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Jean Antoine Nollet and experimental natural philosophy in eighteenth-century France /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)
Nollet saw his work as part of a collective process that pre-supposed standardization of instruments and procedures. He thus rejected anything that was controversial or that could not be settled in a cabinet de physique. ...
A reexamination of the inception, development, and Newtonianism of David Hartley's Observations on man.
(1981)
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers extended the methods and concepts of contemporary natural philosophy to their study of mind. One of the earliest to accept the Newtonian conception of man as analogous ...
Staudinger, Carothers, and the emergence of macromolecular chemistry /
(1983)
Conceptually and epistemologically, Staudinger's macromolecular theory was rooted in the traditional organic-structural approach to polymers, while his opponents vigorously supported the aggregate theory of colloid-polymers, ...