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Heisenberg’s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics
Häftad, 2019
605 kr
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This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an endeavour that continues to define …
Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen
David Hilbert, Max Born, and Peter Debye in Context, 1900-1926
Häftad, 2019
825 kr
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Quantum mechanics – the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level – was first formulated in Göttingen in 1925. How did this come about and why is it that Göttingen became the pre-eminent location for a revolution in physics? This book is the first to investigate the …
WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963)
Häftad, 2019
680 kr
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The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the early computer projects, was …
Turbulence Problem
A Persistent Riddle in Historical Perspective
Häftad, 2019
605 kr
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On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the “turbulence problem”. Turbulent flow rose to prominence as one of the most persistent challenges in science. At different times and in different social and disciplinary …
Philosophy and Allotment : John Locke's influence on Henry L. Dawes
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This book provides a new perspective for examining the Native policies of the late nineteenth century. It centers on the figure of Henry Laurens Dawes, and more specifically, on the conceptual roots of his views on allotment, education and assimilation. These roots are grounded in John Locke’s …
Copenhagen Network
The Birth of Quantum Mechanics from a Postdoctoral Perspective
Häftad, 2020
607 kr
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This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor, but of a recent or actual Ph.D. student just embarking on an uncertain academic career in economically hard times. Quantum mechanics exploded on to …
Reassessing Riemann's Paper
On the Number of Primes Less Than a Given Magnitude
Häftad, 2021
771 kr
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In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), a mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc. contributed immensely to mathematical physics. The text concentrates in …
Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists
Av Zdeňka Jastrzembská, Dagmar Pichová m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists. It highlights the lives and achievements of a group that has often not received the recognition they deserve. Chapters provide a systematic description and critical evaluation of the impact these women had on the history …
Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich
Emergence of Arnold Sommerfeld’s Quantum School
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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This book traces the history of Arnold Sommerfeld’s famous “nursery of theoretical physics” at the University of Munich and demonstrates the centrality of developing personal and institutional networks for the emergence of quantum theory. Sommerfeld, originally a mathematician with little interest …
Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin
Einstein and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, 1917–1922
Av Hubert Goenner, Giuseppe Castagnetti
Häftad, 2021
552 kr
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This book explores Albert Einstein’s move to Berlin and the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under his directorship. Einstein’s call to Berlin was supported by a group of prominent physicists, including Fritz Haber, Walter Nernst, Max Planck, Heinrich Rubens, Emil Warburg, …
How to Make a Database in Historical Studies
Häftad, 2021
771 kr
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This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have made of computing since the …
Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements
Between Geometry and Arithmetic
Av Leo Corry
Häftad, 2021
661 kr
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This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the medieval mathematical texts, particularly concerning the interrelations between geometry and arithmetic, and the rise of algebraic modes of thought. It appeals to anyone interested in …
Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India
Häftad, 2021
661 kr
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This book narrates the history of the initiation and development of elementary particle physics in India and by Indians, focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. The thread is taken up with the introduction of Western science into India in the previous century.The contents are a mixture …
Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Steps Towards an Analogy
Häftad, 2022
552 kr
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What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and elementary particle physics cross-fertilise in spite of the widely differing domains and energy scales they deal with? This book addresses the questions …
British Versions of Book II of Euclid’s Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550–1750)
Av Leo Corry
Häftad, 2022
552 kr
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This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in which algebraic symbolism and …
From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War
Av Alison Kraft
Häftad, 2022
341 kr
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This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War. Conceived by western scientists dissenting from their own government’s …
Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics
What the Equations Don’t Say
Häftad, 2023
552 kr
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This book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers who want to keep up to date on front-line scientific research in fluid mechanics and gravitational wave astrophysics will find timely and …
Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963
Häftad, 2023
552 kr
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This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they used the first electronic computer built in Israel, the Weizmann Automatic Computer (WEIZAC), to develop powerful numerical methods that helped achieve new and accurate solutions of …
Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Instruments and the First Bell Tests
Av Climério Paulo da Silva Neto
Häftad, 2023
607 kr
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This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics. It shows how the second world war and cold war fostered the development of materials, instruments, and systems that …
Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period
Häftad, 2023
552 kr
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This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research these topics. Contrary to numerous existing studies on the subject, the author examines elementary education globally, that is, in pursuit of Old …
Explorations and False Trails
The Innovative Techniques That Brought About Modern Algebra
Av Jens Høyrup
Häftad, 2024
552 kr
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This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khwārizmī, Fibonacci's Liber abbaci, Luca Pacioli's …
Galileo and the 1604 Supernova
With a Translation of the "Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene"
Häftad, 2024
552 kr
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This book is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical event in Italy. Only seven Galactic supernovae visible to the naked eye are documented, with the 1604 event, the last in history, profoundly impacting astronomy, cosmology, and culture …
Manuscript Dissemination of Descartes’s Traité de l’homme
With an Edition of the Tractatus de homine a Cartesio
Häftad, 2025
748 kr
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This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosophy and science, namely the Traité de l’homme by René Descartes, completed in 1633 but published in printed form only in 1662 and 1664. This account …
Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)
Häftad, 2025
625 kr
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This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals of Israeli computing history. With the primary setting being the Weizmann Institute of Science, where the genesis of computing in Israel took place, …
Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience
Av Hannah C. Erlwein, Katja Krause
Häftad, 2025
552 kr
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This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways did that experience constitute science? Answering these questions, the …
Galileo and Satellite Navigation
Häftad, 2024
552 kr
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This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context. It bridges the techniques developed by the Greeks and medieval astronomers with later innovations like precision clocks, 20th-century wireless technology, and space-based navigation.The …
Day Laborers of Science. Technical Work at the Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1852–1927)
Häftad, 2025
552 kr
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This book fills a significant gap in the historiography of science by examining the overlooked contributions of non-astronomical personnel in the early National Astronomical Observatory of Chile. Drawing upon David Edgerton's critique of the bias towards academic scientists in historical …
Spinning the Cosmos
Volvelles in the Early Modern Commentary Tradition of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera
Häftad, 2025
443 kr
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This open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books—the so-called “volvelles.” The earliest known volvelles emerged in the mid-thirteenth century and were cut out and …
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
The Founding Document of the Nuclear Age
Häftad, 2025
569 kr
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This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940. Prepared by Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, refugee European physicists then at the University of Birmingham, this 10-page document …
Heisenberg's 1925 "Umdeutung" Paper
A Commented Translation from a Physicist's Perspective
Av Marco Giliberti, Luisa Lovisetti
Häftad, 2025
552 kr
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This book presents a meticulously crafted new translation of Werner Heisenberg’s ground-breaking 1925 paper, widely regarded as the birth “certificate” of quantum mechanics. The translation remains faithful to the original terminology and is accompanied by a particularly detailed, step-by-step …
