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This category is for articles on history books with scientific discoveries as a topic. Pages in category "History books about scientific discoveries" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by the philosopher Karl Popper.Popper rewrote his book in English from the 1934 (imprint '1935') German original, titled Logik der Forschung.
A recurring theme of the book is the relation between science and poetry in the Romantic era. John Keats , in “ On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer ”, compares his first encounter with Homer’s poetry to Herschel’s discovery of Uranus : “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into his ken.”
The Scientific Revolution occurs in Europe around this period, greatly accelerating the progress of science and contributing to the rationalization of the natural sciences. 16th century: Gerolamo Cardano solves the general cubic equation (by reducing them to the case with zero quadratic term).
The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration, science, medicine, mathematics, and more-theoretical ones, such as time, evolution, plate tectonics, and relativity.
In 1974, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was ranked as the second most frequently used book in political science courses focused on scope and methods. [44] In particular, Kuhn's theory has been used by political scientists to critique behavioralism, which claims that accurate political statements must be both testable and falsifiable. [45]