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发表于2024-11-25
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The Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to meet on Sunday mornings to talk about the state of science in Britain and the world at large. Inspired by the great 17th century scientific reformer and political figure Francis Bacon—another former student of Cambridge—the Philosophical Breakfast Club plotted to bring about a new scientific revolution. And to a remarkable extent, they succeeded, even in ways they never intended.
Historian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyder exposes the political passions, religious impulses, friendships, rivalries, and love of knowledge—and power—that drove these extraordinary men. Whewell (who not only invented the word “scientist,” but also founded the fields of crystallography, mathematical economics, and the science of tides), Babbage (a mathematical genius who invented the modern computer), Herschel (who mapped the skies of the Southern Hemisphere and contributed to the invention of photography), and Jones (a curate who shaped the science of economics) were at the vanguard of the modernization of science.
This absorbing narrative of people, science and ideas chronicles the intellectual revolution inaugurated by these men, one that continues to mold our understanding of the world around us and of our place within it. Drawing upon the voluminous correspondence between the four men over the fifty years of their work, Laura J. Snyder shows how friendship worked to spur the men on to greater accomplishments, and how it enabled them to transform science and help create the modern world.
Laura J. Snyder,纽约圣约翰大学科学史学家,维多利亚时期科学与文化学者。剑桥大学克莱尔学堂终身会员、Fulbright Scholar项目学者、曾任International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science主席。为WSJ等媒体供稿。
科学家「scientist」一词是怎么诞生的?第一台照相机是怎么诞生的?天王星和海王星是怎么发现的?计算机是怎么诞生的,它诞生的历史与著名诗人拜伦之女有什么联系?现代科学诞生之前的这段历史,读来竟然让人心潮澎湃,可谓惊心动魄
评分Historical gossips, which might serve as a good assemblage of references. Including topics: How Englishmen learned mathematics. How Hegel was detested in Britain from the dawn of time. The intellectual culture at 19th century Cambridge. Leibniz's plan of sending a calculator to 康熙. And the idols of Charles Darwin.
评分Historical gossips, which might serve as a good assemblage of references. Including topics: How Englishmen learned mathematics. How Hegel was detested in Britain from the dawn of time. The intellectual culture at 19th century Cambridge. Leibniz's plan of sending a calculator to 康熙. And the idols of Charles Darwin.
评分科学家「scientist」一词是怎么诞生的?第一台照相机是怎么诞生的?天王星和海王星是怎么发现的?计算机是怎么诞生的,它诞生的历史与著名诗人拜伦之女有什么联系?现代科学诞生之前的这段历史,读来竟然让人心潮澎湃,可谓惊心动魄
评分盛产科学巨人的时代。一个启发:任何创作和研究,都需要志同道合者。无论是科学还是文学艺术,都是一样。Robert Bly在接受《巴黎评论》访谈的时候就曾说过:写作不是「一个人」的事情,即便是诗人,也不该孤独地写作。
在离世之前,哲学早餐俱乐部的成员们终于看到了自己在学生时代的计划开花结果。他们成功地将科学置于一个完全不同的道路上,他们的成功甚至超过了他们最乐观的梦想。他们重新设置了科学的轨道,也就是参与塑造了现代世界,在这个世界里,科学是主演。之前,提到自然哲学家,人...
评分1833年,当剑桥大学认为一个整天挖化石或用电做实验的人不配“自然哲学家”的名号时,物理学家威廉•休厄尔创造了一个新词汇指称他们,这就是scientist(科学家)。早在1812年,当威廉还是剑桥大学学生时,他便与三位同学(查尔斯•巴贝奇、约翰•赫歇尔、理查德•琼斯...
评分在离世之前,哲学早餐俱乐部的成员们终于看到了自己在学生时代的计划开花结果。他们成功地将科学置于一个完全不同的道路上,他们的成功甚至超过了他们最乐观的梦想。他们重新设置了科学的轨道,也就是参与塑造了现代世界,在这个世界里,科学是主演。之前,提到自然哲学家,人...
评分1833年,当剑桥大学认为一个整天挖化石或用电做实验的人不配“自然哲学家”的名号时,物理学家威廉•休厄尔创造了一个新词汇指称他们,这就是scientist(科学家)。早在1812年,当威廉还是剑桥大学学生时,他便与三位同学(查尔斯•巴贝奇、约翰•赫歇尔、理查德•琼斯...
评分1833年,当剑桥大学认为一个整天挖化石或用电做实验的人不配“自然哲学家”的名号时,物理学家威廉•休厄尔创造了一个新词汇指称他们,这就是scientist(科学家)。早在1812年,当威廉还是剑桥大学学生时,他便与三位同学(查尔斯•巴贝奇、约翰•赫歇尔、理查德•琼斯...
The Philosophical Breakfast Club pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024