History of science

An innovative exploration of China''s modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing.

Es ist kaum bekannt, dass Computerpionier Konrad Zuse eine besonders enge Beziehung zur Schweiz hatte und am Entstehen einer Informatik-Kultur in der Schweiz wesentlich beteiligt war.

In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make normal people behave in pathological ways.

This book provides a scientific history of research into intermolecular forces.

This inaugural handbook documents the distinctive research field that utilizes history and philosophy in investigation of theoretical, curricular and pedagogical issues in the teaching of science and mathematics.

This book describes and explains the world of particle accelerators and the physics they study.

The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority.

Clara Irazabal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America's great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there.

This volume explores modern science using different frames of reference: national, transnational, and global.

This book presents the process of circulation and adoption of Newtonianism in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) in the eighteenth century by examining Jose Celestino Mutis's lectures at the Colegio del Rosario between the 1760s and 1770s.

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light.

Witnessing a total solar eclipse is a wondrous and unforgettable event!

Are science and technology independent of one another?

In 1918, a devastating world-wide influenza epidemic hit the United States.

This innovative text bridges media theory, psychology, and interpersonal communication by describing how our relationships with media emulate the relationships we develop with friends and romantic partners through their ability to replicate intimacy, regularity, and reciprocity.

This book provides a new all-round perspective on the life and work of Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) as a philosopher, historian, and sociologist.

From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939 deals with a particular phase in the early history of nuclear physics: the race among four laboratory teams to be the first to achieve the transmutation of atomic nuclei with artificially accelerated nuclear projectiles (protons) in high-voltage discharge tubes.

In 1980 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers celebrates the centenary of its founding.

This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors.

A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on EarthWhen we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices-or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy sky.

In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) and Meghnad Saha (1893-1956).

The Gold Coast is a well-known and loved destination for local and international tourists, a city of surf and sun, pleasure and leisure.

This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.

This encyclopedia explores historical and contemporary fringe remedies seen as strange, ridiculous, or even gruesome by modern Western medicine but which nevertheless played an important role in the history of medicine.

The first synoptic history of how the Royal Society faced up to the challenges of continued relevance from 1960 onwards.

Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery.

Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal.

In A History of Modern Psychology in Context, the authors resist the traditional storylines of great achievements by eminent people, or schools of thought that rise and fall in the wake of scientific progress.

Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period.

The classic case for why government must support science-with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science todayScience, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government's responsibility to support scientific endeavors.

This book explores how Victorian fiction helped create an environmental consciousness by articulating questions about sustainable energy use.

A groundbreaking study of South Africa''s role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

In his provocative and timely study of posthumanism, Dongshin Yi adopts an imaginary/imaginative approach to exploring the transformative power of the cyborg, a strategy that introduces balance to the current discourses dominated by the practicalities of technoscience and the dictates of anthropocentrism.

This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution.

Die Universitätsphilosophie als Produktionsstätte dessen, was wir für Philosophie halten, ist bislang nicht erforscht worden, wohl aus dem Vorurteil heraus, es gäbe keine philosophische Praxis, die nicht in den Idealen der Disziplin selbst vorgezeichnet sei.

The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research.

Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion.

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.

Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole.

A portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University of Cambridge.

'A fascinating and challenging story' New York Review of Books 'This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important scientific question of our age' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination.