History of science

Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology.

This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the history of ancient science.

In 1859, Charles Baudelaire is writing the poetry and criticism of the new urban cultural and social world which would make him described by a number of historians as the first modern.

Broadcast Sound Technology (1995) covers the basic principles of all the main aspects of the broadcast chain, including microphones and loudspeakers technology, mixing consoles, recording and replay (analogue and digital) and the principles of stereo.

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts.

Space tourism has become extremely significant in recent times, especially in pursuance of the new space race among corporate giants such as Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist.

Colour Television (1968) examines the rapid growth of colour television in the 1960s as technological advances enabled programmes to be effectively transmitted in colour for the first time.

Over the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the 'new view' of Newton now generally accepted.

Die These dieses Buches lautet, dass es in diesem Zeitalter erstmalig möglich ist, objektiv überzeugende Antworten auf die großen philosophischen Lebensfragen zu erhalten.

This collection brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century.

The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals-and, just as important, freeing the innocent-has transformed society's assault on crime.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Schulen" verfügbar.

This book argues that Descartes' physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Leonhard Eulers Wirken an der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften 1741–1766" verfügbar.

In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "e;Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.

Broadcast Indecency (1997) treats broadcast indecency as more than a simple regulatory problem in American law.

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged.

Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar.

Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900.

This book argues that Descartes' physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics.

At a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large-scale science, physicist J.

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century.

Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences.

Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods.

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life-one without constant, environmentally damaging growth-might still be rich and satisfying.

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty.

This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scientific body.

Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras.

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "e;living life.

The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niels Bohr's practice of physics.

This edited volume records the critical historical developments in thermal physiology and makes them accessible to new and senior thermal biologists and scientists in related fields.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Samuel Pufendorf und die Leipziger Gelehrtengesellschaften in der Mitte des 17.

Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space.

Americans have long been enthralled by visions of the apocalypse.

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War IAs the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony.

New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1870 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

This book re-examines the endosymbiotic theory, and presents various related theories and hypotheses since the first proposal in 1905 by a Russian biologist.

Colleagues and former students of the late Professor Pritchard (aka Bob), an eminent UK geneticist, have gathered memories about his scientific and personal life.

In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC).

At the beginning of the 18th century there was no science of physics as we recognise it today; by the early years of the nineteenth century, there was.

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire.