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16Marco Beretta, The Enlightenment of Matter. The Definition of Chemistry from Agricola to Lavoisier. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1993. Pp. xvi + 396, illus. ISBN 0-88135-152-0. $49.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1): 109-111. 1995.
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16Introducing quantum theoryTotem Books. 1996.Quantum theory is one of science's most thrilling, challenging and even mysterious areas. Scientists such as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger uncovered bizarre paradoxes in the early 20th century that seemed to destroy the fundamental assumptions of 'classical physics' - the basic laws we are taught in school. Notoriously difficult, quantum theory is nonetheless an amazing and inspiring intellectual adventure, explained here with patience, wit and clarity.
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13Un colloque sur l’influence de Jean Scot ErigèneBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 27 161-162. 1985.
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13Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age (review)Annals of Science 67 (4): 581-583. 2010.No abstract
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12Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise. Frederic Lawrence HolmesIsis 82 (2): 382-382. 1991.
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10Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth : the Aquinas Lectures at Maynooth, 1996-2001Four Courts PressLtd. 2002.Seven lectures graced the second in the annual series at the Irish college devoted to the 13th-century saint and theologian. The topics include friendship and love, the desire for happiness as a way to God, the separated soul's natural knowledge, and truth as a good. Appended is a guide to consultat.
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10Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise by Frederic Lawrence Holmes (review)Isis 82 382-382. 1991.
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10Electricity, Knowledge, and the Nature of Progress in Priestley's ThoughtBritish Journal for the History of Science 12 (1): 1-30. 1979.The appearance of Priestley's electrical work as a brief and irrelevant prelude to his more substantial chemical enquiries may explain why it has been strangely overlooked by historians of science. It was only fairly recently that Sir Philip Hartog sought to rectify this situation with the affirmation that ‘Priestley's electrical work offers the key to Priestley's scientific mind’. Attacking traditional chemical historiography for tracing Priestley's opposition to Lavoisier's theory to a deficie…Read more
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10The Correspondence between Grosseteste’s Quotations from the Latin Translation of the Physics and the Greek TextBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 21 52-62. 1979.
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10Questions of authenticity and chronology concerning works attributed to Robert Grosseteste and edited 1940-1980Les Etudes Philosophiques 24 (n/a): 69. 1982.
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9Robert Grosseteste on the Ten CommandmentsRecherches de Theologie Et Philosophie Medievales 58 (n/a): 167-205. 1991.
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9Robert Grosseteste: Recent and Forthcoming Editions and StudiesBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 35 (n/a): 121-129. 1993.
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8Les Quaestiones in librum de causis attribuées à Henri de Gand (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 24 262-263. 1975.
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8Finalité et intentionnalité: doctrine thomiste et perspectives modernes : actes du colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve et Louvain, 21-23 mai 1990 (edited book, review)Peeters Publishers. 1992.Peeters 1992
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8The Metaphysical Thought of Godfrey of Fontaines (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 31 425-426. 1986.
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8Anima una et cor unum - Friendship and Spiritual Unity in AugustineRecherches de Philosophie 53 40-92. 1986.
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