Charles Coulston Gillispie is Dayton-Stockton Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, where he founded the Program in History of Science in 1960. He is the author or numerous books, including
The Edge of Objectivity (Princeton). He is the editor of the sixteen-volume
Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Robert Fox is Professor of History of Science at the University of Oxford.
Ivor Grattan-Guinness is Professor of the History of Mathmatics and Logic at Middlesex Polytechnic University in London.
6 Електронні книги від Charles Coulston Gillispie
Charles Coulston Gillispie: Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the p …
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Charles Coulston Gillispie: Science and Polity in France
By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersec …
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Charles Coulston Gillispie: The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783-1784
This vividly illustrated book introduces the reader to the brothers Montgolfier, who launched the first hotair balloon in Annonay, France on 4 June 1783. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton L …
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Charles Coulston Gillispie: Science and Polity in France
From the 1770s through the 1820s the French scientific community predominated in the world to a degree that no other scientific establishment did in any period prior to the Second World War. In his c …
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Charles Coulston Gillispie: The Edge of Objectivity
Originally published in 1960, The Edge of Objectivity helped to establish the history of science as a full-fledged academic discipline. In the mid-1950s, a young professor at Princeton named Charles …
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Charles Coulston Gillispie & Raffaele Pisano: Lazare and Sadi Carnot
Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi …
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