Das Editionsprojekt bietet eine umfassende Sammlung der Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Greifswald aus deutschen, polnischen, schwedischen und dänischen Archiven.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time.
An exciting look at the world of elementary mathematicsElements of Mathematics takes readers on a fascinating tour that begins in elementary mathematics-but, as John Stillwell shows, this subject is not as elementary or straightforward as one might think.
An annotated facsimile edition of Einstein's handwritten manuscript on the foundations of general relativityThis richly annotated facsimile edition of "e;The Foundation of General Relativity"e; introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation.
This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes.
Eugene Skolnikoff treats the roles of science and technology across the entire range of relations among nations, including security and economic issues, environmental questions, international economic competitiveness, the spread of weapons technology, the demise of communism, the new content of dependency relations, and the demanding new problems of national and international governance.
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?
