History of science Books

The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour V1, Part 2 is a book written by Francis Maitland Balfour and published in 1885. The book is part of a series of works by the author and focuses on various topics related to biology and natural history. The second...

""Von der Natur: Ein Lehrgedicht in sechs B�����chern"" ist ein Gedicht von Titus Lucretius Carus aus dem Jahr 1795. Das Werk ist eine Darstellung der Naturphilosophie und der Lehren des Epikureismus. In sechs B�����chern beschreibt der Autor die...

Le livre ""Syst�����me G�����n�����ral de Philosophie V1: Extrait des Ouvrages de Descartes et de Newton (1769)"" �����crit par Aim����� Henri Paulian est une compilation d'extraits des �����uvres de deux grands philosophes, Ren����� Descartes et Isaac...

Symbolae Litterariae Opuscula Varia V3: Philologica, Scientifica Antiquaria (1752) est opus litterarium auctore Antonio Francesco Gori. In hoc opere, Gori varia opuscula continet, quae omnia pertinent ad disciplinas humanitatis. In primis, opuscula...

""Rudolph. August. Vogel Historia Materiae Medicae: Ad Novissima Tempora Producta (1774)"" est liber qui tractat de materia medica, scriptus a Rudolpho Augustino Vogel. In hoc libro, Vogel describit plantas, animalia, et mineralia quae ad usum...

Le livre intitul����� ""Recherches sur les causes particuli�����res des ph�����nom�����nes �����lectriques, et sur les effets nuisibles ou avantageux qu'on peut en attendre"" a �����t����� �����crit par Jean Antoine Nollet en 1754. Dans cet ouvrage,...

Refutation De La Theorie Pneumatique, Ou De La Nouvelle Doctrine Des Chimistes Modernes (1796) est un livre �����crit par Jean Baptiste Lamarck. Il s'agit d'une critique de la th�����orie pneumatique, ou de la nouvelle doctrine des chimistes modernes,...

Opuscula Physica et Chemica V2: Pleraque Seorsim Antea Edita est liber qui scriptus est a Bergman, Torbern anno 1780. Liber hic continet plura opuscula physica et chemica, quae antea separatim edita fuerunt. Bergman, qui fuit physicus et chemista...

This book offers a unique account on the life and works of Srinivasa Ramanujan-often hailed as the greatest "natural" mathematical genius. Sharing valuable insights into the many stages of Ramanujan's life, this book provides glimpses into his prolific...

This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and the landmark events in the history of science and technology in 20th century China. It also provides new insights to help us...

This work embarks on a grand survey of history, archaeology, and modern physics, re-examining the past through the lens of quantum mechanics and the multiverse. It challenges the traditional linear view of time, exploring anomalies in the archaeological...

En este libro cubriremos la historia de las matemáticas.Desde Euler a Newton, desde Galileo a Einstein, cubriremos todo lo relacionado con la historia que creó las matemáticas modernas.Descubriremos secretos y matemáticas...

"The World's Greatest Book (Science)" explores into the peak of scientific ideas. From Darwin's "The Origin of Species" to Galileo's "Dialogues on the System of the World," explore the fundamental texts that have affected our understanding of nature and...

The International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is a new initiative to promote explicitly researches and publications in the field of the History of TMM (Theory of Machines and Mechanisms). It was held at the...

In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times. Deeply learned in...

How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become...

Since the origin of the modern sciences, our views on discovery and creativity had a remarkable history. Originally, discovery was seen as an integral part of methodology and the logic of discovery as algorithmic or nearly algorithmic. During the...

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge...

SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties...

Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive 'assessment hype,' unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions...

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris. Beginning his career as a violin maker, in 1858 the young Prussian immigrant shifted his talents towards...

Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective...

Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to human events as a whole in order to highlight some significant...

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This...

This is the second volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect c- tributed papers within a framework that can serve as a collection of persons in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). This is a continuation of the first volume that was...

We live in an age in which one can easily think that our generation has invented and discovered almost everything; but the truth is quite the opposite. Progress cannot be considered as sudden unexpected spurts of individual...

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, 1962-1964

Diagnostic paleoradiology is the use of X-ray studies to detect ancient diseases. The broad range of themes and imaging techniques in this volume reflects four decades of research undertaken by Don Brothwell in anthropology, human paleopathology, and...

This book offers an easy to read, all-embracing history of thermodynamics. It describes the long development of thermodynamics, from the misunderstood and misinterpreted to the conceptually simple and extremely useful theory...

Ein Buch zum 100-jährigen Bestehen des Laboratoriums für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebslehre der RWTH Aachen, kurz Werkzeugmaschinenlabor (WZL) genannt. Ausführlich beschreibt es die Entwicklungsgeschichte von der kleinen...

This fascinating portrait of an amateur astronomy movement tells the story of how Charles Olivier recruited a hard-working cadre of citizen scientists to rehabilitate the study of meteors. By 1936, Olivier and members of his American Meteor...

This book comprises a fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectively offer the first survey on historical large refracting telescopes in the country, drawing on original documents and photographs. It opens with...

Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world's recent past. In addition to a detailed description of the diverse...

This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence gathering, environmental surveillance, the identification of 'enemy science',...

While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian...

This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of "vital force," starting from the...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Edmund Burke's historical thought, a neglected area of both Burke scholarship and historiography. Ranging from Burke's general conception of history to his accounts of English, European, American, Irish and...

This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the...

This book reveals the ever-present challenges of patient care at the forefront of medical knowledge. Syphilis and gonorrhoea played upon the public imagination in Victorian and Edwardian England, inspiring fascination and fear. Seemingly inextricable...

This book provides the only critical edition and English translation of Maḥmūd al-Jaghmīnī's al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa al-basīṭa, the most widely circulated Arabic treatise on Ptolemaic astronomy ever written. Composed in the early 13th century,...

This volume collects reflections on the role of philosophy in case studies in the history of science. Case studies have played a prominent role in recent history and philosophy of science. They have been used to illustrate, question, explore, or...