书目名称 | From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept | 编辑 | Giora Hon,Bernard R. Goldstein | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/349/348965/348965.mp4 | 概述 | Symmetry is a key concept in modern science.Its history has been distorted for various reasons.A critical account of the history of the concept sheds light on the dynamics of scientific change and the | 丛书名称 | Archimedes | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact exists. The demand is as easy to make as it is impossible to satisfy. But the true test of an hypothesis, if it cannot be shown to con?ict with known truths, is the number of facts that it correlates and explains. Francis M. Cornford [1914] 1934, 220. It was in the autumn of 1997 that the research project leading to this publication began. One of us [GH], while a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh), gave a talk entitled, “Proportions and Identity: The Aesthetic Aspect of Symmetry”. The presentation focused on a confusion s- rounding the concept of symmetry: it exhibits unity, yet it is often claimed to reveal a form of beauty, namely, harmony, which requires a variety of elements. In the audience was the co-author of this book [BRG] who responded with enthusiasm, seeking to extend the discussion of this issue to historical sources in earlier periods. A preliminary search of the literature persuaded us that the history of symmetry was rich in possibilities | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | 关键词 | History of Mathematics; Immanuel Kant; Legendre; Moderne; Perrault; Scientific change; Symmetry; Vitruvius; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8448-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7884-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-8448-5Series ISSN 1385-0180 Series E-ISSN 2215-0064 | issn_series | 1385-0180 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 |
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