History of Science and Medicine Library – serie
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Salt of the Earth
Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750
Inbunden, 2007
2544 kr
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Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. No reliable study on this subject has been …
Cognition and Recognition: On the Origin of Movement
Rademaker (1887-1957): A Biography
Inbunden, 2008
2700 kr
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This book throws a penetrating light on the life and work of the physiologist turned neurologist G.G.J. Rademaker against the background of flourishing clinical research in the Netherlands of the early twentieth century. It charts the rise and fall of the branch of experimental neurophysiology of …
Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin
Inbunden, 2008
2620 kr
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Although ancient and medieval doctors knew of the disorder called diabetes, the disease they treated was rare and largely confined to young sufferers. By the late Renaissance, however, the increasing incidence of diabetes in older adults required a re-examination of what caused the malady and how …
Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture
A Cross-Disciplinary Comparison
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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The design, construction and verification of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in architecture and ship geometry have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. Before science-based structural design and analysis were applied in the construction industries, i.e., …
Care of Brute Beasts
A Social and Cultural Study of Veterinary Medicine in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2009
1946 kr
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This book is about medical beliefs and practices for animals in early modern England. Although there are numerous texts on human health, this is the first to focus exclusively on animals during this period. For most academics, the foundation of the London Veterinary College in 1791 marks the …
Discovering the Ice Ages
International Reception and Consequences for a Historical Understanding of Climate
Inbunden, 2013
3130 kr
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Tobias Krüger explores the discovery of the Ice Ages, how the idea was received, and what further research it stimulated. The approach used in Discovering the Ice Ages is uniquely sweeping. The contemporary debates on the subject are compared from an international perspective. Krüger retraces the …
Elegant Anatomy
The Eighteenth-Century Leiden Anatomical Collections
Inbunden, 2014
2472 kr
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In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical collections may seem …
Enigma of the Origin of Portolan Charts
A Geodetic Analysis of the Hypothesis of a Medieval Origin
Av Roel Nicolai
Inbunden, 2016
3721 kr
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The sudden appearance of portolan charts, realistic nautical charts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, at the end of the thirteenth century is one of the most significant occurrences in the history of cartography. Using geodetic and statistical analysis techniques these charts are shown to be …
Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer
The Historic Work and Lives of Elizabeth Cavert Miller and James A. Miller
Inbunden, 2015
874 kr
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The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer is an account of how a married couple opened understanding of environmental carcinogenesis. Elizabeth Cavert and James A. Miller showed that enzymes of the human body activate and enable otherwise benign organic chemicals to combine with DNA …
Astronomical System of Aristotle
An Interpretation
Av Gerardo Botteri, Roberto Casazza
Inbunden, 2023
2476 kr
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This book shows that a rigorous study of Aristotle’s Metaphysics is not simply an exercise in the history of astronomy, but constitutes a broad inquiry into our germinal ideas about speed, motion, and the spherical nature of celestial entities, as well as the relation between theology and …
'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse'
Equine Medicine in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2013
2579 kr
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'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse' is the first complete text to focus exclusively on the health and illness of the most important animals in early modern England. It also follows on and further develops the subject of early modern veterinary medicine introduced by Louise Hill Curth in …
