History of science Books

Who has decided how Europeans have dressed and dwelled? Traveled and dined? Worked and played? Who, in fact, can be credited with the shaping of Europe? Certainly inventors, engineers, and politicians played their parts. But in the making of Europe,...

Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn...

This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors;...

Series Preface; Robert Jackall & Arthur J.Vidich - Preface; Alfred I.Tauber - Introduction; Alfred I.Tauber - SCIENCE AND ITS WORLD VIEW - The Origins of Modern Science; A.N.Whitehead - The Age of the World Picture; M.Heidegger - THE PROBLEM OF...

Series Editor's Introduction - Foreword; M.Morishima - A Short Biography; A.de Pietri-Tonelli - The Economist; A.de Pietri-Tonelli - Pareto's General Equilibrium Equations; A.de Pietri-Tonelli - Pareto and Socialism; G.H.Bousquet - The Sociologist; G.H...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Old Red Sandstone: Or New Walks In An Old Field is a book written by Hugh Miller, a Scottish geologist, in 1841. The book is a comprehensive study of the Old Red Sandstone geological formation, which is found in Scotland and England. It is considered...

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These essays critically reassess the widely accepted view that statistical methods of analysis can, and do, yield causal understanding of social phenomena. They emphasize the historical, philosophical and conceptual perspectives that underlie and inform...

Scientists often try to understand the world by creating simplified or idealised models of it. And yet modelling is hard to make sense of, not least because it seems to involve learning about things that don't exist, like ideal oscillators or perfect...

This book examines current policy discussions around the migrationdevelopment nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current rediscovery of migrants as agents of development nexus...

Bossut's ""A General History of Mathematics from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century"" is a comprehensive survey of the development of mathematics throughout history. Originally published in 1803, this book traces the evolution of...

Relief From Floods: The Fundamentals Of Flood Prevention, Flood Protection And The Means For Determining Proper Remedies is a book written by John W. Alvord in 1918. The book provides a comprehensive guide on the fundamentals of flood prevention and...

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Science and Christian Tradition Essays is a collection of essays written by Thomas H. Huxley, a prominent 19th-century biologist and advocate for the theory of evolution. The book, first published in 1896, explores the relationship between science and...

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We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and...

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform "algebra" texts, based on a detailed investigation of the terminology and discursive organization of the texts, Jens Høyrup proposes that the traditional interpretation must be...

Quantum Theory, together with the principles of special and general relativity, constitute a scientific revolution that has profoundly influenced the way in which we think about the universe and the fundamental forces that...

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The National Academy of Sciences: Biographical Memoirs V6 (1909) is a book that contains a collection of biographical essays written by various authors about distinguished scientists who were members of the National Academy of Sciences. The book covers...

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""Color Measurement and Mixture"" is a book written by W. De W. Abney and published in 1891. The book is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of color measurement and color mixing. It covers topics such as the properties of light, the color...

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