Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein by Gerald Holton

Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein

Gerald Holton

504 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced

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The highly acclaimed first edition of this major work convincingly established Gerald Holton's analysis of the ways scientific ideas evolve. His concept of "themata," induced from case studies with special attention to the work of Einstein, has be...

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