Este libro trata de uno de los instrumentos conceptuales y analíticos más básicos y más importantes inventados por los humanos: el cálculo infinitesimal. Sin él, la historia de la ciencia -lo que en buena medida también quiere decir la historia de la humanidad- habría sido difer…
"This collection of original essays by his former graduate students and colleagues honors Richard S. Westfall, a highly influential scholar in the history of the physical sciences and their relations with religion. The book is divided into three parts that reflect Professor West…
Gathering 49 readings on a variety of topics--science and pseudoscience; rationality, objectivity, and values in science; laws of nature; models of explanation, among others--this anthology introduces students to the often challenging problems examined by major thinkers in the f…
Gathering 49 readings on a variety of topics--science and pseudoscience; rationality, objectivity, and values in science; laws of nature; models of explanation, among others--this anthology introduces students to the often challenging problems examined by major thinkers in the f…
New edition of a reader containing 33 essays (10 new to this update), arranged in sections on science and pseudoscience, the natural and social sciences, explanation and law, theory and observation, confirmation and acceptance, and science and values. Each section begins with an…
The Cambridge history of science
by Lindberg, David C., Porter, Roy, Numbers, Ronald L.
Publisher's description: This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new g…
Contro Galileo: alle origini dell'affaire
Contro Galileo: alle origini dell'affaire
"This parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men focuses on their greatest achievements: Einstein's special theory of relativity and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, the painting that brought art into the twentieth century. When they produced these …