Isaac Newton's influence on Adam Smith's natural laws in economics

NS Hetherington - Journal of the History of Ideas, 1983 - JSTOR
Recent writers have also pointed to similarities between Ne Smith. One noted that the idea
of creating a social science by applying the methods of natural science to the study of man …

[BOOK][B] Cosmology: Historical, literary, philosophical, religous and scientific perspectives

NS Hetherington - 2023 - books.google.com
This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It
presents articles on traditional Native American and Chinese cosmologies and traces the …

[BOOK][B] Encyclopedia of cosmology (Routledge revivals): Historical, philosophical, and scientific foundations of modern cosmology

NS Hetherington - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical
assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the …

[HTML][HTML] Sirius B and the gravitational redshift-an historical review

NS Hetherington - … Society, Quarterly Journal, vol. 21, Sept …, 1980 - adsabs.harvard.edu
… redshift of about 20 km s', in contrast to little more than 6/b km for the … The differences
of displacements ranged from 33 to -2 km s'. After applying several somewhat … except for …

Industrialization and revolution in Iran: Forced progress or unmet expectation?

NS Hetherington - Middle East Journal, 1982 - JSTOR
One suggested cause of the revolution in Iran is that the modernization program imposed by
the Shah was too rapid for the people of Iran to accept. Implicit in this explanation is a belief …

Percival Lowell: Professional Scientist or Interloper?

NS Hetherington - Journal of the History of Ideas, 1981 - JSTOR
learned of Schiaparelli's failing eyesight and determine Italian's planetary observations. 6
To say that Lowell used support his conclusions, uncritically welcoming Schiapare covery of …

Philosophical values and observation in Edwin Hubble's choice of a model of the universe

NS Hetherington - Historical studies in the physical sciences, 1982 - JSTOR
Cosmology, for centuries consisting of speculation based on a minimum of observational
evidence and a maximum of philosophical predilection, became in the twentieth century an …

Just how objective is science?

NS Hetherington - Nature, 1983 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The supposed objectivity of science has come into question. Recent historical studies reveal
instances in which scientific knowledge has not been strictly controlled by observation …

[HTML][HTML] Adrian van Maanen and Internal Motions in Spiral Nebulae: a Historical Review

NS Hetherington - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical …, 1972 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Norriss S.Hetherington … (s), and Wolf found about ioo km s-' of rotation not far from the …

[BOOK][B] Planetary Motions: a historical perspective

NS Hetherington - 2006 - books.google.com
Students in an introductory physics class learn a variety of different, and seemingly unconnected,
concepts. Gravity, the laws of motion, forces and fields, the mathematical nature of the …