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5 produkter

1. 

   The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages

   Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts

   Av Edward Grant, George Basalla m. fl.

   Häftad, 1996

   398 kr

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   Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative antecedent efforts of three great civilisations: …

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   Science and the Enlightenment

   Av Thomas L. Hankins, George Basalla m. fl.

   Häftad, 1985

   390 kr

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   Science and the Enlightenment is a general history of eighteenth-century science covering both the physical and life sciences. It places the scientific developments of the century in the cultural context of the Enlightenment and reveals the extent to which scientific ideas permeated the thought of …

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   Science in Russia and the Soviet Union

   A Short History

   Av Loren R. Graham, George Basalla m. fl.

   Häftad, 1994

   487 kr

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   By the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment had become the largest in the world, but very little of its history was known in the West. What has been needed for many years in order to fill that gap in our knowledge is a history of Russian and Soviet science written for the educated person who …

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   The Construction of Modern Science

   Mechanisms and Mechanics

   Av Richard S. Westfall, George Basalla m. fl.

   Häftad, 1978

   373 kr

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   This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the conviction that the cosmos was constructed …

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   The Evolution of Technology

   Av George Basalla, George Basalla m. fl.

   Häftad, 1989

   471 kr

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   This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals …