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Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and early 20th century Germany and Britain
In 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain
Häftad, 1996
552 kr
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The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions concern optics and industry in 19th century Germany; the fourth concerns electric standards in Germany …
Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment
Av K. Gavroglu
Inbunden, 1999
1316 kr
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The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the …
Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century
Av P. Galison, A. Roland
Inbunden, 2000
3061 kr
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All technologies differ from one another. They are as varied as humanity's interaction with the physical world. Even people attempting to do the same thing produce multiple technologies. For example, John H. White discovered more than l 1000 patents in the 19th century for locomotive smokestacks. …
Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers
Av J.M. Steele
Inbunden, 2000
3061 kr
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Eclipses have long been seen as important celestial phenomena, whether as omens affecting the future of kingdoms, or as useful astronomical events to help in deriving essential parameters for theories of the motion of the moon and sun. This is the first book to collect together all presently known …
Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment
Av K. Gavroglu
Häftad, 2001
1316 kr
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The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the …
Leadership and Creativity
A History of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871–1919
Av Dong-Won Kim
Inbunden, 2002
1534 kr
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Historical accounts of successful laboratories often consist primarily of reminiscences by their directors and the eminent people who studied or worked in these laboratories. Such recollections customarily are delivered at the celebration of a milestone in the history of the laboratory, such as the …
New Science and Jesuit Science
Seventeenth Century Perspectives
Av M. Feingold
Inbunden, 2002
1643 kr
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"One cannot talk about mathematics in the 16th and 17th centuries without seeing a Jesuit at every corner," George Sarton observed in 1940. * Sarton, of course, was not the first to recognize the disproportionate representation of members of the Society of Jesus in the scientific enterprise of the …
Reworking the Bench
Research Notebooks in the History of Science
Av F.L. Holmes, J. Renn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1643 kr
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Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself …
Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
Av José Chabás, B.R. Goldstein
Inbunden, 2003
1692 kr
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The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is for historians working in the fields of astronomy, science, the Middle Ages, Spanish and other Romance languages. It is also of interest to scholars interested in the history of Castile, in Castilian-French relations in the Middle Ages and in the history of …
Lenses and Waves
Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical Science of Optics in the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2004
1970 kr
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In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. …
David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898–1918)
From Grundlagen der Geometrie to Grundlagen der Physik
Av L. Corry
Inbunden, 2004
3279 kr
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David Hilbert (1862-1943) was the most influential mathematician of the early twentieth century and, together with Henri Poincaré, the last mathematical universalist. His main known areas of research and influence were in pure mathematics (algebra, number theory, geometry, integral equations and …
Wrong for the Right Reasons
Av Jed Z. Buchwald, A. Franklin
Inbunden, 2005
1098 kr
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The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The …
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
Av Mordechai Feingold, Victor Navarro-Brotons
Inbunden, 2006
1692 kr
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This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on “Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period” held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain. The conference was part of the “Five Centuries of the Life of the University of Valencia” (Cinc Segles) celebrations, and from the outset …
American Scientist on the Research Frontier
Edward Morley, Community, and Radical Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Science
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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An American Scientist on the Research Frontier is the first scholarly study of the nineteenth-century American scientist Edward Williams Morley. In part, it is the long-overdue story of a man who lent his name to the Michelson and Morley Ether-Drift Experiment, and who conclusively established the …
Revisiting Discovery and Justification
Historical and philosophical perspectives on the context distinction
Av Jutta Schickore, Friedrich Steinle
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science. At times celebrated as the hallmark of philosophical approaches to science, at times condemned as ambiguous, distorting, and misleading, the distinction dominated philosophical …
Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:
The Construction of Eighteenth-Century Botanical Illustrations
Inbunden, 2006
1098 kr
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This book is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Bern in thesummerof2002. Researchonthethesiswasmadepossiblethroughagrant provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) from 2000 to 2002 foraprojectonthehistoryandepistemologyofscienti?cillustrations(Project No. …
Frontline and Factory
Comparative Perspectives on the Chemical Industry at War, 1914-1924
Av Roy MacLeod, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Inbunden, 2007
2029 kr
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It has been said that history is a debate between the present and the past about the future. Nowhere are these lines drawn more significantly than in the study of science and war. And nowhere is the discourse more relevant, than in the study of science and technology as foundations and multipliers …
Hermann von Helmholtz’s Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty
A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century’s most important German natural scientists. Among his most well-known contributions to science are the invention of the ophthalmoscope and grou- breaking work towards formulating the law of the conservation of …
New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
Contributions from the First Francis Bacon Workshop, 21-23 April 2005, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Inbunden, 2007
1861 kr
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The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume presents new approaches and …
History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple
Inbunden, 2008
2406 kr
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Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets. The available works either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of physical cometology or portray a …
From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
Av Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein
Inbunden, 2008
3274 kr
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Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact exists. The demand is as easy to make as it is impossible to satisfy. But the true test of an hypothesis, if it …
Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei’s Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders
Inbunden, 2019
1692 kr
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This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun 傷寒九十論) – which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals patterns of social as well as medical history. …
Newton’s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept
Häftad, 2019
1098 kr
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These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton’s work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time. Newton used the concept of “sensorium” in writings intended for a public audience, in relation to both humans and God, but even today there is no consensus about the meaning of his term. …
Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800
I. Medieval Structures (1250-1500): Conceptual, Institutional, Socio-Political, Theologico-Religious and Cultural
Inbunden, 2019
1534 kr
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This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the changing roles of astrology in …
Practicing the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory
A Transformation through Implementation
Inbunden, 2019
1316 kr
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This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective. The author provides a unique exploration of the relation between the practice of theory and conceptual development in physics. In the process, he argues for a new understanding of the history of the old quantum …
Practicing the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory
A Transformation through Implementation
Häftad, 2020
1155 kr
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This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective. The author provides a unique exploration of the relation between the practice of theory and conceptual development in physics. In the process, he argues for a new understanding of the history of the old quantum …
Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period
Inbunden, 2020
1467 kr
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This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding. Indeed, there is hardly a single early modern figure who took a serious interest in one but not the other, …
Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period
Häftad, 2021
1467 kr
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This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding. Indeed, there is hardly a single early modern figure who took a serious interest in one but not the other, …
Princely Pandect on Astronomy
Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Muʿīnīya Epistle and its Appendix
Av Kaveh Niazi
Inbunden, 2022
1467 kr
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This book presents an English-language translation of Risālā-yi Muʿīnīya, or the Muʿīnīya Epistle. Risālā-yi Muʿīnīya is one of the earliest known works of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (1201–1274), an intellectual luminary of the 13th century CE. The work is notable for the choice of Ṭūsī’s native Persian …
Princely Pandect on Astronomy
Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Muʿīnīya Epistle and its Appendix
Av Kaveh Niazi
Häftad, 2023
1467 kr
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This book presents an English-language translation of Risālā-yi Muʿīnīya, or the Muʿīnīya Epistle. Risālā-yi Muʿīnīya is one of the earliest known works of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī (1201–1274), an intellectual luminary of the 13th century CE. The work is notable for the choice of Ṭūsī’s native Persian …
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