History of science

The history of science and technology in India is both long and rich with many contributions to science and technology.

Industrial methods, and industrially produced instruments, reagents and living organisms are central to research activities today.

This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory, Europe's highest lab (3580 meters a.

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century.

The International Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms is the main activity of the Permanent Commission (PC) for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science (HMM) of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM).

In einer quellenbasierten Studie gibt die Wissenschaftshistorikerin und Physikerin An Rettig einen lebendigen Einblick in das Streben von Heisenberg und Pauli nach einer einheitlichen Quantenfeldtheorie – von den Anfängen am Rande der Solvay-Konferenz 1927 bis zur Veröffentlichung eines gemeinsamen Ansatzes und Paulis Tod 1958.

The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals.

Daytime Television Programming (1991) provides a practical understanding of daytime television formats, viewer demographics, and programming strategy.

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In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

An utterly absorbing account of humans, computers, and how much they differ Dame Diane Coyle, author of Cogs and MonstersWhat does Artificial Intelligence mean for our identity?

The story of Napoleon's invasion of the Nile Valley, the scholars and scientists who tagged along, and the birth of Egyptology: "e;A fascinating read.

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective.

Planning Armageddon provides the first detailed account of Britain's Command, Control, Intelligence and Communications infrastructure.

A History of Beer and Brewing provides a comprehensive account of the history of beer.

Covering the last five hundred years of global history, The Environment in World History examines the processes that have transformed the Earth and put growing pressure on natural resources.

This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin.

This book deals with the mathematics of the medieval West between ca.

This book is invaluable for teachers and students in high school and junior college who struggle to understand the principles of modern physics and incorporate scientific methods in their lessons.

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice.

Sul's history of the international ginseng trade reveals the cultural aspects of international capitalism and the impact of this single commodity on relations between the East and the West.

The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders.

This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between the National Birth Control Association, later the Family Planning Association, and contraceptive science and technology in the pre-Pill era.

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Dangerous Motherhood is the first study of the close and complex relationship between mental disorder and childbirth.

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Behavioral neuroendocrinologists are interested in the interactions between hormones and behaviors.

Phosphorus is essential to the production of our food, and it also triggers algal blooms in lakes, rivers, and oceans when it slips through our hands.

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth.

In this volume, seven historians of science examine the historical creation and meaning of a range of scientific textual forms from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries.

This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country.

El itinerario histórico del presente libro arranca en una serie de textos y autores del reinado del tercer Felipe y termina en los últimos compases del siglo XVII.

Until the nineteenth century all time was local time.

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines.

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain?

This collection provides the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the works of Margaret Cavendish currently available.

Between 1945 and 1970, Canada's Department of National Defence sponsored scientific research into the myriad challenges of military operations in cold regions.

Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia.

This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context.

A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge.

Hellmuth Kneser (1898-1973) ist der Zweite von drei bedeutenden Mathematikern aus aufeinander folgenden Generationen der Familie Kneser, die wegweisende Erkenntnisse in einem erstaunlich breiten Spektrum von Spezialgebieten beisteuerten.

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians the Netherlands has ever known.

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution.

In Air's Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works.

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution.

The autopsy of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) initiated two centuries of Johnsonian anatomy-both in medical speculation about his famously unruly body and in literary devotion to his anecdotal remains.

Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese.

Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920.