Singer, Charles

Singer, Charles, et al., eds. (1954-1984). A History of Technology. Oxford, Eng. Clarendon Press. 

Singer, Charles. Daniel of Morley an English philosopher of the Xllth century. Isis 3. 

Singer, Charles. The earliest chemical industry an essay in the historical relations of economics and technology illustrated from the alum trade., 1948. 

Singer, Charles, Eric John Holmyard, Alfred Rupert Hall and Trevor I. Williams. A history of technology. Oxford , 1956. 

Singer, Charles. Studies in the History and Method of Science. Volume I. At the Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1917. 

Singer, Charles Hohnvard, E. J. Hall, A. R. Williams, Trevor I. A History... 

Thorndike, Lynn. "The attitude of Francis Bacon and Descartes towards magic and occult science." In Science medicine and history essays on the evolution of scientific thought and medical practice written in honour of Charles Singer, ed. E. Ashworth Underwood, 451- 454. Oxford OUP, 1953. 

Steele, Robert. "Roger Bacon and the state of science in the thirteenth century." In Studies in the history and method of science, ed. Charles J. Singer, ii, 121-150. Oxford Clarendon P, 1921. 

Holmyard, Eric John. "Alchemical equipment." In A history of technology. Volume II, eds. Charles Singer, Eric John Holmyard and Trevor L. Williams, 731-752. London OUP, 1956. 

Charles Singer, in the first two editions of his A History of Biology (1931, 1930) claimed that no molecule could possibly do all the things that genes are supposed to do. In the third edition published in 1959, this claim was dropped. What had happened in the interim Philistines who did not have a sufficiently sophisticated view of natural phenomena have done the impossible - once again. Philistines do not always succeed, most fail, but it seems that only Philistines ever succeed. Only Philistines are... 

Figure 8.1 The four main categories for ethical theories dealing with questions regarding human-animal and human-nature relationships anthropocentric, sentientistic, biocentric and ecocentric (Leopold 1949, Singer 1981). The idea of an evolution of ethics, however, has been discussed by several philosophers before Leopold and Singer such as Albert Schweizer, Thomas Huxley and Peter Kropotkin as well as by Charles Darwin).

Principe, L.M., Weeks, A. (1989). Jacob Boehme s Divine Substance Saliter its Nature, Origin, and Relationship to Seventeenth-Century Scientific Theories. Bn/AA journal for the History of Science, 22, 53-61. See also Taylor, F.S. (1953). The Idea of the Quintessence. In E. A. Underwood (Ed.), Science, Medicine and History. Essays on the Evolution of Scientific Thought and Medical Practice written in honour of Charles Singer (vol. i, pp. 247-265). London. Note that Taylor s quintessence is something between matter and spirit, while Boerhaave s fire is corporeal. Osier, M.J. (Ed.). (1991). Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquility. Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought. Cambridge. 

Taylor, F.S. (1953). The Idea of the Quintessence. In E.A. Underwood (Ed.), Science, Medicine and History. Essays on the Evolution of Scientific Thought and Medical Practice written in honour of Charles Singer (vol.i, pp. 247-265). London. 

Charles R J Singer BSc, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPath Consultant Haematologist, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK... 

For a discussion of Sarton s pedagogical vision for the history of science see A.-K. Mayer, When Things Don t Talk Knowledge and Belief in the Inter-War Humanism of Charles Singer , British Journal for the History of Science, 38 (2005), pp. 325-47, pp. 330-1. 

HAROLD A. SINGER, S. THOMAS ABRAHAM, and CHARLES M. SCHWORER... 

A. E. was a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctrol Fellow, and J. K., a Damon Runyon Fund Postdoctoral Fellow. We thank S. J. Singer, in whose laboratory this work was performed, for his advice and support. This research was supported by US. Public Health Service Grant No. GM1597 (to S. J. Singer). We also thank Dr.. Charles Perrin for helpful discussions. 

Concerning the pharmacological use of the aqua ardens see Palmer (cit. above n. 11) and bibliography cited by him, p. 115 F. Sherwood Taylor, The Idea of the Quintessence in Science, Medicine and History, Charles Singer Presentation Volume, ed. E.A. Underwood (Oxford, 1953), pp. 241-65 R. Halleux, Les ouvrages alchimiques (cit. above n. 5), pp. 246-50 C.A. Wilson, Philosophers, losis and Water of Life , Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section), 19 (1984), pp. 86-93. 

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