Styles of Knowing: A New History of Science from Ancient Times to the Present

Contents

v Preface vii 1. Introduction: The Six Styles of Knowing 1 2. The Deductive Style of Science 12 3. The Deductive Style in a Christian Context 27 4. From Scholar to Virtuoso: The Renaissance Origins of the Experimental Style 46 5. The Experimental Style II: The Skeptics and Their Opponents 72 6. The Experimental Style III: Alchemy and the New Sciences 92 7. The Hypothetical Style: Analogies between Nature and Technology 134 8. The Taxonomic Style 165 9. Statistical Analysis as a Style of Science 196 10. The Evolutionary Style 221 11. Science in the Twentieth Century 252 Notes 277 Bibliography 329 Index 355´ CONTENTS ...