History of science

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of great intellectual and practical achievement and innovation.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more.

This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century.

This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo's life and thought-his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as "e;father of modern science.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 78 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy.

The opening of the Parkes radio telescope in October 1961 placed Australia at the forefront of international research in radio astronomy and ushered in an era of rapid developments in our understanding of the origin and nature of the Universe and our place within it.

This volume, first published in 1921, presents a series of portraits of Einstein, thus offering glimpses in the character and private reflections of the man who changed the course of modern science.

Elegant erzählt John Freely das wechselvolle Leben eines der bedeutendsten Gelehrten der Renaissance.

Exploring how scholars use digital resources to reconstruct the 19th century, this volume probes key issues in the intersection of digital humanities and history.

This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today.

This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods.

The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view.

This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of the most senior, distinguished members of the History of Computing field.

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion.

In recent years, many philosophers of modern physics came to the conclusion that the problem of how objectivity is constituted (rather than merely given) can no longer be avoided, and therefore that a transcendental approach in the spirit of Kant is now philosophically relevant.

This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.

This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy.

Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development.

This is the tale of the modern Space Age, detailing all the risks, rewards and rivalries that have fueled space exploration over the decades.

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space.

This 2004 book focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin''s theory of evolution using a historical and philosophical perspective.

Christine Ferguson's timely study is the first comprehensive examination of the importance of language in forming a crucial nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle.

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

This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N.

Bill Bryson es uno de los escritores más queridos y  autor de varios bestsellers que  nos lleva hacia las preguntas más intrigantes e intratables que la ciencia busca responder.

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century.

How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to createIn 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities.

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.

This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa''s national parks during the twentieth century.

A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world.

Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is getting at the truth.

Dieses Sachbuch zeichnet die geschichtliche Entwicklung der irdischen Radiobotschaften ins Universum nach: von den frühesten Spekulationen über die Existenz extraterrestrischer Intelligenz zu den ersten Radiosignalen in Richtung Venus, gefolgt von dem Bau großer Radioobservatorien, die das Senden zahlreicher intelligenter sowie irrsinniger Botschaften ins All ermöglichten.

In our new century, the theory of fuzzy sets and systems is in the core of "e;Soft Computing"e; and "e;Computational Intelligence"e; and has become a normal scientific theory in the fields of exact sciences and engineering and it is well on its way to becoming normal in the soft sciences as well.

Madness: A History is a thorough and accessible account of madness from antiquity to modern times, offering a large-scale yet nuanced picture of mental illness and its varieties in western civilization.

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This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses.

Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge.

The first extensive treatment of the mandrill''s reproductive and behavioural biology, focusing on mechanisms of sexual selection and evolution.

The story of the modern research university in Europe and its expansion to other continents, first published in 2004.

An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.

The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England.

This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then Galileo''s discoveries, casts the European advancements in modern science, technology, and economic development into a global framework.

This volume, first published in 1921, presents a series of portraits of Einstein, thus offering glimpses in the character and private reflections of the man who changed the course of modern science.

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