The Sociological Roots of Science

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 935-949

  Zilsel, Edgar ^a  

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EID: 84992885922     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631200030006006     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Cf. Edgar Zilsel, ‘The Genesis of the Concept of Physical Law’, Philosophical Review, LI (1942)
2. [republished in Edgar Zilsel, The Social Origins of Modern Science, edited by Diederick Raven, Wolfgang Krohn and Robert S. Cohen, with a foreword by Joseph Needham, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 200 (Dordrecht & Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000), 96–112. We will hereafter refer to this volume as SOMS].
3. Cf. M. Winternitz, Geschichte der indischen Literatur (Leipzig, 1920), III, 509 ff., 536 ff.
4. On the prestige of the literati, artists, inventors, and discoverers cf. Edgar Zilsel, Die Entstehung des Geniebegriffes: Ein Beitrag zur Ideengeschichte der Antike und des Fruehkapitalismus (Tübingen, 1926), 130–75, and 176 ff. (statistical evidence).
5. Cf. the statistical data on population and number of schoolchildren in the chronicle of Giovanni Villani (X, 162 [14th century, Florence]) and J.W. Adamson, ‘The Extent of Literacy in England in the 15th and 16th Centuries’, Library, X (4th ser., 1930), 167.
6. Cf. Edgar Zilsel, ‘The Origin of William Gilbert's Scientific Method’, Journal of the History of Ideas, II (1941), 1–32 [SOMS, 71–95].
7. Novum Organum I, aph. 120.
8. [Recently translated into English as The Origins of Statics: The Sources of Physical Theory, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 123 (Dordrecht; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991).]