Author: Karl Pearson
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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The Trinity: a nineteenth century passion-play [by K. Pearson. In verse].
Author: Karl Pearson
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Pages : 220
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Karl Pearson
Author: Theodore M. Porter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400835704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds new light on the inner life of science. Theodore Porter's intensely personal portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile reason with enthusiasm and to achieve the impersonal perspective of science without sacrificing complex individuality. Even as he longed to experience nature directly and intimately, he identified science with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter finds a turning point in Pearson's career, where his humanistic interests gave way to statistical ones, in his Grammar of Science (1892), in which he attempted to establish scientific method as the moral educational basis for a refashioned culture. In this original and engaging book, a leading historian of modern science investigates the interior experience of one man's scientific life while placing it in a rich tapestry of social, political, and intellectual movements.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400835704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds new light on the inner life of science. Theodore Porter's intensely personal portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile reason with enthusiasm and to achieve the impersonal perspective of science without sacrificing complex individuality. Even as he longed to experience nature directly and intimately, he identified science with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter finds a turning point in Pearson's career, where his humanistic interests gave way to statistical ones, in his Grammar of Science (1892), in which he attempted to establish scientific method as the moral educational basis for a refashioned culture. In this original and engaging book, a leading historian of modern science investigates the interior experience of one man's scientific life while placing it in a rich tapestry of social, political, and intellectual movements.
Autobiography
Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Dying to Know
Author: George Levine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226475363
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"Dying to Know is the work of a distinguished scholar, at the peak of his powers, who is intimately familiar with his materials, and whose knowledge of Victorian fiction and scientific thought is remarkable. This elegant and evocative look at the move toward objectivity first pioneered by Descartes sheds new light on some old and still perplexing problems in modern science." Bernard Lightman, York University, Canada In Dying to Know, eminent critic George Levine makes a landmark contribution to the history and theory of scientific knowledge. This long-awaited book explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. How, asks Levine, did this idea of selfless knowledge come to be established and moralized in the nineteenth century? Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sense that they could imagine achieving pure knowledge only in a condition where the body ceases to make its claims: to achieve enlightenment, virtue, and salvation, one must die. Dying to Know is ultimately a study of this moral ideal of epistemology. But it is also something much more: a spirited defense of the difficult pursuit of objectivity, the ethical significance of sacrifice, and the importance of finding a shareable form of knowledge.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226475363
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"Dying to Know is the work of a distinguished scholar, at the peak of his powers, who is intimately familiar with his materials, and whose knowledge of Victorian fiction and scientific thought is remarkable. This elegant and evocative look at the move toward objectivity first pioneered by Descartes sheds new light on some old and still perplexing problems in modern science." Bernard Lightman, York University, Canada In Dying to Know, eminent critic George Levine makes a landmark contribution to the history and theory of scientific knowledge. This long-awaited book explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. How, asks Levine, did this idea of selfless knowledge come to be established and moralized in the nineteenth century? Levine shows that for nineteenth-century scientists, novelists, poets, and philosophers, access to the truth depended on conditions of such profound self-abnegation that pursuit of it might be taken as tantamount to the pursuit of death. The Victorians, he argues, were dying to know in the sense that they could imagine achieving pure knowledge only in a condition where the body ceases to make its claims: to achieve enlightenment, virtue, and salvation, one must die. Dying to Know is ultimately a study of this moral ideal of epistemology. But it is also something much more: a spirited defense of the difficult pursuit of objectivity, the ethical significance of sacrifice, and the importance of finding a shareable form of knowledge.
Autobiography
Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108050611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
This 1904 autobiography describes the life of an American proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, social reform and women's suffrage.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108050611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
This 1904 autobiography describes the life of an American proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, social reform and women's suffrage.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 1580
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Pages : 1580
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Autobiography, Memories and Experiences
Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Catalogue of the Books and Papers for the Most Part Relating to the University, Town, and County of Cambridge
Author: Cambridge University Library
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Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : Cambridge (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Index ...
Author: Benjamin Franklin Underwood
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Catalogue of the Books and Papers for the Most Part Relating to Cambridge
Author: A. T. Bartholomew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108015921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This alphabetical catalogue documents John Willis Clark's collection of over ten thousand Cambridge-related books, pamphlets and pieces of print.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108015921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This alphabetical catalogue documents John Willis Clark's collection of over ten thousand Cambridge-related books, pamphlets and pieces of print.