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7 produkter
Science and the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 1985
650 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 …
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 …
Instruments and the Imagination
Av Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman
Häftad, 2014
1318 kr
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Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that …
Instruments and the Imagination
Av Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman
Inbunden, 2016
3066 kr
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Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that …
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Häftad, 2004
561 kr
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One of the most imaginative mathematicians of the nineteenth century, Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) changed the course of modern algebra with his discovery of quaternions in 1843. Although Hamilton's work was largely theoretical, his ideas came to have invaluable practical applications …
Instruments and the Imagination
Av Robert J. Silverman, Thomas L. Hankins
E-bok, 2014
999 kr
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Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that …
Instruments
Av Albert Van Helden, Thomas L. Hankins
Häftad, 1994
290 kr
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Through the ages, scientific instruments have been used not only to advance understanding, but also to advance careers, dazzle audiences and impose standards. These 11 essays take stock of the philosophy of instrumentation and the impact of new instruments in both the physical and life sciences, …
