Kategoria BISAC: Science >> History

Die Sekundarliteratur zu dem kosmologischen Lehrgedicht des Manilius aus spataugusteisch-fruhtiberianischer Zeit nimmt in letzter Zeit standig zu. Doch werden zumeist aus ideologisch-politischer oder narratologischer Perspektive nur Einzelstellen, Proomien, Exkurse oder sonstige Randpartien in den Blick genommen. Der eigentliche Kern, die astrologische Lehre, wird dagegen weithin vermieden. Dabei haben gerade im letzten Jahrhundert unsere Kenntnisse der Astrologie durch zahlreiche (Neu)editionen der Werke des Teukros von Babylon, Dorotheos, Vettius Valens und Hephaistion erheblich...

An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.

Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. In the tradition of "The Microbe Hunters "and" Gods," "Graves," "and" "Scholars," Sean Carroll leads a rousing voyage that recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of natural history: from Darwin s trip around the world to Charles Walcott s...

Exhaustively researched and authoritative, Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy does what no other work does: it examines the conflict between the religious and scientific views of life on Earth in its full 3,000-year historical context, showing readers how this roiling debate has played out over the centuries.

With hundreds of entries, Chronology of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy describes specific cultural, religious, and scientific events relevant to the evolution-creationism controversy from the first notions of creationism in ancient...

Galileo s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun. Galileo, on the other hand, countered that the spots were on or near the surface of the Sun itself, and he supported his position with a series of meticulous observations and mathematical demonstrations that eventually convinced even his rival.

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"On Sunspots "collects the correspondence that constituted...

Many are familiar with the ideas of Copernicus, Descartes, and Galileo. But here the reader is also introduced to lesser known ideas and contributors to the Scientific Revolution, such as the mathematical Bernoulli Family and Andreas Vesalius, whose anatomical charts revolutionized the study of the human body. More marginal characters include the magician Robert Fludd. The encyclopedia also discusses subjects like Arabic science and the bizarre history of blood transfusions, and institutions like the Universities of Padua and Leiden, which were dominant forces in academic medicine and...

"Toxic Mix?: A Handbook of Science and Politics" takes a topic very much in the center of public debate in the last decade and places it in a revealing historical context. It follows the often contentious relationship of science and politics from the FDR era to the current Obama administration, highlighting the many highly charged moments when the two were in conflict.

"Toxic Mix?" ranges across the major areas of scientific inquiry with public policy implications, including atomic energy, space science, public health, stem cells, sexual reproduction, environmental science, global...

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe," the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany intersected with mining, metallurgy, pharmacy, and gardening, materials were objects that crossed disciplines.

Here, the contributors tell the stories of metals, clay, gunpowder,...