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14Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge: A Historical Outline of Aims and TensionsRoutledge Studies in Cultural History. 2015.This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and those of science, in the hope of contributing to improving the contemporary university. A helpful tool in analyzing these intellectual and social tensions is Karl Popper's philosophy of science demarcating science and its social context. Popper defines a society that encourages criticism as "open," and a…Read more
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13RezensionenReviewsNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 8 (1): 48-64. 2000.
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33Agassi’s Contribution to the History of SciencePhilosophy of the Social Sciences 52 (6): 372-379. 2022.Agassi has undertaken the challenge of performing a microanalysis of the works of several scientists, pointing out areas of complexity, raising questions, and criticizing current histories of science. Among the topics he has tackled are Bacon’s philosophy of science, Boyle’s ideology, the rationale of Galileo’s work, Newton’s declared methodology—influential, but misleading—, Faraday’s emancipatory enterprise; and the roots of the quantum revolution. He attempts to reconstruct what scientists di…Read more
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20Peano's axioms in their historical contextArchive for History of Exact Sciences 48 (3-4): 201-342. 1994.
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31Interview: Joseph AgassiTransversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science 1. 2016.Joseph Agassi is an Israeli scholar born in Jerusalem on May 7, 1927. He has many books and articles published contributing to the fields of logic, scientific method, foundations of sciences, epistemology and, most importantly for this Journal, in the historiography of science. He studied with Karl Popper, who was definitely his biggest influence. He taught around the world in different universities. He currently lives in Herzliya, Israel. For his important contribution to the historiography of …Read more
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25Galileo and the Medici: Post-Renaissance Patronage or Post-Modern HistoriographyTransversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science 2 226. 2017.At the beginning of the eighties of the last century, the issue of “patronage” began to arouse scholarly interest and gained importance. Galileo became a test case: his importance, and the importance of patronage – and that of the Medici in particular – go beyond the historical junction of the scientific revolution and have corollaries in the more general attitude to science and knowledge. This case furnished a new line of research for the historical sociology of science. As far as Galileo is co…Read more
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514Torricelli's correspondence on ballisticsAnnals of Science 40 (5): 489-499. 1983.Torricelli elaborated the theory of ballistics as part of Galileo's theory of motion. In 1647 he had an interesting exchange of letters with G. B. Renieri, from Genoa, who complained that some experiments he had made with guns contradicted Galileo's theory. The correspondence discloses some fundamental issues of the Seventeenth century Scientific Revolution, the main one being to what extent mathematics can be applied to physics. Torricelli's view on this issue is ambivalent. He defends Galileo'…Read more
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1753Des nobel au Vatican: La fondation de l'Academie pontificale des Sciences. Regis LadousIsis 88 (1): 169-170. 1997.
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2051Galileo, Viviani and the tower of PisaStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 20 (4): 435-451. 1989.
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15Der Aufbau einer Datenbank für die Geschichte der europäischen Mathematik im Mittelalter und der RenaissanceBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 11 (4): 256-260. 1988.
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2069Zwischen Trient und Vatikanum II: Der Fall GalileiBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 26 (2): 129-136. 2003.The Council of Trent and the Second Vatican Council are significant both to Lutheranism and Science. The first inaugurated the Counter Reformation and formulated a decree related to biblical hermeneutics later used as a basis for Galileo's condemnation. The second modernized the Roman Catholic Church and formulated the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes used by Pope John Paul II as a basis for the reconsideration of the condemnation. In both cases, however, the Church of Rome may not have fol…Read more
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253Applying Popperian DidacticsIn Zuzana Parusniková & Robert S. Cohen (eds.), Rethinking Popper, Springer. pp. 389--395. 2009.
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38Joseph Agassi. The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle. xvii + 315 pp., bibl., index. Dordrecht: Springer, 2015. $159 (review)Isis 107 (1): 167-168. 2016.