Includes biographies of the most influential scientists and thinkers, from Aristotle and Galileo to Isaac Newton and Antoine Lavoisier. (view table of contents)

Offers profiles of hundreds of scientists and describes their contributions to our knowledge

Product Description: Philosophy and science, once connected, are now seen as different disciplines. While scientists continue to probe deeper into nature, philosophers seem merely to pursue their own obscure disputes. Such a view is shown to be both naive and ill-informed in this book that argues that science is not a monolithic and stable structure of legend and that philosophy of science calls many such assumptions into question...read more

Product Description: Book by Gjertsen, Derek