History of science

Eine integrale Verbindung von Universitäts-, Wissenschafts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte ist nach wie vor ein Desiderat, ebenso wie die Forderung, Zeitgeschichte als Wissen(schaft)sgeschichte zu schreiben.

Die Idee eines erziehenden Gemeinschaftslebens gab es sowohl in der deutschen als auch in der amerikanischen Hochschuldebatte des 19.

Die Camera obscura war das erste Bildsichtgerät.

In der Mitte des 20.

Während des "Dritten Reiches" war die Landwirtschaftsforschung die mit Abstand am stärksten DFG-finanzierte wissenschaftliche Fachsparte.

Die Principia Isaac Newtons (1643–1727) gelten als zentraler Beitrag zur klassischen Mechanik.

Les mathématiques médiévales avaient un rôle économique très important au XIIème siècle étant donné que leur usage ne se limitait pas aux simples érudits, mais s'étendait aux commerçants bien établis et aux itinérants.

Archivalien sind dem Wandel der Dinge in gewissen Grenzen enthoben.

Die an Kontroversen reiche Geschichte der Wissenschaften dürfte keine Auseinandersetzung kennen, die heftiger und einschneidender war als der Streit um das heliozentrische Weltbild.

Der Historiker Karl Griewank, 1900 geboren und 1953 durch Suizid aus dem Leben geschieden, ist bekannt durch seine Studien zu Königin Luise, zum Wiener Kongreß und zur Geschichte der neuzeitlichen Revolutionen.

Für das Verständnis der Geschichte der Soziologie im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert ist es unabdingbar, die Debatten und institutionellen Strukturen zu rekonstruieren, die das Fach geprägt haben.

Unter dem Titel Kosmos und Zahl präsentieren Wissenschaftshistoriker aus den USA, aus Russland, England, Frankreich und Deutschland Originalarbeiten zur Astronomie- und Mathematikgeschichte, die durch Beiträge aus der Leibniz- und Alexander-von-Humboldt-Forschung fokussiert und ergänzt werden.

Das Editionsprojekt bietet eine umfassende Sammlung der Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Greifswald aus deutschen, polnischen, schwedischen und dänischen Archiven.

La ciencia suele presentarse en los libros como un conjunto de conocimientos sobre el mundo.

"Piedra Rosetta de la naturaleza", punto de partida de toda la Química, la tabla periódica de los elementos no es solo la compilación de conocimientos más compacta y significativa elaborada hasta hoy, sino que refleja el orden natural de las cosas en el mundo y, por lo que sabemos, en todo el universo.

Die medizinischen Verbrechen, die nationalsozialistische Ärzte begingen, beeinflussen bis heute medizinethische Debatten.

Uno de los méritos más notables -aunque no el menor- de esta "Breve historia de las matemáticas" es su original planteamiento.

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué se siente al ser un virus?

Unser Buch vom rosa Riesen beleuchtet die grausame Tötungsserie des "Rosa Riesen" in der Wendezeit.

We all know the names Watson and Crick, the brilliant men who discovered the double helix structure of DNA.

El papel de las mujeres en la ciencia ha sido invisibilizado a lo largo de la historia; sus aportes y descubrimientos muchas veces han sido borrados, haciendo pensar en la ciencia como algo netamente masculino.

From the caveman selecting the right stick to the Babylonian priest who predicted an eclipse and claimed credit for it, the weaponization of knowledge is as old as human civilization.

Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey.

This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of philosophical, mathematical, and physical ideas that is the source of the theory's enduring philosophical interest.

The New World primates have radiated widely in tropical America, evolving a variety of adaptations to cope with different ways of life.

As Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, as Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, as industrial troubleshooter for Forrestal, Admiral Bowen frequently was forced to fight the "e;mossbacks"e; who stubbornly resisted new inventions and techniques.

Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences.

When the National Science Foundation funds research about the earth's crust and the Department of Energy supports studies on the disposal of nuclear wastes, what do they expect for their money?

Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is one of the most complex among the primates.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) was one of the leading scientists of the nineteenth century, having played a crucial role in founding electromagnetism.

Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be "e;foolish"e;?

In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators.

Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "e;natural magic"e; designed to produce wondrous effects.

In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has surrounded much of this legendary scientist's laboratory work.

This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also illuminates the development of evolutionary studies in Russia and in the West.

The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit of alchemy.

In this book Francois De Gandt introduces us to the reading of Newton's Principia in its own terms.

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been controversial since the introduction of quantum theory in the 1920s.

The principle of the conservation of energy was among the most important developments of nineteenth-century physics, and Robert Mayer, a physician from a small city in Germany, was one of its codiscoverers.

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research.

Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a story ignored until now in spite of the glare of publicity surrounding Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons.

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential?

This is the first complete English translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena--one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek antiquity.

This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences.

Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships.

In this path-breaking work, Paul Thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutions.

A Royal Air Force pilot lies dying of a wound infection in a North African field hospital in 1943.

Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history.

El interés por la divulgación de los principios científicos lleva a Isaac Asimov a analizar en "Grandes ideas de la ciencia" las hipótesis y descubrimientos que destacados personajes llevaron a cabo a lo largo de la historia, y que hicieron posible la evolución de sus respectivos ámbitos de conocimiento: Tales y Pitágoras en las matemáticas, Hipócrates en la medicina, Linneo y Darwin en la biología, Galileo, Russell y Wöhler en la astronomía, Faraday, Rumford y Planck en el dominio de la física, son algunos de los casos que el autor utiliza para realizar un ameno recorrido por la evolución del saber científico.

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries.