History of science

Dante's Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante's engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders.

This book provides a solution to the problem with the energy concept.

"e;This sumptuously illustrated celebration of Hawking s life captures perfectly its depth and breadth.

Als jahrzehntelanger Grenzgänger zwischen Ost und West hat sich Jost Hermand weder der amerikanischen noch der sowjetischen Ideologie des Kalten Kriegs verpflichtet gefühlt.

Der Vollwaise Tobias Mayer (1723–1762) entwickelte raffinierte Messinstrumente und eine sehr präzise Theorie zur Bewegung des Mondes um die Erde.

Kaum ein anderes Thema der jüngeren deutschen Medizingeschichte ist so häufig behandelt worden wie das der Medizin im Nationalsozialismus.

Burgen waren für die Nationalsozialisten Symbole ›wehrhaften Germanentums‹ und ›deutschen Eroberungswillens‹.

This book provides a solution to the problem with the energy concept.

This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond.

This collection brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

The notebooks of mineralogist and petrographer Friedrich Johann Karl Becke (1855-1931) give impressive testimony to the scientific practices at the turn of the century.

This textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis, from the earliest known cryptographic systems of 2,500 years ago up to modern computer-based systems.

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Finalist: George Perkins Marsh PrizeFinalist, Susanne M.

This volume contains 8 papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

La tendencia dominante a situar la innovación como eje vertebrador de cualquier cambio social, cultural o político está cimentada en una visión enormemente sesgada de la tecnología y de su evolución histórica.

This volume contains 8 papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany's age of extremes.

Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in physics in concise, 100-word summaries.

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

Every day up to 3,000 aircraft fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

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.

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine.

Previously dependent on Europe for scientific knowledge, the United States came into its own during the nineteenth century.

Se trata de un texto introductorio al concepto de "revolución científica".

En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia.

Finalist: George Perkins Marsh PrizeFinalist, Susanne M.

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died.

En los últimos años, el estudio de la evolución de los discursos y las prácticas psiquiátricas durante el franquismo se ha convertido en un capítulo relevante de la historiografía de la ciencia.

In Prosperos America, Walter W.

Previously dependent on Europe for scientific knowledge, the United States came into its own during the nineteenth century.

In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends.

This volume explores the Industrial Age (1860-1914), bringing together published and archival primary sources with introductory essays that contextualize a period of extraordinary social, cultural, and economic transformation.

The age of print was begun by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440 in Mainz, Germany.

Maths 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your mathematical curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in maths in concise, 100-word summaries.

This book decodes the Meteorologica and shows how it provides the key to understanding Aristotle''s natural philosophy.

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodological agenda.

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodological agenda.

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals.

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals.

This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a "e;second Sun"e;.

This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it was described as a "e;second Sun"e;.

This biographical encyclopedia will provide the first comprehensive reference work on leading scholars and professionals who have contributed to the development and institutionalization of psychology in Latin America.

The thirtieth anniversary of the death of Beppo Occhialini, the cosmic-ray physicist associated among other things to the fundamental discoveries of the electron-positron pairs and of the pion thanks to his contributions to the development of the controlled cloud chamber and of new nuclear emulsions, is the occasion to publish his memoirs on the main events of his scientific life, which he dictated shortly before his death.

This biographical encyclopedia will provide the first comprehensive reference work on leading scholars and professionals who have contributed to the development and institutionalization of psychology in Latin America.