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William H. Pickering: America's Deep Space Pioneer
ISBN: 9781780396941 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NASA SP-4113. The NASA History Series. Provides a biography of Dr. William H. Pickering. The dust jacket states: "More than any other individual Bill Pickering was responsible for Americas success in exploring the planets, an endeavor that demanded vision, courage, dedication, expertise, and the ability to inspire two generations of scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory", a quote from Thomas P. Everhart.
NASA SP-4113. The NASA History Series. Provides a biography of Dr. William H. Pickering. The dust jacket states: "More than any other individual Bill ...
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What Have We Learned about Science and Technology from the Russian Experience?
ISBN: 9780804729857 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the time the Soviet Union broke apart in the late 1980's, it possessed the largest scientific community in the world. The rapid development, in just a few decades, of such an immense scientific establishment--in a social and economic environment strikingly different from the West--presents an unusual opportunity for the world's leading authority on Soviet science to examine how the Russian experience sheds light on the status and character of science and technology throughout the world. The book is organized around five questions, each given its own chapter: -Is Science a Social...
At the time the Soviet Union broke apart in the late 1980's, it possessed the largest scientific community in the world. The rapid development, in jus...
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The Mathematics of Life
ISBN: 9780465032402 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years, however, mathematicians have proven that they hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our world--and ourselves.
In The Mathematics of Life, Ian Stewart provides a fascinating overview of the vital but little-recognized role mathematics has played in pulling back the curtain on the hidden complexities of the natural world--and how its contribution will be even more vital in the years ahead. In his characteristically clear and... Biologists have long dismissed mathematics as being unable to meaningfully contribute to our understanding of living beings. Within the past ten years...
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Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600
ISBN: 9780870716096 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the "new sciences" of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Long offers a coherent account and critical revision of the "Zilsel thesis," an influential etiological narrative which argues that such craftsmen were instrumental in bringing about the "Scientific Revolution." "Artisan/Practitioners" reassesses the issue of artisanal influence from three different perspectives: the...
This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practition...
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Science in the Public Sphere: Natural Knowledge in British Culture 1800-1860
ISBN: 9780860788652 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as a natural knowledgea - in Britain during the first half of the 19th century. This was the period before major state support for science allowed its professionalization; indeed, it was a time in which the word a scientista (although coined in 1833 by William Whewell) was not yet widely used. In this context, the questions about the nature of science were part of a public debate that included the following topics: scientific method and intellectual authority, the moral...
The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as a natural knowledgea - in ...
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Science, Culture and Politics in Britain, 1750-1870
ISBN: 9780860786337 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the late 1960s, Jack Morrella s articles have stimulated a reorientation of the historiography of science. He showed by example, in the studies now gathered here, how the social, political, economic, and institutional aspects of science could be integrated with its content. In his writings he assumed that science was a socially organised attempt to set and solve problems concerning the natural world, and that historians should take cognisance of everything which affected that activity - without down-grading published knowledge, its end-product. Specific topics in this volume include the...
From the late 1960s, Jack Morrella s articles have stimulated a reorientation of the historiography of science. He showed by example, in the studies n...
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Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education
ISBN: 9780860785422 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set of essays - four, including the long title essay, being published here for the first time - reflects the author's long interest in the science and culture of the Victorian period. The first section examines the patronage of science and the activities of the British Association of the Advancement of Science and the Cavendish Society. The following one explores natural theology and natural history, and the impact of German scientists on British culture. Ten essays on science education then provide a broad perspective, as well as specific insights into heurism, technical education in...
This set of essays - four, including the long title essay, being published here for the first time - reflects the author's long interest in the scienc...
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Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
ISBN: 9780860789932 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide range of problems in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, focussing especially on science but including also medicine, mathematics, philosophy and mythology. Three common themes recur: the ancients' own concern with disciplinary boundaries, their engagement in polemics, and the heterogeneity of different traditions - cultivating different styles of reasoning with different results - in ancient science....
From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be rep...
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The Invention of Discovery, 1500-1700
ISBN: 9780754668411 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/discovery binary itself invented, or discovered? This volume investigates the possibility that it was invented, through a range of early modern knowledge practices, centered on the emergence of modern natural science. From Bacon to Galileo, from stagecraft to math, from martyrology to romance, contributors to this interdisciplinary collection examine the period's generation of discovery as an absolute and ostensibly neutral standard of...
The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery. More recently, it has been troped as an age of invention. But was the invention/disc...
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Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800
ISBN: 9780754668541 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the human body, and new facts about the way nature worked. These 'secrets' became popular items of commerce and trade, as the quest for new and exclusive bits of information met the vibrant early modern...
Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began t...
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Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae
ISBN: 9780415697873 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and proto-sociologist--to name just some of the fields to which he contributed--, Humboldt is impossible to contain in a single identity or definition. His voluminous writings range across so many different fields of knowledge that his scholarly-scientific personae multiplied even during his lifetime, and...
Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin ...
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A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science
ISBN: 9780812243802 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Founded in 1812, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia stands today as the oldest natural history museum in the Western hemisphere. Early expeditions organized at the Academy were of central importance to the exploration of America's western wilderness, and the plant and animal specimens that were brought back formed the foundation of a collection that today contains some eighteen million items. What began as a small gathering of devoted amateurs has grown into a vibrant international center for scientific education and research. "A Glorious Enterprise," the first complete... Founded in 1812, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia stands today as the oldest natural history museum in the Western hemisphere. Early... |
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Breaking Into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science
ISBN: 9780814776452 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. Rosser shows that these continuing trends...
Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers...
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Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery
ISBN: 9780816528967 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Red Planet has been a subject of fascination for humanity for thousands of years, becoming part of our folklore and popular culture. The most Earthlike of the planets in our solar system, Mars may have harbored some form of life in the past and may still possess an ecosystem in some underground refuge. The mysteries of this fourth planet from our Sun make it of central importance to NASA and its science goals for the twenty-first century. In the wake of the very public failures of the Mars Polar Lander and the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999, NASA embarked on a... The Red Planet has been a subject of fascination for humanity for thousands of years, becoming part of our folklore and popular culture. The most E... |
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The Making of the Chemist: The Social History of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914
ISBN: 9780521583510 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern chemistry, so alarming, so necessary, so ubiquitous, became a mature science in nineteenth-century Europe. As it developed, often from a lowly position in medicine or in industry, so chemists established themselves as professional men; but differently in different countries. In 1820 chemistry was an autonomous science of great prestige but chemists had no corporate identity. It was 1840 before national chemical societies were first formed; and many countries lagged fifty years behind. Chemists are the largest of scientific groups; and in this 1998 book we observe the social history of...
Modern chemistry, so alarming, so necessary, so ubiquitous, became a mature science in nineteenth-century Europe. As it developed, often from a lowly ...
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Coal Mining
ISBN: 9781107605817 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1914 text contains explains the key principles involved in coal mining, together with information regarding its historical development.
This 1914 text contains explains the key principles involved in coal mining, together with information regarding its historical development.
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Animal Colour Changes and Their Neurohumours: A Survey of Investigations 1910-1943
ISBN: 9781107613256 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1948, this book covers the main papers published on animal colour changes between 1910 and 1943.
Originally published in 1948, this book covers the main papers published on animal colour changes between 1910 and 1943.
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Lord Balfour and His Relation to Science
ISBN: 9781107616448 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tthis 1930 book provides a memoir of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Balfour's relationship to scientific thought.
Tthis 1930 book provides a memoir of former Conservative Prime Minister Lord Balfour's relationship to scientific thought.
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Mathematical and Physical Papers 6 Volume Set
ISBN: 9781108029049 / Angielski / Miękka / 3202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin (1824 1907), is best known for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature and for his work on the first and second laws of thermodynamics, though throughout his 53-year career as a mathematical physicist and engineer at the University of Glasgow he investigated a wide range of scientific questions in areas ranging from geology to transatlantic telegraph cables. The extent of his work is revealed in the six volumes of his Mathematical and Physical Papers, published from 1882 until 1911, consisting of articles that appeared in scientific periodicals...
William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin (1824 1907), is best known for devising the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature and for his work on the first and...
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Osiris, Volume 27 : Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History
ISBN: 9780226450056 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science reveals how scholars in their everyday practice can work to maintain a sense of a larger purpose. The contributors were encouraged to expand their intimate experience with particular subjects to create works with a broad appeal to scholars in many disciplines. The essays are meant to be exemplars of a historiographical genre that achieve general interest in ways that are participatory, grass-roots, and non-directive.
The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science revea... |
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