History of science

REFLECTIONS ON SPACETIME - FOUNDATIONS, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY During the academic year 1992/93, an interdisciplinary research group constituted itself at the Zentrum fUr interdisziplinare Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany, under the title 'Semantical Aspects of Spacetime Theories', in which philosophers and physicists worked on topics in the interpretation and history of relativity theory.

2 But already he had done important work on thermal equilibrium which helped generalize Maxwell's distribution law.

The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism.

In the last years, it was observed an increasing interest of computer scientists in the structure of biological molecules and the way how they can be manipulated in vitro in order to define theoretical models of computation based on genetic engineering tools.

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time.

One of the ironies of our time is the sparsity of useful analytic tools for understanding change and development within technology itself.

The end of this century has witnessed dramatic changes in morality, history and geography.

All technologies differ from one another.

Some time ago I published a small piece * dealing with a charming little essay on 'the state of ether in magnetic fields', which the sixteen-year-old Einstein had written while he was awaiting admission to the E.

The title of our book would lead the reader to believe that in speaking ofthe chang- ing image of the sciences, we are taking for granted the multiplicity of sciences, as these are practiced, for instance, in modern universities.

The interrelations of science and technology as an object of study seem to have drawn the attention of a number of disciplines: the history of both science and technology, sociology, economics and economic history, and even the philosophy of science.

The purpose of presenting this book to the scholarly world is twofold.

Heretical thoughts in an orthodox series on sociology of the sciences?

Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them.

This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence.

Cartesian Empiricisms considers the role Cartesians played in the acceptance of experiment in natural philosophy during the seventeenth century.

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.

Biology and history are often viewed as closely related disciplines, with biology informed by history, especially in its task of charting our evolutionary past.

This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory.

The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume.

The history of artificial cold has been a rather intriguing interdisciplinary subject (physics, chemistry, technology, sociology, economics, anthropology, consumer studies) which despite some excellent monographs and research papers, has not been systematically exploited.

This book provides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant's views on proper natural science and biology.

This volume explores the interactions between organisms and their environments and how this "e;entanglement"e; is a fundamental aspect of all life.

The Machines of Sex Research describes how researchers worldwide integrated technology into studies of human sexuality in the postwar era.

As a leading scientist of the 13th century C.

This beautifully structured book presents the essentials of William and Caroline Herschel's pioneering achievements in late 18th-century astronomy.

The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience.

Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp.

This volume addresses the cultural, technical and ethical motivations of the history of drawing of machines and its developments step by step.

The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as questions of form and genre.

This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context.

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression "e;teaching and learning contexts"e; refers.

This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period.

This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33.

Although Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science.

It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom.

This volume celebrates the contributions of Dr.

The book surveys the key metaphysical contributions of the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More (1614-1687).

This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O.

The history of interest and practice in insect conservation is summarised and traced through contributions from many of the leaders in the discipline, to provide the first broad global account of how insects have become incorporated into considerations of conservation.

This book uses the reaction of a number of biologists in the United States and Great Britain to provide an overview of one of the most important controversies in Twentieth Century biology, the "e;Lysenko Affair.

Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the "e;successfulness"e;, "e;reliability"e; or "e;trustworthiness"e; of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments.

This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS).

This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge.

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.

This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics.

Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.