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| Editorial Preface | ||
| A Personal Appreciation. Erwin Nick Hiebert. The Wisconsin Years | ||
| A Personal Appreciation. Erwin Nick Hiebert. The Harvard Years | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. I | Natural Theology, Natural Philosophy and the Certainty of Mathematics | |
| Devils' Hells and Astronomers' Heavens: Religion, Method, and Popular Culture in Speculations about Life on Comets | 3 | |
| The Doctrine of Chances without Chance: Determinism, Mathematical Probability, and Quantification in the Seventeenth Century | 27 | |
| God, Truth, and Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century England | 51 | |
| Pt. II | Problems of Contingency, Coherence, and Truth | |
| Theologians, Science, and Theories of Truth in Nineteenth-Century Germany | 81 | |
| Equivalence, Pragmatic Platonism, and Discovery of the Calculus | 97 | |
| Pt. III | The Aims and Foundations of Physical Science: The Cases of Electrical Physics, Psychophysics, and Physical Chemistry | |
| The Training of German Research Physicist Heinrich Hertz | 119 | |
| From Psychophysics to Phenomenalism: Mach and Hering on Color Vision | 147 | |
| A Usable Past: Creating Disciplinary Space for Physical Chemistry | 175 | |
| Pt. IV | Explanation and Discovery: The Claims of Chemistry, Physics, and Fortran | |
| Physics and Chemistry: Commensurate or Incommensurate Sciences? | 205 | |
| FORTRAN, Physics, and Human Nature | 225 | |
| Appendix I. Erwin N. Hiebert's Doctoral Students and Directed Dissertations | 261 | |
| Appendix II. Erwin N. Hiebert. Selected List of Publications | 263 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 267 | |
| Name Index | 271 |
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Jean Claude Fortier
reviewed The Invention Of Physical Science on August 04, 2014 The Invention Of Physical Science
A poor textbook, but not without its uses.
I found it sloppy, occasionally repetitive, and in bad need of editing. While I recognize these as potentially innocuous errors, I feel like they reflect a larger trend of hasty conclusions and one-sided portrayals of certain historical movements. This is especially evident in Ruether's first chapter on Jesus and the writings of Paul.
As an absolute beginner to the field of feminist theology I found Ruether's writing style remarkably unclear, but there were some nice moments in the book that made it worth fighting through. The author is at her best in chapters 2 and 3 on the patristic and medieval eras, and this book was worth the purchase price for those sections alone. She engages nicely with the ideas of the era and expertly sets up primary-source quotations by explaining the larger philosophy at work.
The second half of the book is largely given over to discussion of liberation theology and its feminist proponents. I suspect this heavy emphasis reflects Ruether's personal interests rather than the actual state of the field, and I was disappointed to find no space granted for a discussion of feminist readings of religious texts or questions of gender theory.
Worth reading, helpfully traces some historical movements, but overall kind of a disappointment.
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