La strana storia della luce e del colore
The practice of theoretical curiosity
by Zuss, Mark
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This book tells the story of how thinkers, over time, have dared to explore using experimental devices and how the experimental method established itself and took a predominant role in the life sciences. While life sciences continue to advance and knowledge becomes more widespre…
Conceived as a series of more or less autonomous essays, the present book critically exposes the initial developments of continuum thermo-mechanics in a post Newtonian period extending from the creative works of the Bernoullis to the First World war, i.e., roughly during first t…
Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought. In part this is due to the previously restricted textual basis of editions such as those produced by Gerhardt. Through …
This abridged and revised edition of the original book (Springer-Verlag Vienna, 2001) offers the only comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle based on new sources with an innovative historiographical approach to the study of science. With reference to previo…
Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before. At a time when the sciences were not yet as well established in…
This book presents a comprehensive history of the many contributions the Jesuits made to science from their founding to the present. It also links the Jesuits dedication to science with their specific spirituality which tries to find God in all things. The book begins with Chris…
This book explores how successful the various tenets of economic thought have been in prognosticating or remedying economic crises. Examining key episodes in economic history, from famines in antiquity to present-day financial collapse, the author finds that several theories fai…
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…
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
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.…