An Idiot's Fugitive Essays On Science. Methods, Criticism, Training, Circumstances [DJVU]


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  • Toc: Content: I. Aims, Programs, and Methods.- 1. Experience, Theory, and Experiment (1955).- 2. The Field Viewpoint in Classical Physics.- 3. Modern Continuum Mechanics in Adolescence (1962).- 4. Purpose, Method, and Program of Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics.- 5. War, Socialism, and Quantum Mechanics.- 6. The Tradition of Elasticity.- 7. Statistical Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics (1973, 1979).- 8. Our Debt to the French Tradition: "Catastrophes" and Our Search for Structure Today (1978, 1981).- 9. Draw from the Model and Imitate the Antique (1979).- 10. The Role of Mathematics in Science as Exemplified by the Work of the Bernoullis and Euler (1979, 1981).- 11. Conceptual Analysis.- II. Criticism: Selected Reviews.- A. Writing and Texts for Living Science.- 12. A Comment on Scientific Writing (1954).- 13. Goldstein's Classical Mechanics (1950).- 14. Murnaghan's Finite Deformation of an Elastic Solid (1952).- 15. Novozhilov's Foundations of the Nonlinear Theory of Elasticity (1953).- B. The light of History Upon the Present.- 16. Critical Problems in the History of Science (1961).- 17. Dugas' Histoire de la Mecanique (1953).- 18. Jammer's Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics (1963).- 19. Clagett's The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (1961).- 20. Stevin's Works on Mechanics (1957).- 21. Dugas' La Mecanique au XVIIeSiecle (1956).- 22. Costabel's Leibniz and Dynamics (1975).- 23. John Bernoulli and L'Hopital (1958).- 24. The Works of James Bernoulli (1973).- 25. Daniel Bernoulli's Hydrodynamica (1960).- 26. Rouse & Ince's History of Hydraulics (1959).- 27. Hankins' Jean d'Alembert (1971).- 28. The Mathematical and Physical Papers of G. G. Stokes (1966).- 29. Gillmor's Coulomb (1973).- 30. Timoshenko's History of Strength of Materials (1953).- 31. Szabo's Geschichte der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer wichtigsten Anwendungen (1979).- III. Biography and Circumstances.- 32. Genius Conquers and Despises the Establishment: Newton.- a. Newton's Letters (1960, 1962).- b. Newton's Mathematical Works (1973, 1977).- 33. Genius Turns the Establishment to Profit: Euler.- a. Euler's Letters (1960/1977).- b. Euler's Early Manuscripts on Mechanics (1967).- c. A Sample: Ten out of Seventy-three (1958/1981).- d. Leonard Euler, Supreme Geometer (1972, 1982).- 34. The Establishment Stifles Genius: Herapath and Waterston (1968, 1982).- 35. Genius and the Establish

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