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Rise of Modern Science (Edinburgh and London: Scottish Academic
Press, 1972), esp. pp. 14-16.
24. WHITEHEAD, Op. cit., p. 54.
25. The famous text about nature being written in mathematical
signs is to be fo und in 11 Saggiatore. See also The Dialogue Concerning
the Two Chief World Systems, 2nd rev. ed. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1967).
26. At least it was triumphant in the academies created in France,
Prussia, and Russia by absolute sovereigns. In The Scientist's
Role in Society (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Foundations of Modern
Sociology Series, Prentice-Hall, 1971), Ben David emphasized
the distinction between physicists of these countries, dedicated
to physics as a glamorous and purely theoretical science, and
the English physicists immerged in a wealth of empirical and
technical problems. Ben David proposed a connection between
the fascination for a theoretical science and the relegation far
from political power of the social class supporting the "scientific
movement. "
27. In his biography of dlembert-Jean d'Alembert, Science and
Enlightenment (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970)-Thomas
Hankins emphasized how closed and small was the first true
scientific community, in the modern sense of the term, namely,
that of the eighteenth-century physicists and mathematicians,
and how intimate were their relations with. the absolute sovereigns.
28. EINSTEIN, Op. cit., pp. 225-26.
29. E. MACH, "The Economical Nature of Physical Inquiry, " Popular
Scientific Lectures (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company,
1895), pp. 197-98.
30. J. DONNE, An Anatomy of the World wherein . .. the frailty and
the decay of the whole world is represented (London, catalog of
the British Museum, 161 1).
Chapter 2
I. On this point, see T. HANKINS, "The Reception of Newton's
Second Law of Motion in the Eighteenth Century, " Archives Internationales
d'Histoire des Sciences, Vol. XX (1967), pp. 42-
65, and I. B. CoHEN, "Newton's Second Law and the Concept
of Force in the Principia," The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac
Newton, Tricentennial Celebration, The Texas Quarterly,
Vol. X, No. 3 (1967), pp. 25-157. The four following paragraphs
rest, for what concerns atomism and the conservation theories,