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This classic in the philosophy of science describes and analyzes the profound change from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanitys less central place in the universe. It offers a fascinating analysis of the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Gilbert, Boyle and Newton.

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Table of Contents BIBLIOGRAPHY The secondary literature on the men - photo 1
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

The secondary literature on the men treated in the foregoing chapters is so extensive that this bibliography makes no claim to completeness. Its purpose is merely to include those works which have been found helpful in pursuing this study, thus furnishing a guide to supplementary literature for those interested in the metaphysical aspect of their work.

I. Works dealing with the whole, or a considerable part of the field

E. F. APELT, Die Epochen der Geschichte der Menscheit, 2 vols., Jena, 1845.
Theorie der Induktion, Leipzig, 1854.

J. J. BAUMANN, Die Lehren von Raum, Zeit, und Mathematik in der neuren Philosophie, Berlin, 1868.

ARTHUR BERRY, A Short History of Astronomy, London, 1910.

THOMAS BIRCH, History of the Royal Society of London, 4 vols., London, 1756.

M. CANTOR, Vorlesungen ber Geschichte der Mathematik, 4 vols., Leipzig, 19008.

E. CASSIRER, Das Erkenntniss-problem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit, 3 vols., Berlin, 190620.

J. P. DAMIRON, Mmoires pour servir lhistoire de philosophie au dix-huitime sicle, Paris, 1858, ff. Essai sur lhistoire de la philosophie en France au dix-septime sicle, Bruxelles, 1832.

P. DUHEM, Lvolution des theories physiques, Louvain, 1896.

E. DHRING, Kritische Geschichte der allgemeinen Prinzipien der Mechanik, Leipzig, 1887.

JOS. EPSTEIN, Die logischen Prinzipien der Zeitmessung, Berlin, 1887.

L. FEUERBACH, Geschichte der neueren Philosophie von Bacon von Verulam bis Benedikt Spinoza (in his Werke, Stuttgart, 190311)

E. GRIMM, Zur Geschichte des Erkenntniss-problems von Bacon zu Hume, Leipzig, 1890.

J. HEINRICI, Die Erforschung der Schwere durch Galilei, Huyghens, Newton, als rationelle Kinematik und Dynamik historisch-didaktisch dargestellt, Heidelberg, 1885.

H. HFFDING, A History of Modern Philosophy (Meyer translation), London and New York, 1900.

F. LANGE, Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart, Iserlohn, 1887. English translation by Thomas, 3 vols., London, 18902.

L. LANGE, Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Bewegungs-begriffes und ihr voraussichtliches Endergebniss, Leipzig, 1886.

K. LASSWITZ, Geschichte der Atomistik vom Mittelalter bis Newton, Hamburg, 1890.

OLIVER LODGE, Pioneers of Science, London, 1913.

L. MABILLEAU, Histoire de la philosophie atomistique, Paris, 1895.

E. MACH, The Science of Mechanics (McCormack translation of his Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwickelung historisch-kritisch dargestellt) 4th ed., Chicago and London, 1919.

F. A. MLLER, Das Problem der Continuitt in der Mathematik und Mechanik, Marburg, 1886.

P. NATORP, Die logischen Grundlagen der exakten Wissenschaften, Leipzig, 1910.

CARL NEUMANN, Uber die Prinzipien der Galilei-Newton-schen Theorie, Halle, 1870.

F. PAPILLON, Histoire de la philosophie moderne dans ses rapports avec le dveloppement des sciences de la nature, 2 vols., Paris, 1876.

J. c. POGGENDORFF, Geschichte der Physik, Leipzig, 1879.

s. J. RIGAUD, Correspondence of Eminent Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century, Oxford, 1841.

P. VOLKMANN, Einfhrung in das Studium der theoretischen Physik, Leipzig, 1900.
Erkenntnisstheoretische Grundzge der Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig, 1896.

H. WEISSENBORN, Die Prinzipien der hheren Analysis, als historisch-kritischer Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Halle, 1856.

w. WHEWELL, History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time, new and revised edition, 3 vols., London, 1847. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, London, 1840.

w. WINDELBAND, History of Philosophy (Tufts translation), New York, 1907.

II . Works dealing primarily with the material of the separate chapters
CHAPTER II. SOURCES

NICHOLAUS COPERNICUS, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Nremberg, 1543; German translation, Thorn, 1879.

NICOLAI COPERNICI, De hypothesibus motuum coelestium a se constitutis Commentariolus, ed. A. Lindhagen, Stockholm, 1881.

Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Ch. Frisch, 8 vols., Frankfurt and Erlangen, 1858, ff.

SECONDARY

W. W. R. BALL, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, 4th ed., London, 1912.

M. CARRIRE, Die philosophische Weltanschauung der Reformationszeit in ihrer Beziehung zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1887.

M. CURTZE, Uber eine neue Copernicus-handschrift, Knigsberg, 1873.

J. L. E. DREYER, Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler, Cambridge, 1919. Tycho Brahe, a Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century, Edinburgh, 1890.

P. DUHEM, Essai sur la notion de thorie physique de Platon Galile, Paris, 1908.
Etudes sur Leonard de Vinci, Paris, 190613.
Le systme du monde: histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon Copernic, 5 vols., Paris, 1913, ff.

R. EUCKEN, Johann Kepler (Philosophische Monatshefte), 1878.
Nicholas von Kuss (Philosophische Monatshefte, 1878.)

c. FLAMMARION, Vie de Copernic et histoire de la decouverte du systme du monde, Paris, 1872.

CH. FRISCH, Vita Joannis Kepleri (in his edition of the latters Opera Omnia, Vol. VIII, pp. 6681028).

E. GOLDBECK, Keplers Lehre von der Gravitation, Halle, 1896.

J. HASNER, Tycho Brahe und J. Kepler in Prag; eine Studie, Prag, 1872.

C. LIBRI, Histoire des sciences mathmatiques en Italie depuis la renaissance des lettres, 2nd ed., Halle, 1865, 4 vols.

K. PRANTL, Galilei und Kepler als Logiker (Sitzungsbericht der Mncher Akademie, 1875).
Leonardo da Vinci als Philosoph (same, 1885).

L. PROWE, Nicholaus Copernicus, 3 vols., Berlin, 1883, ff.

H. RASHDALL, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, 2 vols., Oxford, 1895.

T. A. RIXNER and T. SIBER, Leben und Lehrmeinungen berhmter Physiker am Ende des sechszehnten und am Anfange des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts, 3 vols., Sulzbach, 18209.

J. SCHMIDT, Keplers Erkenntniss-und Methodenlehre, Jena, 1903.

F. SIGWART, Kleine Schriften, 2 vols., Freiburg, 1889. (Vol. I contains anniversary address on Kepler.)

CHAS. SINGER, Studies in the History and Method of Science, Vol. II, Oxford, 1921. Includes:

ROBERT STEELE, Roger Bacon and the State of Science in the Thirteenth Century, p. 121, ff.;

H. HOPSTOCK, Leonardo as Anatomist, p. 151, ff.;

J. J. FAHIE, The Scientific Works of Galileo, p. 206, ff.;

J. L. E. DREYER, Medival Astronomy, p. 102, ff.

K. F. STAUDLIN, Uber Johann Keplers Theologie und Religion (Beitrge zur Philosophie der Religion, 17979, vol. I, pp. 172241).

DOROTHY STIMSON, The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe, New York, 1917.

H. O. TAYLOR, The Mediaeval Mind, 2nd ed., 2 vols. London, 1914.
Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century, 2 vols., London, 1920.

CHAPTER III. SOURCES

GALILEO GALILEI, Dialogues Concerning the Two Great Systems of the World. Translated by Thomas Salusbury, and included in his Mathematical Collections and Translations, Vol. I, London, 1661.

GALILEO GALILEI, Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences, Crew and de Salvio translation, New York, 1914.

GALILEO GALILEI, Opere Complete di G. G., 15 vols., Firenze, 1842, ff.

GALILEO GALILEI, Letter to the Grand Duchess Cristina, 1615. (In Salusbury, Vol. I.)

GALILEO GALILEI, Le Opere: Edit. nazionale, vols. IXX, Firenze, 18901909. (This is the best and most complete edition. That referred to in the text is the usually more accessible edition of 1842, ff.)

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