Source Books in the History of the Sciences – serie
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From Frege to Gödel
A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879–1931
Häftad, 2002
441 kr
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The fundamental texts of the great classical period in modern logic, some of them never before available in English translation, are here gathered together for the first time. Modern logic, heralded by Leibniz, may be said to have been initiated by Boole, De Morgan, and Jevons, but it was the …
Source Book in Medieval Science
Av Edward Grant
Inbunden, 1974
1917 kr
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Modern scholarship has exposed the intrinsic importance of medieval science and confirmed its role in preserving and transmitting Greek and Arabic achievements. This Source Book offers a rare opportunity to explore more than ten centuries of European scientific thought. In it are approximately 190 …
Source Book in Astronomy, 1900–1950
Inbunden, 1960
1330 kr
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The phenomenal growth of modern astronomy, including the invention of the coronagraph and major developments in telescope design and photographic technique, is unparalleled in many centuries. Theories of relativity, the concept and measurement of the expanding universe, the location of sun and …
Source Book in Chemistry, 1400–1900
Av Henry M. Leicester, Herbert S. Klickstein
Inbunden, 1952
1490 kr
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Source Book in Classical Analysis
Inbunden, 1973
1506 kr
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An understanding of the developments in classical analysis during the nineteenth century is vital to a full appreciation of the history of twentieth-century mathematical thought. It was during the nineteenth century that the diverse mathematical formulae of the eighteenth century were systematized …
Source Book in Geography
Av George Kish
Inbunden, 1978
1370 kr
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This remarkable volume presents a panorama of geographical writings from Hesiod to Humboldt, from the beginnings of geographical thought in the Western world to the emergence of topical specialization. It includes a wealth of material from non-Western sources, particularly Moslem and Chinese, that …
Source Book in Geology, 1900–1950
Inbunden, 1967
2126 kr
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Since 1900, the science of geology has grown in a spectacular fashion. Not only have field studies been undertaken throughout vast areas of the earth’s surface previously unexplored or only superficially surveyed, but recent discoveries in physics, chemistry, and biology have provided geologists …
Source Book in Greek Science
Av Morris R. Cohen, I. E. Drabkin
Inbunden, 1948
1734 kr
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Covering the general fields of mathematics, astronomy, mathematical geography, physics, chemistry and chemical technology, geology and meteorology, biology, medicine, and physiological psychology, the present collection surveys the field of Greek scientific achievement over a thousand-year …
Source Book in Physics
Inbunden, 1935
1684 kr
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This is the reprint of a well-known and valuable work that has been out of print and widely sought for a number of years. A volume in the series Source Books in the History of the Sciences, it consists of selections from the writings of the great physicists from the sixteenth through the nineteenth …
Source Book in the History of Psychology
Av Richard J. Herrnstein, Edwin G. Boring
Inbunden, 1965
1636 kr
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This is a source book unique in its scope, clarity, and general interest. Its 116 excerpts range in time from Epicurus (ca. 300 B.C.) to the turn of the twentieth century and sometimes, when continuity requires, a little beyond (as to K. S. Lashley, 1929). It includes excerpts from Kepler (1604) on …
