History of science

The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself.

From 1965-1968, I held an Agricultural Research Council Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Like any goal-oriented procedure, experiment is subject to many kinds of failures.

Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology.

As stated many times before the purpose of Orchid Biology, Reviews and Perspectives (OB) is to present reviews on all aspects of orchids.

In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included.

In 1998 the chairman of the Russian National Committee of TMM Professor Arcady Bessonov, recommended one of authors of this book to be come a member of the IFToMM Permanent Commission on the History of Mechanisms and Machines Sciences (PC HMMS).

Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge.

Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets.

Leibniz's metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science.

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Kuhn and Feyerabend formulated the problem.

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "e;moral brain"e; became a serious endeavour.

The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective.

The aim of this book is to explore and understand the activities undertaken by the Florentine Accademia del Cimento, one of Europe's first scientific societies.

This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures.

The book offers a history of the agricultural sciences in Nazi Germany.

From its founding in 1927 until its dissolution in 1945, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics (KWI-A) in Berlin-Dahlem transgressed many a boundary; indeed, the transgression of boundaries was in a sense its raison d'etre from the outset.

This summons clearly resonates with the "e;archetypical image"e; associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one's horizon.

Ancient China was outstanding in mechanical technology before the 15th century.

Fluid Mechanics, as a scientific discipline in a modern sense, was established between the last third of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th one.

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the "e;Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul"e;.

Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the calculus of probabilities, administrative statistics, the moral and social sciences, the statistics of variability, post-Darwinian biology and Durkheimian sociology.

Congenital malformations are worldwide occurrences, they know no national borders, do not distinguish between races, ethnicities, rich or poor.

"e;Clashes of Knowledge"e; is the first volume in a book series called "e;Knowledge and Space"e; dealing with spatial disparities of knowledge and the impact of the spatial context on the production and application of knowledge.

More than a century ago Louis Pasteur observed that "e;Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world"e;.

The English Galileo-the title of this book draws on the extraordinary prominence of Galileo Galilei in the historiography of the early modern Scienti?

It has been said that history is a debate between the present and the past about the future.

Ah the Machine; both coveted and criticized, life sustaining and life destr- ing yet always a symbol of human creativity and invention from the Rena- sance to robotics from the Wright brothers to the Wankel engine.

This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences- specifically, here, demography and statistics-from the seventeenth century to the present.

Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century's most important German natural scientists.

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963.

In September 2005, Yerevan (Armenia) hosted an International Conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the publication of the so called "e;green paper"e;, published by N.

This study brings together ideas developed over many years in various lectures in an endeavour to clarify the concept of hermeneutic fore-structure of scientific research.

Involving electricity, elasticity, thermodynamics and crystallography, several scientific traditions and approaches and leading physicists, the history of piezoelectricity provides an advantageous perspective on late nineteenth century physics and its development.

This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on "e;Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period"e; held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain.

Self-organization constitutes one of the most important theoretical debates in contemporary life sciences.

The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science.

Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee.

An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley.

Creativity, Psychology, and the History of Science offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of Howard E.

As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having become the first student to receive a Ph.

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character-he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries.

Suppose a human being has thus put his ear, as it were, to the heart chamber of the world will and felt the roaring desire for existence pouring from there into all the veins of the world, as a thundering current or as the gentlest brook, dissolving into a mist-how could he fail to break suddenly?

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination - John DeweyIn A History of Science, Mary Cruse takes readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of this discipline in its many strands.

'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

This book provides an overview of the history of allied medicine in the Great War.