Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine – serie
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Pursuing Power and Light
Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
Häftad, 2010
308 kr
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In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics-the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field-were deeply rooted in the new technologies of the steam engine, the telegraph, and electric …
Finding Order in Nature
The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson
Häftad, 2000
418 kr
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Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, …
Transforming Matter
A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball
Häftad, 2001
363 kr
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Chemistry explores the way atoms interact, the constitution of the stars, and the human genome. Knowledge of chemistry makes it possible for us to manufacture dyes and antibiotics, metallic alloys, and other materials that contribute to the necessities and luxuries of human life. In Transforming …
Reconfiguring the World
Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2010
368 kr
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Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the …
Competing with the Soviets
Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Inbunden, 2013
611 kr
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For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history …
Competing with the Soviets
Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Häftad, 2013
340 kr
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For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society before the uncommitted world and history …
Experimenting with Humans and Animals
From Aristotle to CRISPR
Häftad, 2022
355 kr
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Examining the ideas and attitudes that encourage scientists to experiment on living creatures, what their justifications are, and how these have changed over time.Experimentation on animals—particularly humans—is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. But the ideas and attitudes that …
Pursuing Power and Light
Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
Inbunden, 2010
470 kr
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In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics-the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field-were deeply rooted in the new technologies of the steam engine, the telegraph, and electric …
Reconfiguring the World
Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2010
522 kr
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Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the …
Mixing Races
From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas
Häftad, 2011
228 kr
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This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s. In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against …
