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The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form

Norma E. Emerton

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#1635 of 3,809 books · #173 in Science & Technology

Won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science (1985).

This is the first systematic account of an idea that was born with the concept of science itself in ancient Greece and that has been vital to its evolution ever since. The book traces the development of the concept of form—one of the most important and persistent elements in natural philosophy—from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to the beginnings of the nineteenth century. Norma Emerton depicts the transformation of the form concept as it was transferred from a philosophical to a scientific context, and she explains how it was reinterpreted and used especially in particle theory, chemical doctrine, and crystallography in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Throughout she emphasizes the philosophical, linguistic, and theological context of scientific theories, supporting her argument with evidence from a wide variety of primary sources, some of them little known, and many of them specially translated by the author.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-13
9780801415838
Topics
History of scienceNatural philosophyParticle theory and chemistry

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