History of science

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This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, is one of the most ubiquitous chemical compounds in the history of the chemical sciences.

Conceived as a series of more or less autonomous essays, the present book critically exposes the initial developments of continuum thermo-mechanics in a post Newtonian period extending from the creative works of the Bernoullis to the First World war, i.

This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century.

NASA's Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots.

This volume describes features of autonomy and integrates them into the recent discussion of factors in evolution.

This book presents a collection of texts by the German physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (1912-2007) in English, for use in seminars on the philosophy of religion, the comparative study of religion, but as well on the relationship between religion and the scientific worldview.

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them.

Just what does it take to be a stratonaut, soaring to higher and higher altitudes of Earth's atmosphere?

This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations:* Time and physics* Time, philosophy and psychology* Time, mathematics and information theoryIt is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and psychology.

This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it.

Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science.

This book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient Chinese books.

This edited volume challenges popular notions of sex, gender and biology and features international, trans-disciplinary research.

This unique book presents a nontechnical view of the history of mechanics, from the Big Bang to present day.

The science of cryptology is made up of two halves.

Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012).

Klaus von Beyme, a highly distinguished German political scientist, has been recognised as a "e;Pioneer in the Study of Political Theory and Comparative Politics"e;.

The years 2012/2013 mark the 50th anniversary of the theoretical prediction that Brown Dwarfs, i.

This book presents major texts by Prof.

Inevitably, there are times in a nation's history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person.

These texts by Samir Amin have been selected for the purpose of encouraging readers to learn more about his work to trace the historical trajectory of capitalism, which has consistently produced polarization at the global level.

From Aristotle to Schrodinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics.

Lazlo Zechmeister was one of the pioneers in chromatology.

This book offers fascinating insights into the key technical and scientific developments in the history of radar, from the first patent, taken out by Hulsmeyer in 1904, through to the present day.

This is the second volume to commemorate the 90th birthday of the distinguished scholar Chadwick F.

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of distinguished scholar Chadwick F.

This is the third volume to commemorate the 90th birthday of the distinguished scholar Chadwick F.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most prominent figures in the field and their contributions.

This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany.

This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow.

This book explores Albert Einstein's move to Berlin and the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under his directorship.

This volume offers a wide range of both reconstructions of Nikolai Vasiliev's original logical ideas and their implementations in the modern logic and philosophy.

This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923).

Learn about commercial spaceflight's most successful startup in this fully updated book, which follows the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and positioned it as the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.

This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars.

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking).

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception.

This well-documented and fascinating book tells how, over the centuries, a series of visionaries, scientists, technologists, and politicians fostered the involvement of Italy in space exploration.

This book demonstrates how progress in radio astronomy is intimately linked to the development of reflector antennas of increasing size and precision.

This book provides a broad overview of what peace research is all about by an author who has been involved in the field for more than half a century.

For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry.

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods.

This book, in its first part, contains units of conceptual history of several topics of physics based on the research in physics education and research based articles with regard to several topics involved in teaching science in general and physics in particular.

The story of microscopy over the years is one of wonder, revelation, and even love.

This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally.

Completely revised and updated, this new edition provides a readable, beautifully illustrated journey through world cultures and the vibrant array of sky mythology, creation stories, models of the universe, temples and skyscrapers that each culture has created to celebrate and respond to the power of the night sky.