Kategoria BISAC: Science >> History

Wer Wissenschaft verstehen will, sollte die Menschen kennen, die sie zustande bringen, und erfahren, warum ihnen bei ihrem Bemühen nicht alles gelingen kann.

Um einer Reihe von Biographien berühmter Forscherinnen und Forscher eine besondere Note zu geben, führt Ernst Peter Fischer deshalb die Großen an ihre Grenze und stellt neben ihren Leistungen auch die Aufgaben vor, an denen sie gescheitert oder verzweifelt sind. Genauso wie Albert Einstein bei der Frage "Was ist Licht?" nie eine zufriedenstellende Antwort geben konnte, misslang Francis Cricks Versuch, seinen Triumph beim...

This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This study details the importance of this new technology to Romantic authors, primarily English Romantic poets. It combines accounts of the exploits and experiences of early balloonists with references to Romantic texts, using ballooning lore to illuminate a range of Romantic writings. The balloonists are seen as not just supplying these writers...

This book provides a collection of chapters on the development of scientific philosophy and symbolic logic in the early twentieth century. The turn of the last century was a key transitional period for the development of symbolic logic and scientific philosophy. The Peano school, the editorial board of the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, and the members of the Vienna Circle are generally mentioned as champions of this transformation of the role of logic in mathematics and in the sciences. The scholarship contained provides a rich historical and philosophical understanding of...

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho and Sophie Germain to Stebbing and Evelyn Fox Keller, this work ultimately demonstrates the impact these non-canonical, sometimes unknown or hidden, sources had, or may have had, on the recognized male leaders in their fields, from Aristotle to Pascal, Kant, Whitehead, and Russell. Chapters reflect philosophical pluralism, both analytic and continental themes, and cover figures reaching across the entire history of ideas in the West, from...