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In this spellbinding account of an historic but troubled orbital mission, noted space historian Colin Burgess takes us back to an electrifying time in American history, when intrepid pioneers were launched atop notoriously unreliable rockets at the very dawn of human space explo…
From Summetria to Symmetry: The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
by Gray, Jeremy, Grafton, Anthony, Feingold, Mordechai, Principe, Lawrence, Renn, Jürgen, Newman, William, Shapiro, Alan, Hon, Giora, Goldstein, Bernard R., Roland, Alex, Buchwald, Jed Z., Bos, Henk, Franklin, Allan D., Gavroglu, Kostas, Kingsland, Sharon, Levere, Trevor, Lützen, Jesper, Siraisi, Nancy, Swerdlow, Noel
fromArchimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Sc…
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Hermann Haken (born 1927) is one of the "fathers" of the quantum-mechanical laser theory, formulated between 1962 and 1966, in strong competition with American researchers. Later on, he created Synergetics, the science of cooperation in multicomponent systems. The book concentra…
The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition: Science, Logic, Epistemology and their Interactio…
by Priest, Graham, Hintikka, Jaakko, Benthem, Johan, Street, Tony, Symons, John, Rahman, Shahid, Rahman, Shahid, Wansing, Heinrich, Tahiri, Hassan, Bendegem, Jean Paul, Dubucs, Jacques, Fagot-Largeault, Anne, Fraassen, Bas, Gabbay, Dov, Lambert, Karel, Sandu, Gabriel, Williamson, Timothy
fromLogic, epistemology and the unity of science
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This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts. The search for oil for industrial uses began in the nineteenth century, the first drills made in Azerbaijan and the United States.…
This book is an enthusiastic account of Pierre Laszlo's life and pioneering work on catalysis of organic reactions by modified clays, and his reflections on doing science from the 1960s to 1990s. In this autobiography, readers will discover a first-hand testimony of the chemical…
The First Edition of the book is a collection of articles, all by the author, on the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan as well as on some of the greatest mathematicians in history whose life and works have things in common with Ramanujan. It presents a unique compar…
The first of its kind, this book traces the evolution of motion picture technology in its entirety. Beginning with Huygens' magic lantern and ending in the current electronic era, it explains cinema's scientific foundations and the development of parallel enabling technologies a…
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Has anyone ever seen with their own eyes that the Earth goes around the sun? Even to this day, no one has. However, 500 and even 2000 years ago, some astronomers managed to point out that this is the case. At that time, people's range of activities was strictly confined, the tec…
This book, in its first part, contains units of conceptual history of several topics of physics based on the research in physics education and research based articles with regard to several topics involved in teaching science in general and physics in particular. The second part…
This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia. As color is the perception of light by our brains, the book captures not only the physical phenomena but also psychological and philosophic…
The astonishing accounts of almost modern technological achievements found in the Homeric Epics constitute one of the so-called Homeric Issues. The question is whether such achievements existed in reality or whether they were just poetic conceptions. Both views have their follow…