History of science

The industrial revolution stands out as a key event not simply in British history, but in world history, ushering in as it did a new era of sustained economic prosperity.

Gosta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur.

Our current concept of matter, one of scientific research's greatest successes, represents a long journey, from questions posed during the birth of philosophy in Ancient Greece to recent advances in physics and chemistry, including Quantum Physics.

The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a progressive Aristotelianism in fact provided the foundation for Galileo's scientific discoveries.

By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being.

"e;A well-written, compendious, and deeply researched history of psychoanalysis from the 1880s until World War II"e; (The Journal of Modern History).

Tsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia.

One of the most popular and controversial scientists of the 20th century, Hans Eysenck had a major impact on psychology and society.

A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE.

This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities.

Eine kurze Biografie des antiken Naturforschers Plinius des Älteren anlässlich der Wiederkehr seines Todes beim Ausbruch des Vesuv am 25.

A contemporary of Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton, and close friend of all but Newton, Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of the founders of the early scientific revolution, faded into almost complete obscurity after his death and remained there for nearly three centuries.

Since antiquity, technology has tried to either control or imitate nature.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike.

This book for the first time chronicles the development of particle accelerators from the invention of electrostatic accelerators, linear accelerators, and the cyclotron to the colliders of today.

Complexity has become a central topic in certain sectors of theoretical physics and chemistry (for example, in connection with nonlinearity and deterministic chaos).

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England.

Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.

During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one.

A total eclipse of the Sun is the most awesome sight in the heavens.

This book sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Imperial family of Japan: For three generations, members of the family have devoted themselves to biological research.

This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro's 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day.

This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition.

Die Disziplingeschichte der Kreolistik ist noch lange nicht vollständig aufgearbeitet.

This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

Dieter Senghaas, professor emeritus of international relations, University of Bremen, was one of most innovative contemporary German social scientists, with major contributions on peace and development research and on music and peace.

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee.

Interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of contemporary knowledge production.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?

No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community.

The main purpose of this book is to introduce black rice to a wider circle of people.

The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.

This book focuses on health humanities in application.

An innovative integrated approach to classical physics and the beginnings of quantum physics through a sequence of historical case studies.

Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities.

A Behind-the-Scenes Look At NASA's incredible Journey to the MoonSpace journalist and insider Nancy Atkinson weaves together the riveting story of NASA's mission to complete "e;the greatest adventure on which humankind ever embarked.

Drawing upon the English literary tradition for new perspectives and paradigms, this collection presents a broad range of theoretical and historical approaches to ecocriticism.

When and where did science begin?

In 1919 the Prussian Ministry of Science, Arts and Culture opened a dossier on "e;Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community.

Mixing scientific, historic and socio-economic vision, this unique book complements two previously published volumes on the history of continuum mechanics from this distinguished author.

'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia.

This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.

A wondrous story of scientific endeavorprobing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath.

This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal philosophy as it was then termed.