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Science and Society 1600-1900
ISBN: 9780521077279 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most books on the history of science have been internal' in their scope and objectives - plotting progress within different branches of science as the frontiers of knowledge about formal scientific relationships get pushed back by intellectual advance. The history of science is thus seen primarily as a record of progressive intellectual discovery at the hands of individual genius. What might be called the 'external relations' of science - investigating the impact of scientific knowledge upon its wider historical context (and the impact of that context upon the development of science) - has...
Most books on the history of science have been internal' in their scope and objectives - plotting progress within different branches of science as the...
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192,55 |
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Science in the Making: 1850-1900
ISBN: 9780748406425 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A celebration, in four volumes, of the bicentenary of the "Philosophical Magazine", covering the history of scientific development as chronicled in its pages. Volume Two 1851-1900 reproduces many celebrated papers of Davy, Faraday and Joule.
A celebration, in four volumes, of the bicentenary of the "Philosophical Magazine", covering the history of scientific development as chronicled in it...
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1126,48 |
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Science in the Making: Volume Four - 1950-1998
ISBN: 9780748407675 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume covers the history of scientific development from 1950 to the present day. It provides an overview of the major scientific breakthroughs of the day, putting them firmly in the context of their time.
This volume covers the history of scientific development from 1950 to the present day. It provides an overview of the major scientific breakthroughs o...
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1077,50 |
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The Subtle Beast: Snakes, from Myth to Medicine
ISBN: 9780415284974 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Subtle Beast: Snakes, from Myth to Medicine introduces you to the complex and absorbing world of these mysterious creatures. Each of the fourteen chapters in this volume can be read independently, but read together they trace a fascinating journey from the macroscopic features of snakes to the molecular description of their venom components.
The first three chapters detail how snakes inspired fear and worship, served as sources of medicine, and represented good and evil throughout the ages. The remaining sections describe much of the scientific work that has eroded these supernatural... The Subtle Beast: Snakes, from Myth to Medicine introduces you to the complex and absorbing world of these mysterious creatures. Each of the fourteen ...
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538,76 |
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Historical and Philosophical P
ISBN: 9782881243509 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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244,84 |
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Science and Technology in the
ISBN: 9782881243820 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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303,61 |
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The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology
ISBN: 9783718659067 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century, however only a fraction of historical scholarship has dealt with this period.
More than ninety percent of all scientific history has been made during the last half century, however only a fraction of historical scholarship has d...
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710,17 |
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Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite
ISBN: 9789057026232 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also examines the formation of NASA, the race for human exploration of the moon, the reality of global satellite communications, and a new generation of scientific spacecraft that began exploring the universe. An introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Walter A. McDougall sets the context for Sputnik and its significance at the end of the twentieth century.
This book explores Russia's stunning success of ushering in the space age by launching Sputnik and beating the United States into space. It also exami...
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710,17 |
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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780750303910 / Angielski / Twarda / 1144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Volume Two contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682 to the spring of 1703. A leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. Some of these exchanges involved established correspondents, chiefly Newton and Wallis, but members of a younger generation, such as Stephen Gray, William Derham, and Abraham Sharp, appear with increasing frequency,...
The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Volume Two contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682 to the s...
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710,17 |
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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal: Volume 3
ISBN: 9780750307635 / Angielski / Twarda / 1038 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Correspondence of John Flamsteed discusses this leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, presents his extensive correspondence with 129 British and foreign scholars all over the world, and touches on many of the scientific discussions of the day. This book, the last volume of the set, contains his letters from number 901 to 1515.
The Correspondence of John Flamsteed discusses this leading figure in the final phases of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, presents his ...
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2693,75 |
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The Correspondence of John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal - 3 Volume Set
ISBN: 9780750308199 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Three Volume Set explores the work of Flamsteed through his letters.
The first volume serves as an essential guide to the exciting developments in scientific thinking that occurred during the seventeenth century by supplementing the published correspondence of Isaac Newton and Henry Oldenburg. It will be an invaluable research tool, not only for historians of astronomy, but also for researchers examining how scientific thought developed. The second volume contains the letters Flamsteed wrote and received from June 1682... The Correspondence of John Flamsteed: The First Astronomer Royal, Three Volume Set explores the work of Flamsteed through his letters.
The first v... |
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1812,16 |
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Science and Empire in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780415961271 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.... Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientifi... |
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205,65 |
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The Scientific Revolution
ISBN: 9780415474832 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view during the period was affected by broader historical terms.
This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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710,17 |
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Soviet Science
ISBN: 9780393335248 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,44 |
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The Physics of Duns Scotus: The Scientific Context of a Theological Vision
ISBN: 9780198269748 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Duns Scotus, along with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the three most talented and influential of the medieval schoolmen, and a highly original and creative thinker. This book contains detailed discussion and analysis of Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter; the structure of material substance; mass; the nature of space, time, and motion; quantitative and qualitative change; and the various sorts of unity which can be exhibited by different kinds of whole.
Duns Scotus, along with Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, was one of the three most talented and influential of the medieval schoolmen, and a high...
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1270,69 |
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Science and Technology in Modern European Life
ISBN: 9780313337680 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last two centuries have seen unprecedented change in the everyday lives of Europeans. From the Napoleonic Wars to the end of the Cold War, from the Industrial Revolution to the Computer Revolution, many of these changes were greatly influenced by the scientific and technological advances that took place during that period. This volume in the Daily Life Through History series examines how science and technology impacted the everyday life of modern Europeans in all aspects from of their lives. "Science and Technology in Modern European Life" shows how science and technology influenced... The last two centuries have seen unprecedented change in the everyday lives of Europeans. From the Napoleonic Wars to the end of the Cold War, from... |
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232,00 |
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Thinking about Life: The History and Philosophy of Biology and Other Sciences
ISBN: 9781402088650 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology. We used our present-day understanding of cells to define the living state, providing a basis for exploring several general-interest topics: the origin of life, extraterrestrial life, intelligence, and the possibility that humans are unique. The ideas we proposed in About Life were intended as starting-points for debate we did not claim them as truth but the information on which they were based is currently accepted as scientific fact . What does that mean? What is scientific fact and why is it accepted? What is science and is biology...
Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology. We used our present-day understanding of cells to define the living state, providing a basis ...
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201,24 |
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The Moon That Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite
ISBN: 9783764389086 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book details the history of one of astronomy s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. Meticulously documented and based on a large collection of primary sources, the book addresses the history of planetary astronomy in a novel way. This book details the history of one of astronomy s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. Meticulously documented and based on a large col... |
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402,53 |
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The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation
ISBN: 9780226750248 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts indeed, highly respected experts authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power and profit. But are they morally different from other people? "The Scientific Life" is historian Steven Shapin s story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter.
Conventional wisdom has long held that scientists are neither better nor... Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are exper...
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139,20 |
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Telling Lives in Science: Essays on Scientific Biography
ISBN: 9780521088909 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Images of scientists and ideas about science are often communicated to the public through historic biographies of eminent scientists, yet there has been little study of the development of scientific biography. Telling Lives brings together a collection of original essays by leading historians of science, several of them biographers, which explore for the first time the nature and development of scientific biography and its importance in forming our ideas about what scientists do, how science works, and why scientific biography remains popular. Theoretical and historical studies range from the...
Images of scientists and ideas about science are often communicated to the public through historic biographies of eminent scientists, yet there has be...
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229,29 |
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