Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science. In these chapters we are introduced to the psychology of science and of scientists and we learn about Cavendish's life and times. His personality is examined from two perspectives: one is that he had a less severe form of autism, as has been claimed; the other is that he was eccentric and a psychological disorder was absent.
Henry Cavendish lived a life of science, possibly more completely than...
Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most bafflin...
This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. In particular, it scrutinizes epistemic exchanges between producers of the arts and alchemists. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the term laboratorium uniquely referred to workplaces in which 'chemical' operations were performed: smelting, combustion, distillation, dissolution and precipitation. Artisanal workshops equipped with furnaces and fire in which 'chemical' operations were...
This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alche...
This book offers a novel approach to the life and work of Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378 - 1446), teacher of princes and educationalist of Italian Renaissance humanism. The authors examine perspectives created by his students and contemporaries.
This book offers a novel approach to the life and work of Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378 - 1446), teacher of princes and educationalist of It...
This book provides a detailed biography of Qutb al-Din Shirazi, a leading scientist of the 13th century, and clarifies the relationship between his three well-known, but little studied, medieval works on astronomy.
This book provides a detailed biography of Qutb al-Din Shirazi, a leading scientist of the 13th century, and clarifies the relationship between his th...
This volume explores the mathematical character of architectural practice in diverse pre- and early modern contexts. It takes an explicitly interdisciplinary approach, which unites scholarship in early modern architecture with recent work in the history of science, in particular, on the role of practice in the "scientific revolution." As a contribution to architectural history, the volume contextualizes design and construction in terms of contemporary mathematical knowledge, attendant forms of mathematical practice, and relevant social distinctions between the mathematical professions. As...
This volume explores the mathematical character of architectural practice in diverse pre- and early modern contexts. It takes an explicitly interdi...
This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohe Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who were committed to understanding crucial aesthetic components of the art of music, including the standardization of pitch and the implementation of various types of intonations. With a mixture of physics, physiology, and aesthetics, author Erwin Hiebert addresses throughout the book how just intonation came to intersect with the...
This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work ...
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twent...
The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts.
The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act...
This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German universities over time became the theoretical physicist, of equal standing to the experimental physicist. Gustav Kirchhoff, Hermann von Helmholtz, and Max Planck are among the great German theoretical physicists whose work and career are examined in this book.
Physics was then the only natural science in which theoretical work developed into a major teaching and research specialty in its own right. Readers will discover how German physicists...
This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German universities...
