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Hawking Incorporated : Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
ISBN: 9780226522265 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are-or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of questions Helene Mialet explores in this fascinating volume, as she focuses on a man who is permanently attached to assemblages of machines, devices, and collectivities of people: Stephen Hawking. Drawing on an extensive and in-depth series of...These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connec... |
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Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
ISBN: 9780226677606 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. InInventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668 1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. The primary focus of this study is Boerhaave s educational philosophy, and Powers traces its development from Boerhaave s early days as a student in Leiden through his publication of the Elementa chemiaein 1732. Powers reveals how Boerhaave restructured and reinterpreted various practices from diverse chemical traditions...
InInventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668 1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor who...
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Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America
ISBN: 9780226733623 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "sacred fire" passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America. By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the...
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish America...
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The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon
ISBN: 9780226812205 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years immediately following Napoleon s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment s emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly... In the years immediately following Napoleon s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long ... |
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Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to Dna, 1945-2000
ISBN: 9780230250321 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sequencing is often associatedwith the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and expectations around genomics."
Sequencing is often associatedwith the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this prac...
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Cosmic Anger: Abdus Salam - The First Muslim Nobel Scientist
ISBN: 9780199697120 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated and branded as a heretic in his own country. His achievements are often overlooked, even besmirched. Realizing that the whole world had to be his stage, he pioneered the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, a vital focus of Third World science which remains as his monument. A staunch Muslim, he was ashamed of the decline of science in the heritage of Islam, and struggled doggedly to restore it to its former glory. Undermined...
This book presents a biography of Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for Science (Physics 1979), who was nevertheless excommunicated a...
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Interpreting Physics: Language and the Classical/Quantum Divide
ISBN: 9789400723689 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending, and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and...
This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptua...
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Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean
ISBN: 9780415508759 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together some of the most active and prominent researchers in ancient history, this book moves beyond political institutions, ethnic, and geographical boundaries in order to observe the ancient Mediterranean through a perspective of network interaction. It employs a wide range of approaches, and to examine...
How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis...
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A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780199644377 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually became the central entity of a domain of physics that no longer referred to the functioning of the eye; it retraces the subsequent competition between medium-based and corpuscular concepts of light; and it details the nineteenth-century flourishing of mechanical ether theories. The author critically exploits and sometimes completes the more specialized histories that have flourished in the past few years. The resulting...
This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It show...
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Plant Disease: The Jamaican Experience
ISBN: 9789766404130 / Angielski / Miękka / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interesting studies of plant diseases in Jamaica have been conducted since the early twentieth century. This book gives an account of the history and development of the science of plant pathology and of plant disease control in Jamaica and shows how the activities have contributed to the development of the island's agricultural heritage. Coates-Beckford and Tennant draw together and integrate a wide range of material to provide a unique insight into how the major plant diseases in Jamaica have been, and still are being, overcome.
The existing literature on tropical plant diseases is by... Interesting studies of plant diseases in Jamaica have been conducted since the early twentieth century. This book gives an account of the history and ...
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Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
ISBN: 9780393337525 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two doctors, the Spaniard Cajal and the Italian Golgi, were racing against each other to find out what brain cells looked like and how they managed to communicate with one another. Both did their most important research in labs set up on their kitchen tables, for lack of better facilities; and both made landmark findings that led to their jointly receiving the 1906 Nobel Prize. Yet one man would find that neurons communicated over a gap, later named the 'synapse', while the other would die convinced that every brain cell connected to the next. From Parkinson's to neurosurgery, from the...
Two doctors, the Spaniard Cajal and the Italian Golgi, were racing against each other to find out what brain cells looked like and how they managed to...
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
ISBN: 9780393342239 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf s blood into one of Paris s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting expose of the fierce debates, deadly politics, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first transfusion experiments, Blood Work takes us from dissection rooms in palaces to the streets of Paris, providing an unforgettable portrait of an era that wrestled with the same questions about morality and experimentation that haunt medical science today."
In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf s blood into one of Paris s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and...
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The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson: Sometime Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
ISBN: 9781107655423 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1942, this book provides a well-researched biography of the British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson. Thomson's revolutionary discoveries relating to atomic structure are covered in detail, together with the scientific climate of the time and other non-scientific aspects of his life. The text contains numerous excerpts from Thomson's writings, including his letters, together with a variety of photographic figures. Produced shortly after his death in 1940 and written on the advice of his family, this book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Thomson's life...
Originally published in 1942, this book provides a well-researched biography of the British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson. Thomson's revolutionary...
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The Combination of Observations
ISBN: 9781107697614 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1931, this book is the second edition of a 1917 original. The text provides an account of the method of least squares, aiming to obtain the best interpretation of the results of experiment without consideration of the way in which these results are obtained. Elaborate descriptions of instruments and experimental methods are avoided, allowing for a concise and economical account that concentrates on key elements of the subject. This is a detailed and well-organized book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in least squares and the development of mathematics.
First published in 1931, this book is the second edition of a 1917 original. The text provides an account of the method of least squares, aiming to ob...
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Biological Oceanography : An Early History. 1870 - 1960
ISBN: 9781442613720 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1989, Eric L. Mills's comprehensive history of biological oceanography has been praised as 'superb' (BioScience) and 'proof that history need not be dull' (The Northern Mariner). This first history of the field, which chronicles the scientific work and creativity of its chief contributors, tells a riveting story that is far from narrowly scientific and thoroughly accessible to general readers. Mills shows how the work and ideas of the main actors are inseparable from some seemingly unrelated factors, including Prussian imperialism, agricultural... First published in 1989, Eric L. Mills's comprehensive history of biological oceanography has been praised as 'superb' (BioScience) and 'p... |
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Machinamenta: The thousand year quest to build a creative machine
ISBN: 9781456317751 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Machinamenta is an exploration of the ancient roots of machines which are designed to be creative. It begins with the divination systems of prehistoric Africa, which followed mathematical principles to generate unique utterances in response to the questions of petitioners. Tracing the influence of philosophers and artists, inventors and scientists, musicians and mystics, it goes on to explore machines that, before the dawn of the twentieth century, were designed to write poetry, compose new melodies, understand language, prove theorems, and create artwork. It concludes with an examination of...
Machinamenta is an exploration of the ancient roots of machines which are designed to be creative. It begins with the divination systems of prehistori...
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The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics
ISBN: 9781461180173 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Prince of Evolution," Lee Alan Dugatkin introduces the reader to Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin -- one of the world's first international celebrities. In England Kropotkin was known as a brilliant scientist, famous for his work on animal and human cooperation, but Kropotkin's fame in continental Europe centered more on his role as a founder of anarchism. In the United States, he pursued both passions. Tens of thousands of people followed Prince Peter during two speaking tours that took him around America. Kropotkin's path to fame was labyrinthine, with asides in prisons, breathtaking...
In "The Prince of Evolution," Lee Alan Dugatkin introduces the reader to Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin -- one of the world's first international cele...
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Trial by Combat
ISBN: 9781466248168 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of Trial by Combat Braswell D. Deen, Jr., son of a former U.S. Congressman, spent two years in the United States Marine Corps during WWII (purple heart), four years at the University of Georgia (law school), fifthteen years in the practice of law (Jaycees selection as one of the five outstanding young men in Georgia in 1953), eight years as a member of the Georgia General Assembly (authoring Georgia's Woman Jury Bill in 1953), twenty six years on the Court of Appeals of Georgia (former Chief Judge), and thirteen years in alternative dispute resolution (writing his book, Deen's... The author of Trial by Combat Braswell D. Deen, Jr., son of a former U.S. Congressman, spent two years in the United States Marine Corps during W... |
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Twelve Keys of Basilius Valentinus Second Edition
ISBN: 9781468067941 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twelve Keys of Basilius Valentinus is one of the most important alchemical works available to modern students. His writings contain much of interest to the student of alchemy. Whether Basil Valentine is the correct name of the author or an alias does not matter since it detracts nothing from his work or the value of his experiments.
Twelve Keys of Basilius Valentinus is one of the most important alchemical works available to modern students. His writings contain much of interest t...
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Essay on the Use of Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, An
ISBN: 9781565549487 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever wanted to be able to find the longitude of wherever you were, or to know what time of day it was without using a watch? George Adams' An Essay on the Use of Terrestrial Globes, written in 1766, answers these questions and many more. Have you ever wanted to be able to find the longitude of wherever you were, or to know what time of day it was without using a watch? George Adams' An Essay on the Use of Terrestrial Globes, written in 1766, answers these questions and many more. Utilizing simple scientific truths, Adams describes how to navigate a ship or plan for the winter and... Have you ever wanted to be able to find the longitude of wherever you were, or to know what time of day it was without using a watch? George Adams'... |
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