Ten Chapter textbook as it appeared on previous platform
Author Archives: Dr. John A. Schuster
Scientific Revolution: Intro to HPS
As previously posted on old platform, but with two additions: the English version of the Preface written for the Mandarin edition of this book, published in Shanghai 2013; and, a two page Guide to the seven Sections into which the book is divided.
Open Access Textbooks
Schuster The Scientific Revolution: Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science has now been reinstated to the site, along with Schuster Introduction to the History and Social Studies of Science. I may be reached at john.schuster@sydney.edu.au
Welcome to Relaunched Site
The site ‘Descartes-agonistes’ has moved. All previous articles are present, along with a few new items such as: my recent review of Alan Chalmers’ One Hundred Years of Pressure, and my invited ‘Focus Section’ piece in Isis June 2019 on explanation in the history of science. Contact: john.schuster@sydney.edu.au
Schuster on Beeckman in Focus Section Isis 2019
Invited for Focus Section in Isis on Case Studies of Explanation in the History of Science. J. A. Schuster, ‘Pitfalls and Opportunities of Contextual Explanation: The Case of Isaac Beeckman’s Invention of the Mechanical Philosophy’, Isis 110(2), 308-311.
Schuster. The Real Descartes Stands Up, Nacht van Descartes, University of Utrecht, October 2008
Invited public talk, concluding the afternoon session of the ‘Nacht van Descartes’ of the University of Utrecht, Descartes Centre for the History of the Natural Sciences and Humanities, 2 October 2008. Full title Descartes agonistes: The ‘Real’ Descartes Stands Up–How the agendas, identities, rebellions, successes, failures and delusions of ‘youth’ (1618-33) generated the historians’ mature Descartes.
Schuster Organizing the Experimental Life at the Early Royal Society, Ghent 2008
This paper invited by the Centre for the History of Science, University of Ghent, is based in part on work originally pursued with Dr Alan B. H. Taylor. It examines how knowledge claims were manufactured and communicated at the early Royal Society. We examine the Society’s organisationally sedimented patterns of decision-making and action-taking. This cuts across …
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Essay review of Hal Cook, The Young Descartes (2019)
J.A. Schuster [2019] ‘The Young René Descartes—Lawyer, Military Engineer, Courtier, Diplomat…and, we might add, Ambitious ‘Savant’, essay review of Harold Cook, The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor and War. Chicago, 2018, Annals of Science, 76: 87-95.
Schuster on Koyre and the Younger Kuhn (2018)
‘The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Following Koyré: The Younger Tom Kuhn, “Critical Historian,” on Tradition Dynamics and Big History’, in R. Pisano et al (eds.) Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1964–2014. Springer, Dordrecht, 2018 pp.391-420.
Schuster 2018 Review of Alan Chalmers 100 Years of Pressure
John Schuster (2018) Review of Alan Chalmers, One Hundred Years of Pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017 Annals of Science 78: 145-148. On the issues raised here about the rise of experimental sciences and roles of natural philosophy in the Scientific Revolution, see also Schuster and Watchirs 1990 in research section, as …
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