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Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan’
- J. Mcguire, P. Rattansi
- HistoryNotes and Records of the Royal Society of London
- 1 December 1966
Newtonian scholars have long been aware of a set of draft Scholia to Propositions IV to IX of Book III of the Principia (2). These were composed in the 1690’s, as part of an unimplemented plan for a…
The intellectual origins of the Royal Society
- P. Rattansi
- HistoryNotes and Records of the Royal Society of London
- 1 December 1968
A few decades ago historical studies of the background to the English scientific movement of the seventeenth century tended to involve discussions of the influence of utilitarian motives in drawing…
The Helmontian-Galenist Controversy in Restoration England
- P. Rattansi
- Economics
- 1 February 1964
A Note on Hayek’s Analysis of Scientism
- K. Milford, P. Rattansi
- Economics
- 1997
This chapter discusses two points in connection with Hayek’s work on scientism. The first concerns his methodological and the second his historical analysis of that position. Both issues are related…
Science and Society 1600-1900
- P. Rattansi, P. Mathias
- History
- 30 June 1972
1. The social interpretation of science in the seventeenth century P. M. Rattansi 2. Science, technology and Utopia in the seventeenth century A. Rupert Hall 3. Who unbound Prometheus? Science and…
Facts and fables
- P. Rattansi
- PhysicsNature
- 1 May 1993
Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought.By A. Rupert Hall. Blackwell: 1992. Pp. 468. £19.95, $29.95.
Hartlib and his Circle
- P. Rattansi
- EducationNature
- 1 July 1970
Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of LearningEdited by Charles Webster. (Cambridge Texts and Studies in the History of Education.) Pp. x + 220. (Cambridge University Press: London, February 1970.)…
Lost Royal Society documents on ‘alkahest’ (universal solvent) rediscovered
- A. Alfonso-Goldfarb, M. H. Ferraz, P. Rattansi
- HistoryNotes and Records of the Royal Society
- 20 December 2010
Although historians have recently shown a great deal of interest in the early-modern search for the liquor alkahest or universal solvent, early Royal Society discussions of that legendary substance…
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514–1564 . By C. D. O'Malley. Pp. xvi + 480, with 64 plates. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; Cambridge University Press, 1964. £4 net.
- P. Rattansi
- SociologyThe British Journal for the History of Science
- 1 June 1965
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