History of science

This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow.

This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity.

This book examines the three most well-known and socially important nuclear accidents.

French aeronautics shone brightly in the first decade of the twentieth Century, but declined after the Great War.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686).

Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode's Law.

Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the discovery of Pallas as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the second of a previously unknown group of celestial objects.

This book presents a modern scholarly analysis of issues associated with England's most famous astronomer, William Herschel.

When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin?

This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge.

This book provides a detailed history of theUnited States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics(USNC/TAM) of the US National Academies, the relationship between the USNC/TAMand IUTAM, and a review of the many mechanicians who developed the field overtime.

This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Mahmud al-Jaghmini's al-Mulakhkhas fi al-hay?

This series of four volumes honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports.

This volume includes contributions presented at the Fifth IFToMM Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms, held at Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro, QRO, Mexico, in June 2016.

This brief offers a novel vision of the city of Florence, tracing the development of chemistry via the biographies of its most illustrious chemists.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most prominent figures in the field and their contributions.

This book looks back on thirty-five years of microwave (MW)chemistry and explains how the application of the MW technique became anintegral part of R&D, eventually becoming recognized in industry.

This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, who led an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone.

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

This volume collects reflections on the role of philosophy in case studies in the history of science.

The main purpose of this book is to introduce black rice to a wider circle of people.

This book describes a holistic study of the porcelain manufactured at Nantgarw and Swansea in the first quarter of the 19th Century, using both scientific analytical data and historical provenancing.

The intention of this book is to shine a bright light on the intellectual context of Euler's contributions to physics and mathematical astronomy.

This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors.

This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research!

This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research.

This collection of essays examines the question of theory from the perspective of the history of chemistry.

When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war.

Since the time of Galileo, astronomy has been driven by technological innovation.

This is the story of the work of the original NASA space pioneers; men and women who were suddenly organized in 1958 from the then National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) into the Space Task Group.

This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helpedend the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later theCarthaginian Empire.

An asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left off in telling the story of the impact created by the discovery of this new class of object in the early 1800s.

This research monograph provides a synthesis of a number of statistical tests and measures, which, at first consideration, appear disjoint and unrelated.

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments.

Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.

This book compiles an array of interesting constellations that fell by the wayside before the IAU established the modern canon of constellations.

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This book explores the relationship between the content of chemistry education and the history and philosophy of science (HPS) framework that underlies such education.

Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering's poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to "e;my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science"e;, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians.

This book examines the transmission processes of the Aristotelian Mechanics.

This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of science will head in the twenty-first century.

Mixing scientific, historic and socio-economic vision, this unique book complements two previously published volumes on the history of continuum mechanics from this distinguished author.

"e;The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise.

This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War.

This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions.

This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new era of cooperation by socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, in the study and exploration of space.

The volume provides an archive of some of the most beautiful illustrations ever made of the gravid uterus with fetus and placenta, which will serve future generations of investigators, educators, and students of reproduction.