Mary P Nye

Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

The publication of Personal Knowledge in 1958 shook the science world, as Michael Polanyi took aim at the long-standing ideals of rigid empiricism and rule-bound logic. Today, Personal Knowledge remains one of the most significant philosophy of science books of the twentieth century, bringing the cr...

Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

This is a lively and compact biography of P. M. S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, mem...

The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strateg...

Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science

In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does not rely on empiricism a...

Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome (OSU Press Horning Visiting Scholars Publication)

Classical authors used both prose and poetry to explore and explain the natural world. In Aetna and the Moon, Liba Taub examines the variety of ways in which ancient Greeks and Romans conveyed scientific information. Oregon State University Press is proud to present this inaugural volume in the Horn...

A to XP: The Agile ABC Book

A to XP is a light-hearted approach to Agile Adoption and Transformation. With 26 whimsical color illustrations, A to XP defines close to 100 Agile terms common in the Agile world. Use it as a great conversation started for your team, as a primer for your manager, or as a checklist list for yourself.

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry: Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen...

Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics, 1800-1940

Today's vast multinational scientific monoliths bear little resemblance to the modest laboratories of the early nineteenth century. Yet early in the nineteenth century--when heat and electricity were still counted among the elements--changes were already under way that would revolutionize chemistry...

Question of the Atom from the Karlsruhe Congress to the First Solvary Conference 1860-1911

Science in the Provinces: Scientific Communities and Provincial Leadership in France, 1860-1930

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry: Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

The Cambridge History of Science: The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Before Big Science: The Pursuit of Modern Chemistry and Physics 1800-1940

Mary Jo Nye

Mary Jo Nye is an American historian of science and retired faculty member of the History Department at Oregon State University.