History of science

This book deals with the mathematical sciences in medieval Islam, and focuses on three main themes.

The book retraces the history of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA) since its establishment in 1965.

Originally published in 1983.

Why are candle flames yellow?

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world's first "e;global economy"e;-from a longue duree perspective.

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird's nest, the octopus's garden in the sea, or the parts of inland lakes in which freshwater plankton reside.

This brief draws on the first modern book about Carl Wilhelm Scheele which was published in Swedish in 2015.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man.

Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century?

The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger cultural need.

Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement AwardHomes can be both comforting and troubling places.

This second volume contains 231 species of 40 families of medicinal plants.

In 1992, students of Bert Green and Angas Hurst conceived the idea of a meeting to commemorate their contributions to Mathematical Physics and to celebrate their passing the milestone of three score years and ten.

Unter Vorgeschichte versteht man gewöhnlich die Geschichte der Menschen vor dem Einsatz schriftlicher Zeugnisse.

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

Darwin did not discover evolution.

This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science.

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives.

The maintenance of human health and the mechanisms by which this is achieved - through medicine, medical intervention and care-giving - are fundamentals of human societies.

Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "e;truly marvelous demonstration.

Machine Dreams recounts how the computer has transformed the content of American economics.

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do.

This book discusses unconventional ways of measuring and addressing poverty in South Africa, which remains one of the country''s biggest challenges.

Essays on America's changing environment from an author who is "e;funny and searching-a joy to read"e; (Elizabeth Kolbert).

Surveys the ecological impacts of World War I, showing how the war had a global impact on the environment.

A non-technical (but serious) treatment of those parts of Earth history leading up to human history, as well as some pre-historical aspects of humanity.

The concept of a chemical element is foundational within the field of chemistry, but there is wide disagreement over its definition.

This book marks the centenary of the remarkable invention of an opto-mechanical planetarium projector, the Zeiss Mk I.

The Industrial Revolution (1958) examines the various interpretations of early industrialization in Britain.

Surveys major topics in the epistemology of big data based scientific approaches and defends an inductivist view of these approaches.

Science has its roots in human curiosity.

Given the significance of spiritual direction in modern Christianity, surprisingly little attention has been given to the tradition upon which today's spiritual direction is built.

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

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire.

Offers an introduction and critical guide to the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief.

Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode's Law.

In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists.

Simply, the most beautiful and complete reference on the Messier objects there has ever been!

This book studies the history of geoscience in ancient China.

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd.

This title was first published in 2000: A manifestation of mass hysteria, a compensation for physical or emotional deprivation, or an alternative to religion?

This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea.

This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses.

In this comprehensive history of symbiosis theory--the first to be written--Jan Sapp masterfully traces its development from modest beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its current status as one of the key conceptual frameworks for the life sciences.

This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world.

Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.

"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.

Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range.