New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine – serie
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7 produkter
Practical Matter
Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851
Av Margaret C. Jacob, Larry Stewart
Häftad, 2006
314 kr
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Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart examine the profound transformation that began in 1687. From the year when Newton published his Principia to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became central to Western thought and economic development. The book aims at a general audience and …
Resources under Regimes
Technology, Environment, and the State
Häftad, 2006
314 kr
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Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or …
Distilling Knowledge
Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution
Häftad, 2006
303 kr
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Alchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In this book, Bruce Moran looks past contemporary assumptions and prejudices to determine what alchemists were actually doing in the context of early modern science. …
Cultural History of Modern Science in China
Häftad, 2009
314 kr
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Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the …
Discovery of Global Warming
Revised and Expanded Edition
Häftad, 2008
269 kr
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The award-winning book is now revised and expanded.In 2001 an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human …
Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons
Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
Häftad, 2009
315 kr
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From the beginning, Darwin’s dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal …
Duel at Dawn
Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
Häftad, 2011
279 kr
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In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Évariste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another.Arguing that not even the purest mathematics can be separated …
