{"product_id":"fact-faith-and-fiction-in-r-hooykaas-9780792357742","title":"Fact, Faith and Fiction in the Development of Science: The Gifford Lectures Given in the University of St Andrews 1976","description":"In this posthumous book, the late Professor R. Hooykaas (1906-1994) conveys a lifetime of historical thought about modes of scientific advance over the centuries. In what variety of ways has the human mind, with all its subjectivity and its capacity for self-deception, but also its piercing gifts of discovery, managed to come to terms with  the whimsical tricks of nature'? Central to this erudite, penetrating, and widely ranging study is Hooykaas's distinction between \u003cem\u003efacts\u003c\/em\u003e (given by nature yet entirely subject to our mode of interpreting them), \u003cem\u003efaith\u003c\/em\u003e (broad conceptions like the idea of order, of simplicity, or of harmony), and \u003cem\u003efictions\u003c\/em\u003e in the sense of those daring intellectual tools, such as theories and hypotheses and models, which reflect the scientist's creative imagination. Case studies drawn from the history of all branches of science (including chemistry and the earth sciences) and from Antiquity to the present day, serve to widen and to deepen the understanding of every reader (whether a historian of science or not) with a desire to learn more about the realities of the scientific pursuit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. Hooykaas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0792357744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780792357742\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d","brand":"R. Hooykaas","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47244008390911,"sku":"9780792357742","price":169.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a4b97bb-64de-4026-ba49-be39418c5e46.jpg?v=1758134713","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fact-faith-and-fiction-in-r-hooykaas-9780792357742","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}