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32 produkter
Secrets of Alchemy
Häftad, 2015
214 kr
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In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and culture. By surveying what alchemy was and how it began, developed, and overlapped with a range of …
TVs of Tomorrow
How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs
Inbunden, 2018
385 kr
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In 1968 a team of scientists and engineers from RCA announced the creation of a new form of electronic display that relied upon an obscure set of materials known as liquid crystals. At a time when televisions utilized bulky cathode ray tubes to produce an image, these researchers demonstrated how …
Experimental Fire
Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice.In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard …
Recombinant University
Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology
Av Doogab Yi
Inbunden, 2015
374 kr
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The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's The Recombinant University draws us deeply into the academic community in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the technology was …
Life Atomic
A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
Häftad, 2015
324 kr
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After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government's …
Experimental Self
Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
Av Jan Golinski
Inbunden, 2016
297 kr
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What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest …
Genentech
The Beginnings of Biotech
Inbunden, 2011
308 kr
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In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate …
Inventing Chemistry
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Häftad, 2016
255 kr
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In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is …
Membranes to Molecular Machines
Active Matter and the Remaking of Life
Inbunden, 2019
417 kr
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Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microscopic "channels" open and close in our brain cell membranes; when we run, tiny "motors" spin in our muscle cell membranes; and when we see, light operates …
Gems and the New Science
Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 2026
520 kr
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The first book-length history of gems in early modern science offers a thought-provoking new take on the Scientific Revolution. In Gems and the New Science, Michael Bycroft argues that gems were connected to major developments in the “new science” between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. As …
Life and Science of Harold C. Urey
Inbunden, 2019
271 kr
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Harold C. Urey (1893-1981) was one of the most famous American scientists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium and heavy water, Urey later participated in the Manhattan Project and NASA's lunar exploration program. In this, the first ever …
Inventing Chemistry
Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Inbunden, 2012
852 kr
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In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is …
Transmutations of Chymistry
Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale Des Sciences
Inbunden, 2020
442 kr
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This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scientific body. By charting Homberg's remarkable life …
Medical Monopoly
Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
Häftad, 2020
324 kr
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During most of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized from the medical community. In the decades …
Rainbow Palate
How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food
Inbunden, 2020
425 kr
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We live in a world saturated by chemicals--our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform the western world. Originally intended for …
Lady Ranelagh
The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister
Inbunden, 2021
489 kr
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For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patroness of the European correspondence network now …
Poison Trials
Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
Inbunden, 2021
1136 kr
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In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a …
Poison Trials
Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
Häftad, 2021
430 kr
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In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived—the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a …
Arts of the Microbial World
Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan
Av Victoria Lee
Inbunden, 2021
485 kr
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The first in-depth study of Japanese fermentation science in the twentieth century.The Arts of the Microbial World explores the significance of fermentation phenomena, both as life processes and as technologies, in Japanese scientific culture. Victoria Lee’s careful study documents how Japanese …
Unrefined
How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar
Inbunden, 2025
315 kr
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A surprising look at how modern capitalism changed sugar from a natural food to a scientific commodity.Sugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other modern maladies. Our addiction to sweetness has a long and unsavory history. Over the past five …
Fifth Business
A Life of the Chemist and Educationist Henry Edward Armstrong
Inbunden, 2025
391 kr
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A biography of Henry Edward Armstrong, an underappreciated maverick in the history of chemistry. Fifth Business is a biography of the English chemist, educator, and scientific critic Henry Edward Armstrong. Today, Armstrong, who was a central figure in the development of the science of chemistry …
Crafting Medicine
Artisans, Knowledge, and the Common Man in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Books on Surgery and Distillation
Inbunden, 2025
1018 kr
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How an early modern surgeon and his accessible writings changed medical expertise and the communication of medical knowledge. Between 1497 and 1512, Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1530), an obscure craftsman from Strasbourg, wrote books on surgery and pharmacy that transformed medical …
Crafting Medicine
Artisans, Knowledge, and the Common Man in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Books on Surgery and Distillation
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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How an early modern surgeon and his accessible writings changed medical expertise and the communication of medical knowledge. Between 1497 and 1512, Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1530), an obscure craftsman from Strasbourg, wrote books on surgery and pharmacy that transformed medical …
Rainbow Palate
How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food
Häftad, 2025
297 kr
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Shows how the widespread use of food dyes influenced understanding of food, science, and technology, as well as trust in science.We live in a world saturated by chemicals—our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth …
Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign
Av E. C. Spary
Inbunden, 2027
1018 kr
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The first full-length history of drugs during the first French Empire.Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign is the story of how the French came to know and consume new non-European plants between 1660 and 1730, a period during which many exotic substances—like coffee, tea, cinchona bark, chocolate, …
Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign
Av E. C. Spary
Häftad, 2027
403 kr
Kommande
The first full-length history of drugs during the first French Empire.Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign is the story of how the French came to know and consume new non-European plants between 1660 and 1730, a period during which many exotic substances—like coffee, tea, cinchona bark, chocolate, …
Constructing Modern Chemistry
J. B. Dumas and the French Atom
Inbunden, 2027
1476 kr
Kommande
A history of chemical atomic theory that centers on France and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, yielding new perspectives on the origins of modern chemistry.Constructing Modern Chemistry examines the early history of the chemical atomic theory, focusing on France. Rather than beginning with John Dalton and the …
Constructing Modern Chemistry
J. B. Dumas and the French Atom
Häftad, 2027
448 kr
Kommande
A history of chemical atomic theory that centers on France and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, yielding new perspectives on the origins of modern chemistry.Constructing Modern Chemistry examines the early history of the chemical atomic theory, focusing on France. Rather than beginning with John Dalton and the …
Limits of Matter
Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment
Av Hjalmar Fors
Inbunden, 2015
385 kr
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic, and miraculous transformations and instead …
Pure Intelligence
The Life of William Hyde Wollaston
Inbunden, 2015
352 kr
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William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the physiology of binocular vision, among others. Along …
