History of science

This book mainly focuses on Chinese science and technology in modern and contemporary China, as well as Western technology, especially modern European science, which greatly influenced Chinese society in the Qing dynasty.

This volume highlights the major science and technology developments in the period from the 7th to 18th century under the influence of Chinese and Western communications and diplomacy, discussing topics such as the Chinese abacus, herbalism, natural history literature in ancient China and musical theory.

This volume presents the development of Chinese science and technology, which was gradually shaped by systematical theories and entered into a new stage of development in the course of a lengthy historical evolution.

Focusing on the astronomy and geosciences in ancient China, this book discusses the scientific developments and achievements in the past 5000 years, including the ancient Chinese calendar and Yellow River harnessing as well as topics such as military geography and ancient earthquake prediction.

This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and the landmark events in the history of science and technology in 20th century China.

This book presents the basic fundamentals of descriptive archaeoastronomy and its application to the astronomical descriptions found in ancient Indian scriptures.

The book presents thirty great Chinese inventions, both ancient and modern, which are original, distinct, have made outstanding contributions and had extensive influence in China and around the globe.

The First Edition of the book is a collection of articles, all by the author, on the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan as well as on some of the greatest mathematicians in history whose life and works have things in common with Ramanujan.

This book explores the history of modern human creativity/innovation, highlighting examples of solutions to basic human' needs that have been developed over time.

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

This book explores the history of mechanical engineering since the Bronze Age.

This book sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Imperial family of Japan: For three generations, members of the family have devoted themselves to biological research.

This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union.

This book explores the history of modern human creativity/innovation, highlighting examples of solutions to basic human' needs that have been developed over time.

This book highlights the role of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, founder of the Calcutta school of physics and the Calcutta Mathematical Society, and his talented scholars - Sir C.

Science has its roots in human curiosity.

The Nobel Prizes is the official yearbook of the Nobel Foundation.

'This is an an absolutely wonderful book that is full of gems about the elements and the periodic table .

Finding Places tells the story of the ground-breaking discovery of the cells that constitute the brain's positioning system - its GPS.

The Nobel Prizes is the official yearbook of the Nobel Foundation.

This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn of civilizations; the second is scientific, conveying mathematical and physical content of each advancement.

The book focuses on the role of the Leonardo da Vinci projects and inventions, specifically the interdisciplinarity of his studies that represents perhaps the first example of the paradigm of complex systems engineering.

During the last years of his life Einstein tried unsuccessfully to unify electromagnetic force with gravitational force geometrically.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man.

This book is indexed in Chemical Abstracts ServiceThis book offers a comprehensive sketch of the tools used in material research and the rich and diverse stories of how those tools came to be.

'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material.

'The statuary and monuments catalogued in this impressive body of work are accompanied by descriptions of the subjects their work and achievements.

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of articles by John Gascoigne explores this movement's filiation and influence in a range of contexts.

The Marquis de Puysegur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind presents the first full English translation of a foundational text in the history of psychodynamic thinking, and provides a contextual explanation of its contemporary significance.

This book is the autobiography of Shinya Inoue, tracing his life from childhood to the present.

Esta es una aproximación documental al modo en que se transformó la vida económica, social y política de los muiscas en torno al beneficio de la sal en Zipaquirá, Nemocón Tausa, durante el siglo XVI y comienzos del XVII.

Miradas a la plástica colombiana de 1900 a 1950: un debate histórico y estético hace referencia a los valores culturales que desde los distintos momentos de producción durante cincuenta años de historia artística se generaron; a sus distintas trayectorias y, por ende, miradas con el paso del tiempo suscitadas por la crítica y la historia del arte.

Durante seis años las autoridades revolucionarias de Colombia recibieron vía Londres detallados informes de cuanto acontecía en la España de Fernando VII suscritos por Thomas Farmer, inglés y comerciante de profesión.

El propósito de este libro es complementar el tratamiento matemático de la mecánica newtoniana que se encuentra en los textos tradicionales.

Es conocido por todos los expertos en la investigación científica sobre embriones humanos in vitro, y por la población en general, que existen dos maneras de acercarse a los problemas que genera la técnica.

Como lo demuestran los casos recientes de Timor Oriental y Kosovo, el reconocimiento de nuevos Estados es un asunto de la mayor actualidad.

Al producirse la crisis de la monarquía española de 1808, Estados Unidos de América era un antecedente exitoso pero excepcional.

Este libro ofrece una historia de la investigación de mercados en Colombia entre 1960 y 2006, identificando la evolución y los cambios en los aspectos organizacionales, profesionales, metodológicos y teóricos propios de este campo, con base en la experiencia de Napoleón Franco Armenta, uno de los empresarios más reconocidos en el estudio del consumidor.

Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy.

This edited volume explores the interplay between philosophies in a wide-ranging analysis of how technological applications in science inform our systems of thought.

Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought.

This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context.

This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research.

Recounting the compelling story of a scientific discovery that took more than a century to complete, this trail-blazing monograph focuses on methodological issues and is the first to delve into this subject.

This book brings together in a unique perspective aspects of natural history dioramas, their history, construction and rationale, interpretation and educational importance, from a number of different countries, from the west coast of the USA, across Europe to China.

This volume follows the successful book, which has helped to introduce and spread the Philosophy of Chemistry to a wider audience of philosophers, historians, science educators as well as chemists, physicists and biologists.

This book is composed of chapters that focus specifically on technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science).

This book brings together a broad spectrum of authors, both from inside and from outside Cuba, who describe the development of Cuba's scientific system from the colonial period to the present.

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence.