Continuing their research uncovering the lives of women chemists at the turn of the 20th Century, Geoff and Marelene Rayner-Canham have turned their attention to some of the male chemists who enabled women to thrive in chemistry.
This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the "e;taking back"e; of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and solutions from the semantics of perspectival expressions and from the framework of Speech Act theory.
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as 'natural knowledge' - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century.
The scientific connection between Palestine and Egypt dates back to the first century AH, and continued into the Abbasid era, even though the Abbasids neglected Palestine for political reasons, but it became closer during the era of the Fatimids, the Ayyubid state, and the Mamluks.
Este libro ofrece una visión profunda de las influencias y evoluciones filosóficas de Ludovico Geymonat y Fabio Minazzi, destacando su tránsito del neopositivismo al materialismo dialéctico.
This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of nonhuman relations.
This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle Ages, technology and industry declined, even collapsed, in the Muslim Levant, while simultaneously making enormous progress in the Christian West.
This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d.
From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power.
People are accustomed to being afraid and terrified of microbes, and viewing them as all of them being harmful and causing disease, and very few in comparison to the beneficial or harmless ones.
This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the "e;taking back"e; of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and solutions from the semantics of perspectival expressions and from the framework of Speech Act theory.
Introducing astrochemistry to a wide audience, this book describes how molecules formed in chemical reactions occur in a range of environments in interstellar and circumstellar space, from shortly after the Big Bang up to the present epoch.
We can say that the art of mummification, which is the heritage and secret of Egypt, the traces of which remain to this day, has been revived in a land whose Pharaohs had the primary credit for its origin and development and for being the first to achieve it.
In "e;Ford Methods and the Ford Shops,"e; Horace Lucian Arnold and Fay Leone Faurote provide a comprehensive and detailed exploration of the innovative production techniques and organizational practices that revolutionized the automotive industry.
Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politics, ethics, public policy, science and many other areas.
