..…....…9 1.6 EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION .……………………………………………......11 SECTION I HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: CHAPTER ONE 1.1 HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION ……………....….13 1.1.1 THE MEANING OF REVOLUTION IN ANCIENT GREEK ……………….....….....14 1.1.2 NOTIONS OF REVOLUTION IN THE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CONTEXT………………………………………………………………………...…....15 1.1.3 REVOLUTION AS A CONCEPT OF ´ABRUPT CHANGE´ IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD …………………………………………………..…….17 1.2 SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AS A DUAL SENSE ´PHILOSOPHICALLY -
Clio's Stiefkind
Clio's stiefkind E.J. Dijksterhuis samengesteld door K. van Berkel bron E.J. Dijksterhuis, Clio's stiefkind (samenstelling K. van Berkel). Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 1990 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/dijk027clio01/colofon.htm © 2007 dbnl / K. van Berkel en erven E.J. Dijksterhuis 7 Verantwoording Onder de titel Clio's stiefkind is hier een aantal artikelen bijeengebracht van de Nederlandse wetenschapshistoricus E.J. Dijksterhuis (1892-1965). Het doel van deze uitgave is tweeledig: enerzijds wil zij een kennismaking bieden met het werk van een belangrijke Nederlandse geleerde, die ten onrechte alleen bekend is door zijn meesterwerk De mechanisering van het wereldbeeld, anderzijds wil zij de aandacht vestigen op de rol die de bij velen nog altijd ondergewaardeerde wetenschapsgeschiedenis kan spelen bij het overbruggen van de kloof tussen de literaire en de technisch-natuurwetenschappelijke cultuur. De wens om met behulp van de wetenschapsgeschiedenis de kloof tussen de twee culturen te overbruggen is bepalend geweest voor leven en werk van Dijksterhuis en loopt als een rode draad door de hier opgenomen essays heen. Ook in de vorm van de essays komt dat streven naar harmonie tussen de twee culturen tot uiting: zonder dat ze onmiddellijk tot ‘de’ literatuur gerekend kunnen worden vertonen ze onmiskenbaar literaire kwaliteiten. Ook dat is een reden aandacht te geven aan het werk van Dijksterhuis. Om dat werk voor de hedendaagse lezer toegankelijk te maken, waren enkele bewerkingen nodig. De eenvoudigste betrof de spelling. Dijksterhuis was behoudend als het ging om het hervormen van de spelling, maar er is van hem geen uitlating bekend waaruit zou kunnen blijken dat hij meende dat vereenvoudiging van de spelling schadelijk zou kunnen zijn voor datgene wat hij wilde zeggen. -
A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 1960–1969
A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 1960{1969 Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB 155 S 1400 E RM 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Internet) WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ 12 September 2018 Version 0.05 Title word cross-reference +2000 [570]. −2500 [570]. 1 [722, 880, 711]. 1165 [1340]. 1305 [702]. 1519 [368]. 1540 [138]. 1548 [1087]. 1564 [753]. 1618 [292]. 1627 [336]. 1630 [729]. 1641 [542]. 1675 [161]. 1687 [162, 481]. 1692 [372]. 1694 [513]. 16th [763]. 16th-Century [763]. 1711 [499]. 1711-ig [499]. 1720 [755]. 1757 [409]. 1763 [334]. 1764 [929]. 1766 [763]. 1767 [160]. 1772 [1290, 411]. 1790 [439]. 1794 [854]. 1795 [140]. 18.Jahrhundert [32]. 1800 [652, 1311, 953]. 1803 [216]. 1805 [629]. 1809 [682]. 1820 [158, 505]. 1828 [1346]. 1830 [1353]. 1838 [1355]. 1840 [959, 274]. 1848 [1088]. 1850 [1149]. 1851 [932]. 1854 [764]. 1855 [717]. 1858 [687]. 1859 [51]. 1860 [1266, 221, 610, 1312]. 1865 [376]. 1866 [736]. 1870 [75]. 1873 [74]. 1880 [202, 760]. 1885 [848]. 1891 [1193]. 1894 [1315]. 1896 [653]. 1900 [776, 995, 971, 476, 1140, 95]. 1902 [1181]. 1904 [1326]. 1907 [485]. 1912 [885]. 1913 [1313]. 1915 [552]. 1918 [886]. 1919 [276]. 1920 [1018]. 1925 [103]. 1926 [1021]. 1927 [1161]. 1930 [844]. 1932 1 2 [340, 1246, 685]. 1935 [1056]. 1937 [305]. 1940 [721]. 1944-ig [719]. 1945 [689]. 1950 [1360, 1317, 1247]. -
Historiography of Physics the Roles of Mathematics in the History Of
Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science (8): 6-25 ISSN 2526-2270 Belo Horizonte – MG / Brazil © The Authors 2020 – This is an open access journal Special Issue – Historiography of Physics The Roles of Mathematics in the History of Science: The Mathematization Thesis Ciro Thadeu Tomazella Ferreira1 Cibelle Celestino Silva2 Abstract: In this paper, we present an analysis of the evolution of the history of science as a discipline focusing on the role of the mathematization of nature as a historiographical perspective. Our study is centered in the mathematization thesis, which considers the rise of a mathematical approach of nature in the 17th century as being the most relevant event for scientific development. We begin discussing Edmund Husserl whose work, despite being mainly philosophical, is relevant for having affected the emergence of the narrative of the mathematization of nature and due to its influence on Alexandre Koyré. Next, we explore Koyré, Dijksterhuis, and Burtt’s works, the historians from the 20th century responsible for the elaboration of the main narratives about the Scientific Revolution that put the mathematization of science as the protagonist of the new science. Then, we examine the 6 reframing of the mathematization thesis with the narrative of two traditions developed by Thomas S. Kuhn and Richard Westfall, in which the mathematization of nature shares space with other developments taken as equally relevant. We conclude presenting contemporary critical perspectives on the mathematization thesis and its capacity for synthesizing scientific development. Keywords: Historiography; Scientific Revolution; mathematization of physics; Koyré; Dijksterhuis; Burtt Received: 15 April 2020. Reviewed: 29 May 2020. -
EJ Dijksterhuis
DUTCH CLASSICS AD QUANTA INTELLIGENDA CONDITA (DESIGNED FOR GRASPING QUANTITIES) E.J. Dijksterhuis [Translator's note: The address Ad quanta intelligenda condila, delivered by Dijk sterhuis in 1955, is written in Dutch, whatever its title might otherwise suggest. It is held by many to be the finest piece Dijksterhuis ever wrote - which is no mean statement to make about the author of The Mechanization of the World Picture, of Archimedes, of Simon Stevin, and of many other books and articles, most of which have remained locked inside the Dutch language. In the address Dijksterhuis takes up in concentrated form a key topic that runs all across his work in the history of science: the mathematization of nature; what precisely is meant by that expression, and how the essence of the process can be grasped through the study of its manifestations in the past. Dijksterhuis seeks to penetrate to the core of the issue by asking how mathematics and science can be connected at all - how is it that a description of the empirical world can have mathematical precision as one key attribute. This is not the place to celebrate Dijksterhuis' unique achievement in the history of science or to sketch his life and works. Professor K. van Berkel is currently preparing a biography (in Dutch), and I have a section on Dijksterhuis' conception of the Scientific Revolution in my forthcoming book 77ie Banquet of Truth. So let me just give the briefest of outlines. Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis was born in 1892. He studied science and mathematics, which disciplines he taught to high school students until 1953. -
Science As Social Existence Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientifi C Knowledge
Science as Social Existence Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientifi c Knowledge JEFF KOCHAN To access digital resources including: blog posts videos online appendices and to purchase copies of this book in: hardback paperback ebook editions Go to: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/670 Open Book Publishers is a non-profit independent initiative. We rely on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality academic works. Science as Social Existence Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge Jeff Kochan https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2017 Jeff Kochan This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Jeff Kochan, Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0129 In order to access detailed and updated information on the license, please visit https:// www.openbookpublishers.com/product/670#copyright Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/ All external links were active at the time of publication unless otherwise stated and have been archived via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/web Digital material and resources associated with this volume are available at https://www. -
Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Scientific Revolution
MARCO SGARBI RENAISSANCE ARISTOTELIANISM AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION ESTRATTO da PHYSIS Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza 2017/1-2 ~ a. 52 Le radici filosofiche della psicologia e i primi psicologi italiani A cura di Guido Cimino e Piero Di Giovanni PHYSIS RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA Vol. LII Nuova Serie 2017 LEO S. OLSCHKI EDITORE FIRENZE PHYSIS RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI STORIA DELLA SCIENZA pubblicata dalla domus galilæana di pisa in collaborazione con società italiana di storia della scienza seminario di storia della scienza dell’università di bari DIREZIONE E REDAZIONE (EDITORS) Direttore responsabile (Senior Editor): Vincenzo Cappelletti. Direttore (Editor): Guido Cimino. Comitato direttivo (Editorial Board): Nino Dazzi, Mauro Di Giandomenico, Paolo Fre- guglia, Carlo Maccagni, Giuliano Pancaldi, Raffaella Simili. Responsabile delle recensioni (Book Reviews Editor): Antonino Trizzino. Redazione (Editorial Office): Silvia Degni, Barbara Olson, Antonino Trizzino. CONSIGLIO SCIENTIFICO (ADVISORY EDITORS) Evandro Agazzi, Giulio Barsanti, Enrico Berti, Jed Buchwald, Paolo Casini, Catherine Chevalley, Salvo D’Agostino, Jean Dhombres, Francois Duchesneau, Maria Rosaria Egidi, Dietrich von Engelhardt, Paolo Galluzzi, Enrico Giusti, Robert Halleux, John L. Heilbron, Gerald Holton, Eberhard Knobloch, Sandra Linguerri, Geoffrey Lloyd, Renato Mazzolini, Luigi Pepe, Marcello Pera, William R. Shea, Maurizio Torrini. Direzione: Domus Galilaeana - via S. Maria 26 - 56100 Pisa - Tel. +39.050.23726 Redazione: Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione - Università di Roma «La Sapienza» - Via dei Marsi, 78 - 00185 Roma - Italy e-mail: [email protected] Ogni articolo è sottoposto alla valutazione anonima di due esperti. Each article is submitted to a double-blind scholarly peer review. SOMMARIO Le radici filosofiche della psicologia e i primi psicologi italiani M.A.