History of science

This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965.

Andrew Janiak presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy.

The late eighteenth century and subsequent Napoleonic Era witnessed a turning point in the establishment of agricultural science as a well-defined discipline in northern Italy.

This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin.

The astonishing new story of human originsWas Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa?

What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group?

This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America.

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY).

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science.

The History and Bioethics of Medical Education: "e;You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"e; continues the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by exploring approaches to the teaching of bioethics from disparate disciplines, geographies, and contexts.

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites.

Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral sometimes known as fool's gold.

A Director's Method for Film and Television (1992) presents the 'cinematic language' approach to directing for film and television directors.

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence.

To enact the book's central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions.

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

'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' GuardianA beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet.

This book proposes a philosophical exploration of the educational role that media plays in university study practices, with a focus on the practices of lecturing and academic writing.

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention?

In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr walk into the famous Hotel Metropole and sit down at the author's table to discuss the state of quantum mechanics today.

An engaging re-examination of William Huggins'' life and career; it will appeal to anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

A powerful reimagining of the world in which a young Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution.

This book presents the exceptional biography of the 20th century Chinese astronomer Cheng Maolan, who came to France in 1926 on a China-France cooperation program to do his PhD with the idea of returning to China after a few years.

In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.

The book is about the transition from classical to quantum mechanics, covering the historical development of this great leap, and explaining the concepts needed to understand it at a level suitable for undergraduate students.

the demise of the logical positivism programme.

On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection.

Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature provides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and literature.

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

This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group.

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW).

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of the celestial bodies.

This book provides insight and expert advice on the challenges of Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security (TIPPSS) for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) in our connected world.

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition.

The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century.

Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century.

Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past.

This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).

Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement's filiation and influence in a range of contexts.

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism.

The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats.

Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

Examines how the philosophy of biology has evolved to our current understanding.

Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War.