History of science

This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL), one of the major marine laboratories in the United States and a leader in using marine organisms to study fundamental physiological concepts.

This is the story of the astronomer Milton La Salle Humason, whose career was integral to developing our understanding of stellar and universal evolution and who helped to build the analytical basis for the work of such notable astronomers and astrophysicists as Paul Merrill, Walter Adams, Alfred Joy, Frederick Seares, Fritz Zwicky, Walter Baade and Edwin Hubble.

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Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories.

This book describes the evolution of ideas relating to the mechanism of muscular contraction since the discovery of sliding filaments in 1954.

This book collects three outstanding examples of the work of Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera (1868-1943), a pioneer in experimental origins of life research.

Science and faith are often seen as being in opposition.

The Latest Scientific Discoveries Point to an Intentional Creator Most of us remember the basics from science classes about how Earth came to be the only known planet that sustains complex life.

Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad.

On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios.

If you live in the Caribbean or Florida, youve probably heard tales about the Great Okeechobee Hurricane, which killed thousands and left behind wide swaths of destruction.

Includes specially selected articles that previously appeared in The Chemical Intelligencer magazine published (1995-2000).

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

Science holds a central role in the modern world, yet its complex interrelationships with nature, technology, and politics are often misunderstood or seen from a false perspective.

The fruits of a unique cultural exchange are brought together in this unusual book.

The discovery in 1987 of a supernova brought to world attention the excellence of Canadian astronomers.

The present age is sometimes called the Scientific Age.

Science holds a central role in the modern world, yet its complex interrelationships with nature, technology, and politics are often misunderstood or seen from a false perspective.

The discovery in 1987 of a supernova brought to world attention the excellence of Canadian astronomers.

The fruits of a unique cultural exchange are brought together in this unusual book.

This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965.

This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965.

Mycologists have been searching for a better system of classification of Fungi Imperfecti than that based on mature morphology.

The present age is sometimes called the Scientific Age.

In the decade before 1900, the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano was one of the most original and influential pioneers of modern mathematical logic.

Mycologists have been searching for a better system of classification of Fungi Imperfecti than that based on mature morphology.

This volume is made up of papers presented at a colloquium of the Geology Devision of Section III of the Royal Society of Canada at the annual meeting in Quebec, June 1963.

Many people have a great fear of snakes.

The author has taken an important subject, one which has pervaded the thinking of scientists, philosophers, and historians, and with impeccable scholarship and great clarity has concerned himself with a specific aspect of it: the way in which the determination of how the unity of the sciences is to be conceived presented itself to philosophers as a specifically philosophical or logical problem.

This volume is made up of papers presented at a colloquium of the Geology Devision of Section III of the Royal Society of Canada at the annual meeting in Quebec, June 1963.

Many people have a great fear of snakes.

This book presents a survey of research on neuronal behaviour after denervation.

This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto.

The author has taken an important subject, one which has pervaded the thinking of scientists, philosophers, and historians, and with impeccable scholarship and great clarity has concerned himself with a specific aspect of it: the way in which the determination of how the unity of the sciences is to be conceived presented itself to philosophers as a specifically philosophical or logical problem.

These proceedings report the fifth seminar and general assembly of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, with the University of Montreal as host.

Analytical mechanics is much more than an efficient tool for the solution of dynamical problems encountered in physics and engineering.

The expedition of Naval Lieutenant Lavrentiy Alekseyevich Zagoskin constitutes one of the most remarkable pages in the history of Russian exploration during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Quetico is the name of a provincial park in Northwestern Ontario, situated near the international border between Fort Frances and the Lakehead.

The annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada for 1964 was held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where one hundred years previously the first steps towards the confederation of Canada had been taken.

Local history has been studied in Britain for at least 500 years.

In 1760 the first edition of the Traite d'optique sur la gradation de la lumiere of Pierre Bouguer was published posthumously.

Across the prairies and west to the Pacific, man has had to fight a constant battle against insect pests.

In 1980 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers celebrates the centenary of its founding.

For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age.

For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age.

For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work.

In recent decades research into the foundations of geometry has completely transformed the field and created a need for new methods of presenting geometry at the university level.

The publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species touched off a violent controversy which, when the tumult had died down, left the theory of biological evolution firmly established.