Cambridge Studies in the History of Science – serie
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The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts
Av Edward Grant, George Basalla m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
406 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: …
Biology in the Nineteenth Century
Problems of Form, Function and Transformation
Häftad, 1978
373 kr
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The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of subsequent activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of essential themes in this development. To one group of …
Man and Nature in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 1978
846 kr
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Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences …
The Evolution of Technology
Inbunden, 1989
1351 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 …
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 Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Av W. F. Bynum
Häftad, 1994
435 kr
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Prior to the nineteenth century, the practice of medicine in the Western world was as much art as science. But, argues W. F. Bynum, 'modern' medicine as practiced today is built upon foundations that were firmly established between 1800 and the beginning of World War I. He demonstrates this in …
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 …
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 …
Energy, Force and Matter
The Conceptual Development of Nineteenth-Century Physics
Häftad, 1982
357 kr
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By focusing on the conceptual issues faced by nineteenth century physicists, this book clarifies the status of field theory, the ether, and thermodynamics in the work of the period. A remarkably synthetic account of a difficult and fragmentary period in scientific development.
Physical Science in the Middle Ages
Av Edward Grant
Häftad, 1978
373 kr
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This concise introduction to the history of physical science in the Middle Ages begins with a description of the feeble state of early medieval science and its revitalization during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, as evidenced by the explosion of knowledge represented by extensive …
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 …
Man and Nature in the Renaissance
Av Allen George Debus, George Basalla
Häftad, 1978
240 kr
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Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences …
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 …
