History of science

This volume addresses the cultural, technical and ethical motivations of the history of drawing of machines and its developments step by step.

The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as questions of form and genre.

This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context.

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression "e;teaching and learning contexts"e; refers.

This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period.

This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33.

Although Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science.

It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom.

This volume celebrates the contributions of Dr.

The book surveys the key metaphysical contributions of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687).

The history of interest and practice in insect conservation is summarised and traced through contributions from many of the leaders in the discipline, to provide the first broad global account of how insects have become incorporated into considerations of conservation.

This book uses the reaction of a number of biologists in the United States and Great Britain to provide an overview of one of the most important controversies in Twentieth Century biology, the "e;Lysenko Affair.

Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the "e;successfulness"e;, "e;reliability"e; or "e;trustworthiness"e; of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments.

This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS).

This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge.

Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology.

This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics.

Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.

This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687).

Despite their apparent simplicity, the behaviour of pendulums can be remarkably complicated.

The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience and cultural development.

Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking.

The Yearbook addresses the overriding question: what are the effects of the 'opening up' of science to the media?

Research in science education has recognized the importance of history and philosophy of science (HPS).

This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr's philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls "e;spectators"e; and "e;actors.

In recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716).

Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world.

This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath's conception of the unity of science.

Class insecta is numerically the largest class of the largest phylum outnumbering the total number of all the other known species of the rest of the animal kingdom.

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This book is the first Indian publication on these branches of agricultural/biological sciences.

This fascinating title has been carefully organised to meet the long-felt needs of increasingly large number of those who deals with different aspects of Entomology.

This Encycropaedia is an outstanding to attempt take full account as incur as possible of history of science and technology from ancient times to twentieth century.

This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia.

As concerns about humankind's relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and adds much to the historical and philosophical debate over this multifaceted discipline.

George Berkeley was considered "e;the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century"e;.

This volume, The Brazilian Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, is the first attempt to present to a general audience, works from Brazil on this subject.

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label.

Archimedes is held in high esteem by mathematicians, physicists and engineers as one of the most brilliant scientists of all time.

We increasingly view the world around us as a product of science and technology.

This work presents and philosophically analyzes the early modern and modern history of the theory concerning the soul of the world, anima mundi.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works.

This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science.

There is no more fundamental resource than water.

Francis BACON, in his Novum Organum, Robert BOYLE, in his Skeptical Chemist and Rene DESCARTES, in his Discourse on Method; all of these men were witnesses to the th scientific revolution, which, in the 17 century, began to awaken the western world from a long sleep.

How do Documents Become Sources?

For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease.

Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike.

Since the origin of the modern sciences, our views on discovery and creativity had a remarkable history.