Charles Blacker Vignoles: Romantic Engineer
ISBN: 9780521239301 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793 1875) has been somewhat overshadowed by his contemporaries, the Stephensons, Brunel and Locke. Yet from 1825 to 1870, he was continually involved in the field of civil engineering in the UK, Ireland and overseas. Among his achievements were the Tudela and Bilbao Railway in northern Spain, and the suspension bridge spanning the River Dnieper at Kiev, Russia, which at the time of its completion was one of the largest bridges of its kind in the world. This account, originally published in 1982, is based on a close study of original records, including a large volume...
Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793 1875) has been somewhat overshadowed by his contemporaries, the Stephensons, Brunel and Locke. Yet from 1825 to 1870, h...
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International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950
ISBN: 9781576070901 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive biographical guide to the scientific achievements, personal lives, and struggles of women scientists from around the globe.
A comprehensive biographical guide to the scientific achievements, personal lives, and struggles of women scientists from around the globe.
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Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
ISBN: 9781118299265 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively, fascinating biography of the father of quantum mechanics by the bestselling author of the science classic, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat
Erwin Schrodinger, best known for his famous "Schrodinger's Cat" paradox, is one of the most famous physicists of the early twentieth century and a member of a new generation of quantum physicists, including Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and Niels Bohr. Yet Schrodinger's scientific discoveries only scratch the surface of what makes him so fascinating. More rumpled than Einstein, a devotee of eastern religion and philosophy, and... A lively, fascinating biography of the father of quantum mechanics by the bestselling author of the science classic, In Search of Schrodinger's ...
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Handbuch Nietzsche und die Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783110285789 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nietzsche ist trotz seiner selbst attestieren Unzeitgemaheit auch ein Kind seiner Zeit. Seine Philosophie entsteht im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts, der Zeit des rasanten Aufstiegs der Naturwissenschaften als Instrumente der praktischen und theoretischen Gestaltung der Welt. Wahrend die Naturwissenschaften zunehmend an kultureller Hegemonie gewinnen, ringen die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften um ein entsprechendes disziplinares Selbstverstandnis, aber in allen Feldern zeigt sich eine bemerkenswerte Dynamik. Diese Entwicklungen ziehen massive weltanschauliche Auseinandersetzungen nach... Nietzsche ist trotz seiner selbst attestieren Unzeitgemaheit auch ein Kind seiner Zeit. Seine Philosophie entsteht im Kontext des 19. Jahrhunderts,... |
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Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky
ISBN: 9781461445951 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky begins with the theories of Aristotle and Archimedes, moving on to examine the work of Froude and Taylor, the early aviators and the Wright Brothers, Goddard and the other rocket men, and the computational fluid dynamic models of our time. It examines the ways each used fluid dynamic principles in the design of their vessels. In the process, this book covers the history of hydrodynamic (aero and fluid) theory and its progression - with some very accessible science examples - including seminal...
Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky begins with the theories of Aristotle and Archimedes, mov...
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Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010
ISBN: 9789400724440 / Angielski / Twarda / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume portray the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, suggesting some reassessment of what it means both historically and conceptually. As such it includes a wide range of material, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies, and it is divided fairly evenly...
Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the domina...
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The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
ISBN: 9780226304427 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor. Sound implausible? Well, from 1950 until the late 1970s, a huge number of people begged to differ, as they devoured Immanuel Velikovsky's major best-seller, Worlds in Collision, insisting that perhaps this polymathic thinker held the key to a new science and a new history. Scientists, on...
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth,...
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Air's Appearance: Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660-1794
ISBN: 9780226476698 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Air s Appearance," Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds."Air s Appearance "links the emergence of literary atmosphere to changing ideas about air and the earth s atmosphere in natural philosophy, as well as to the era s theories of the supernatural and fascination with social manners or, as...
In "Air s Appearance," Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how dive...
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Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Critical Edition
ISBN: 9780226865065 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The discoveries amassed by Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering, and much of today's knowledge of tropical zoology, botany, geography, and geology can be traced back to Humboldt's numerous records of these expeditions. One of these accounts, Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the...
In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip...
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Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800
ISBN: 9789400752153 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as questions of form and genre. Particular attention is paid to the contexts in which letters were composed, sent, read, distributed, and then destroyed, copied or printed, in periods of religious tolerance or persecution. The opening section, Protestant identities, examines the importance of letters in...
The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-...
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Fundamenta Nova Theoriae Functionum Ellipticarum
ISBN: 9781108052009 / Łaciński / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804 51) was one of the nineteenth century's greatest mathematicians, as attested by the diversity of mathematical objects named after him. His early work on number theory had already attracted the attention of Carl Friedrich Gauss, but his reputation was made by his work on elliptic functions. Elliptic integrals had been studied for a long time, but in 1827 Jacobi and Niels Henrik Abel realised independently that the correct way to view them was by means of their inverse functions what we now call the elliptic functions. The next few years witnessed a flowering of...
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804 51) was one of the nineteenth century's greatest mathematicians, as attested by the diversity of mathematical objects n...
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography
ISBN: 9781461277521 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A great difficulty facing a biographer of Cauchy is that of delineating the curious interplay between the man, his times, and his scientific endeavors. Professor Belhoste has succeeded admirably in meeting this challenge and has thus written a vivid biography that is both readable and informative. His subject stands out as one of the most brilliant, versatile, and prolific fig ures in the annals of science. Nearly two hundred years have now passed since the young Cauchy set about his task of clarifying mathematics, extending it, applying it wherever possible, and placing it on a firm...
A great difficulty facing a biographer of Cauchy is that of delineating the curious interplay between the man, his times, and his scientific endeavors...
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Smoking, Personality, and Stress: Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease
ISBN: 9781461287711 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is often suggested that the incidence of cancer and coronary heart disease could be much reduced or even eliminated if only people would stop smoking cigarettes and eat fewer high-cholesterol foods. The evidence, however, shows that such views are simplistic and unrealistic and that, instead, cancer and CHD are the product of many risk factors acting synergistically. Psychosocial factors (stress, personality) are six times as predictive as smoking, cholesterol level or blood pressure and much more responsive to prophylactic treatment. This book admits that, while smoking is a risk factor...
It is often suggested that the incidence of cancer and coronary heart disease could be much reduced or even eliminated if only people would stop smoki...
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Modern Geometry--Methods and Applications: Part III: Introduction to Homology Theory
ISBN: 9781461287919 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past fifteen years, the geometrical and topological methods of the theory of manifolds have as- sumed a central role in the most advanced areas of pure and applied mathematics as well as theoretical physics. The three volumes of Modern Geometry - Methods and Applications contain a concrete exposition of these methods together with their main applications in mathematics and physics. This third volume, presented in highly accessible languages, concentrates in homology theory. It contains introductions to the contemporary methods for the calculation of homology groups and the...
Over the past fifteen years, the geometrical and topological methods of the theory of manifolds have as- sumed a central role in the most advanced are...
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Nondifferentiable Optimization
ISBN: 9781461382706 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of recent coinage, the term "nondifferentiable optimization" (NDO) covers a spectrum of problems related to finding extremal values of nondifferentiable functions. Problems of minimizing nonsmooth functions arise in engineering applications as well as in mathematics proper. The Chebyshev approximation problem is an ample illustration of this. Without loss of generality, we shall consider only minimization problems. Among nonsmooth minimization problems, minimax problems and convex problems have been studied extensively ( 31], 36], 57], 110], 120]). Interest in NDO has been constantly...
Of recent coinage, the term "nondifferentiable optimization" (NDO) covers a spectrum of problems related to finding extremal values of nondifferentiab...
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The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy
ISBN: 9781107407282 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing how it influenced the contemporary treatment of traditional philosophical questions, it also demonstrates how philosophical presuppositions about mechanism, substance, and cause informed the interpretations offered by those conducting empirical research on animal reproduction. Composed of cutting-edge essays written by an international team of leading scholars, the book offers a fresh perspective on some of the basic problems in early modern...
This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing h...
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Industrial Enlightenment: Science, Technology and Culture in Birmingham and the West Midlands 1760-1820
ISBN: 9780719089121 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers...
Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industria...
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90,09 zł |
Sir James Dewar, 1842-1923: A Ruthless Chemist
ISBN: 9781409406136 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875a "1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (1877a "1923) and is remembered principally for his efforts to liquefy hydrogen successfully in the field that would come to be known as cryogenics. His experiments in this field led him to develop the vacuum flask, now more commonly known as the thermos, and in 1898 he was the first person to successfully liquefy hydrogen. A man of many interests, he was also, with...
Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambri...
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Geisteswissenschaften: Vorträge - G 286
ISBN: 9783531072869 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 31 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "310. Sitzung am 18. Mearz 1987 in Deusseldorf"--T.p. verso.
"310. Sitzung am 18. Mearz 1987 in Deusseldorf"--T.p. verso.
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Album of a Scientific World: The University of Louvain Around 1900
ISBN: 9789058678034 / Holenderski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around 1900, the Louvain photographer Edouard Morren made a unique photo report of the buildings comprising the University of Louvain. The 78 photographs were bound in a luxurious album, which is now preserved at the Louvain university archives. This new edition reproduces the numerous views of the most important sites of the university as well as photos of interiors that had never been documented before. A special focus is on the various laboratory facilities, that testify to the emerging scientific tradition of the university. The complete text is published in both English and... Around 1900, the Louvain photographer Edouard Morren made a unique photo report of the buildings comprising the University of Louvain. The 78 photo... |
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184,10 zł |