Entgegen einer pauschalen Kritik an den Epochenbegriffen diskutieren die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes historische und systematische Bedingungen der Möglichkeit von Epochisierungen.
Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette's new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia.
Im Jahr 1780 verfasste der junge Friedrich Schiller als „Prüfschrift“ am Ende seines Medizinstudiums eine lateinische Erörterung über verschiedene Fieberarten.
Der Band dokumentiert ein Lebensprojekt: Für Alexander von Humboldt war die Geographie der Pflanzen empirisches Forschungsprogramm und ästhetische Anschauungswissenschaft zugleich.
Preußen als Nationalstaat, als Kulturstaat, als Militärmacht: Jenseits dieser eindimensionalen Vorstellungen entfaltet das neue Buch von Ottmar Ette das Bild eines vielperspektivischen Preußen.
Based on a wide variety of previously unstudied sources, these articles explain how science was applied to three aspects of Islamic ritual in the Middle Ages: the regulation of the lunar calendar; the organisation of the times of the five daily prayers; and the determination of the sacred direction (qibla) towards the Kaaba in Mecca.
This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics.
"Ein aufwühlender Bericht über die katastrophalen Folgen menschlicher Gier für bedrohte Vogelarten, ein starkes Argument für den Umweltschutz – und vor allem: ein fesselnder Kriminalfall.
Einsteins letztes Rätsel2016 ging eine Sensationsmeldung um die Welt: Endlich war es gelungen, das letzte Element der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie direkt nachzuweisen, die Gravitationswellen, das Ergebnis eines kosmischen Crashs, bei dem zwei Schwarze Löcher vor 1,3 Milliarden Jahren miteinander verschmolzen sind.
This book highlights stories of the most important 13 ground-based observatories and 14 space probes in human history, leading readers through each significant step of human's astronomical observation journey.
A non-technical (but serious) treatment of those parts of Earth history leading up to human history, as well as some pre-historical aspects of humanity.
This book offers a unique perspective and novel information on the significant contributions of Russian scientists to analytical chemistry and chemical analysis.
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings.
This book explores the emerging field of political geology, an area of study dedicated to understanding the cross-sections between geology and politics.
This book demonstrates how quantitative methods for text analysis can successfully combine with qualitative methods in the study of different disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world's first "e;global economy"e;-from a longue duree perspective.
This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World-the world's first "e;global economy"e;-from a longue duree perspective.
This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of programming systems, intended as large computational systems like, for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes.
This book demonstrates how quantitative methods for text analysis can successfully combine with qualitative methods in the study of different disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles.
In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions.
The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science, transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today.
This Brief presents for the first time a detailed historical overview of the development of acetylene polymers, beginning with the initial discovery of acetylene in 1836 and continuing up through the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
