Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science: Homage to Alexandre Koyr?1892-1964 (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Chapter 1. Alexandre Koyre: His Secret Charm.- Chapter 2. Homage to Koyre: Space as Paradigmatic Example of "The Unity of Human Thought".- Chapter 3. The Philosophers and the Machine": Philosophy of Mathematics and History of Science in Alexandre Koyre.- Chapter 4. Koyre and Galileo: the Myth of the Leaning Tower's Scientific Experiment.- Chapter 5. On Galileo's Platonism, Again.- Chapter 6. Alexandre Koyre and Blaise Pascal.- Chapter 7. Koyre Revolutionary Role in the Historiography of Science.- Chapter 8. Alexandre Koyre's Essential Features of the Scientific Revolution.- Chapter 9. Koyre, Cassirer and History of Science.- Chapter 10. Alexandre Koyre and the History of Science as a Species of the History of Philosophy: The Cases of Galileo and Descartes .- Chapter 11. ls Descartes' Theological Voluntarism Compatible with His Philosophy?.- Chapter 12. The Posterity of Koyre's Galileo Studies.- Chapter 13. Alexandre Koyre, Kepler's Reader without Prejudices. Harmony of the World, Music of the Heavens.- Chapter 14. The History between Koyre and Husserl.- Chapter 15. Kuhn, Sarton and the History of Science.- Chapter 16. On the Conceptualization of Force in Johannes Kepler's Corpus: an Interplay between Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics.- Chapter 17. Koyre versus Olschki-Zilsel.- Chapter 18. Alexandre Koyre, History and Actuality.- Chapter 19. The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Following Koyre: the Young Tom Kuhn, 'Critical Historian', on Tradition Dynamics and Big History.- Chapter 20. Alexandre Koyre and the Traditional Interpretation of the Anthropological Consequences of the Copernican Revolution.- Chatper 21. Koyre as a Historian of Religion and the New French Phenomenology.