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Evolution of Knowledge
Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Av Jürgen Renn
Häftad, 2022
296 kr
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A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines …
One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
Av Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud passed within a few minutes through the British and French trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 …
Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
Av Sonja Brentjes, Jürgen Renn
Häftad, 2020
728 kr
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The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of …
Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman
Av Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1532 kr
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The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of …
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 4
The Swiss Years: Writings, 1912-1914
Av Albert Einstein, Martin J. Klein m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1805 kr
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This volume presents Einstein's writings from the final period of his work in Switzerland. Most of the material in Volume 4 documents Einstein's search for a relativistic theory of gravitation, a search that ended in Berlin in the fall of 1915 with the completion of the general theory of …
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 2
The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909
Av Albert Einstein, John Stachel m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1805 kr
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This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein contains the scientific work Einstein published during the first decade of his career, and includes some of the most significant achievements of twentieth-century physics. The first paper was written in 1900 by the twenty-one-year-old Einstein, …
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 3
The Swiss Years: Writings, 1909-1911
Av Albert Einstein, Martin J. Klein m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1805 kr
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This volume of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in October 1909. The initial date marks Einstein's departure from the Swiss Patent Office at Bern, which had been his professional home for seven years, and the beginning of his …
Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric
The Love Letters
Av Albert Einstein, Jürgen Renn m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
251 kr
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In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning in 1897, after Einstein and Maric met as students at the Swiss Federal …
Road to Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece
Av Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2015
416 kr
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This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and …
Einsteinian Revolution
The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs
Av Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2023
296 kr
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How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein’s work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter, and radiation. Beginning with Einstein’s …
Evolution of Knowledge
Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Av Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2020
475 kr
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A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines …
Formative Years of Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures
Av Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2017
381 kr
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First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and controversial theory of relativity. The work would go on to become a monumental classic, printed in numerous editions and …
Road to Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece
Av Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Häftad, 2017
245 kr
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This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and …
Einstein on Einstein
Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections
Av Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2020
459 kr
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New perspectives on the iconic physicist's scientific and philosophical formationAt the end of World War II, Albert Einstein was invited to write his intellectual autobiography for the Library of Living Philosophers. The resulting book was his uniquely personal Autobiographical Notes, a classic …
Evolution of Knowledge
Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Av Jurgen Renn
E-bok, 2020
400 kr
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A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines …
Einsteinian Revolution
The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs
Av Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn
Häftad, 2025
177 kr
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How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein’s work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter, and radiation. Beginning with Einstein’s …
Expanding Worlds of General Relativity
Av Hubert Goenner, Jürgen Renn m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1641 kr
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The past decade has seen a considerable surge of interest in historical and philo sophical studies of gravitation and relativity, due not only to the tremendous amount of world-wide research in general relativity and its theoretical and observational consequences, but also to an increasing …
Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics
Av Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1096 kr
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This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein’s pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and matter, and resulted in the …
Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics
Av Matthias Schemmel, Jurgen Renn m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
1459 kr
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This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein’s pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and matter, and resulted in the …
Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
Av Jurgen Renn, Sonja Brentjes
E-bok, 2016
856 kr
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The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of …
Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
Av Jurgen Renn, Sonja Brentjes
E-bok, 2016
856 kr
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The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of …
Road to Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein''s "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein''s Masterpiece
Av Jurgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund
E-bok, 2015
304 kr
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An annotated facsimile edition of Einstein''s handwritten manuscript on the foundations of general relativity This richly annotated facsimile edition of "The Foundation of General Relativity" introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein''s theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this …
Formative Years of Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein''s Princeton Lectures
Av Jurgen Renn, Hanoch Gutfreund
E-bok, 2017
500 kr
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First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanation of the then new and controversial theory of relativity. The work would go on to become a monumental classic, printed in numerous editions and …
Genesis of General Relativity
Sources and Interpretations
Av Jürgen Renn
2007
10925 kr
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The transition from classical to modern physics in the ?rst half of the twentieth c- tury by quantum and relativity theories affected some of the most fundamental notions of physical thinking, such as matter, radiation, space, and time. This tran- tion thus represents a challenge for any attempt to …
Genesis of General Relativity
Sources and Interpretations
Av Jurgen Renn
E-bok, 2007
12213 kr
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The transition from classical to modern physics in the ?rst half of the twentieth c- tury by quantum and relativity theories affected some of the most fundamental notions of physical thinking, such as matter, radiation, space, and time. This tran- tion thus represents a challenge for any attempt to …
Positioning the History of Science
Av Kostas Gavroglu, Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2007
1096 kr
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The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives. Readers will find it illuminating to learn how …
Positioning the History of Science
Av Jurgen Renn, Kostas Gavroglu
E-bok, 2007
1459 kr
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The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives. Readers will find it illuminating to learn how …
Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman
Av Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
1532 kr
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The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of …
Expanding Worlds of General Relativity
Av Hubert Goenner, Jürgen Renn m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
1641 kr
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The past decade has seen a considerable surge of interest in historical and philo sophical studies of gravitation and relativity, due not only to the tremendous amount of world-wide research in general relativity and its theoretical and observational consequences, but also to an increasing …
Globalization of Knowledge in the Post-Antique Mediterranean, 700-1500
Av Sonja Brentjes, Jürgen Renn
Inbunden, 2016
2590 kr
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The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across the late antique Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Each contribution not only presents a different case study but also investigates a different type of …