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History of Chemistry
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Isabelle Stengers
Inbunden, 1996
896 kr
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From the earliest use of fire to forge iron tools to the medieval alchemists’ search for the philosopher’s stone, the secrets of the elements have been pursued by human civilization. But, as the authors of this concise history remind us, “disciplines like physics and chemistry have not existed …
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Christine Blondel
Inbunden, 2008
2588 kr
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Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy …
Living in a Nuclear World
From Fukushima to Hiroshima
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2585 kr
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The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test) and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly …
Living in a Nuclear World
From Fukushima to Hiroshima
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test) and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly …
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Christine Blondel
Häftad, 2016
891 kr
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Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy …
Research Objects in their Technological Setting
Av Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Sacha Loeve m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
706 kr
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What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things – …
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Christine Blondel
E-bok, 2016
1052 kr
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Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy …
Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Christine Blondel
E-bok, 2016
1052 kr
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Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy …
Research Objects in their Technological Setting
Av Astrid Schwarz, Alfred Nordmann m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
831 kr
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What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things – …
Research Objects in their Technological Setting
Av Astrid Schwarz, Alfred Nordmann m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
813 kr
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What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things – …
Carbon
A Biography
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve
Inbunden, 2024
262 kr
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Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as …
Carbon
A Biography
Av Sacha Loeve, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
E-bok, 2024
245 kr
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Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as …
Carbon
A Biography
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve
Häftad, 2025
152 kr
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Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in nature as it has roles in human life on earth. And yet it rarely makes the headlines as …
CHEMISTRY: THE IMPURE SCIENCE (2ND EDITION)
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jonathan Simon
Inbunden, 2012
1644 kr
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What do you associate with chemistry? Explosions, innovative materials, plastics, pollution? The public's confused and contradictory conception of chemistry as basic science, industrial producer and polluter contributes to what we present in this book as chemistry's image as an impure science. …
Research Objects in their Technological Setting
Av Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Sacha Loeve m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things – …
Eloge du mixte: Matériaux nouveaux et philosophie ancienne
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Häftad, 2018
595 kr
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French Philosophy of Technology
Classical Readings and Contemporary Approaches
Av Sacha Loeve, Xavier Guchet m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1853 kr
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Offering an overall insight into the French tradition of philosophy of technology, this volume is meant to make French-speaking contributions more accessible to the international philosophical community. The first section, “Negotiating a Cultural Heritage,” presents a number of leading 20th century …
Paul Langevin: Physicist and Social Activist
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Francis Duck
Inbunden, 2025
528 kr
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The book is based on a complete translation into English of the 1987 biography, Langevin 1872-1946 Science et Vigilance by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent. This new book includes some important revisions to the original text with numerous additional figures. The description of Langevin’s work in …
French Philosophy of Technology
Classical Readings and Contemporary Approaches
Av Sacha Loeve, Xavier Guchet m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1853 kr
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Offering an overall insight into the French tradition of philosophy of technology, this volume is meant to make French-speaking contributions more accessible to the international philosophical community. The first section, “Negotiating a Cultural Heritage,” presents a number of leading 20th century …
French Philosophy of Technology
Classical Readings and Contemporary Approaches
Av Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Xavier Guchet m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
2384 kr
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Offering an overall insight into the French tradition of philosophy of technology, this volume is meant to make French-speaking contributions more accessible to the international philosophical community. The first section, “Negotiating a Cultural Heritage,” presents a number of leading 20th century …
BETWEEN NATURE AND SOCIETY: BIOGRAPHIES OF MATERIALS
Av Bensaude-Vincent Bernadette, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Inbunden, 2022
1379 kr
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This volume opens the readers' eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found at the complex interface between nature and society. They are not just atomic …
CHEMISTRY: THE IMPURE SCIENCE
Av Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Jonathan Simon
Inbunden, 2008
1522 kr
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This book uses history to introduce central issues in the philosophy of chemistry. Mobilizing the theme of impurity, it explores the tradition of chemistry's negative image. It then argues for the positive philosophical value of chemistry, reflecting its characteristic practical engagement with the …
PUBLIC IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY, THE
Av AL JOACHIM SCHUMMER ET, Joachim Schummer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1662 kr
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Popular associations with chemistry range from poisons, hazards, chemical warfare and environmental pollution to alchemical pseudoscience, sorcery and mad scientists, which gravely affect the public image of science in general. While chemists have merely complained about their public image, social …
