Science without limits : toward a theory of interaction between nature and knowledge / James S. Perl...
Science without limits : toward a theory of interaction between nature and knowledge / James S. Perlman.
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Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1995.
Date
1995.
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T0390834
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English
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358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Pt. 1. The Dawn of Science. 1. Introduction: Science as a Human Enterprise. 2. Ancient Science: Survival Techniques and Learning by Experience. 3. Natural Causes: Ancient Atoms, Elements, and Transformations of Matter. 4. Early Observation, Reference Frames, and Relativity of Motion -- Pt. 2. Scienc...
13. Problems of Objectivity: The Subjective, and Selective, and the Encapsulating. 14. Expanding the Cocoon. 15. Explanation and Interaction: The Expanding Partial Pictures of Seneca, Roger Bacon, and Isaac Newton on the Rainbow. 16. Measurement as Interaction: Space, Time, and Einstein. 17. The Str...
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Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1995.
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New York (State)
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1995.
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Science without limits : toward a theory of interaction between nature and knowledge / James S. Perlman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from N502.8/27.
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T0390834
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74VMl8AGvXAg
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0879759623 (hc : alk. paper)
9780879759629 (hc : alk. paper)
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502.8
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991003437889702626