Télécharger le livre :  Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World
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This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. Contributions analyze how, through time, the perception of what a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Electrical Conquest
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This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Minerals, the Climate Crisis and the Tech Imperium
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This book examines the latest manifestations of resource competition. The energy transition and the digitalization of the global economy are both accelerating even as geopolitics driven by Sino-American hyper-competition become increasingly contentious. The volume...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon
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This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an...

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Parution : 2023-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar
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This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had...

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Parution : 2023-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  A Princely Pandect on Astronomy
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This book presents an English-language translation of Risala-yi Mu?iniya, or the Mu?iniya Epistle. Risala-yi Mu?iniya is one of the earliest known works of Na?ir al-Din ?usi (1201–1274), an intellectual luminary of the 13th century CE. The work is notable for...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia
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This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
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This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750
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This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge – Architecture, Chemistry,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis
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This volume explores the challenges of sustaining long-term ecological research through a historical analysis of the Long Term Ecological Research Program created by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1980. The book examines reasons for the creation of the Program,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period
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This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding. Indeed, there is hardly a single early modern figure who took a serious...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Medical Practice in Twelfth-century China – A Translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety Discussions [Cases] on Cold Damage Disorders
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This book is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei’s (1080–1154) collection of 90 medical case records – Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun ?????) – which was the first such collection in China. The translation reveals...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Practicing the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory
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This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective. The author provides a unique exploration of the relation between the practice of theory and conceptual development in physics. In the process, he argues for a new understanding of the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-06-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800
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This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Newton's Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept
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These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton’s work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time. Newton used the concept of “sensorium” in writings intended for a public audience, in relation to both humans and God, but even today there is no consensus...

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Parution : 2018-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere
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The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Second Physicist
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This book explores the rise of theoretical physics in 19th century Germany. The authors show how the junior second physicist in German universities over time became the theoretical physicist, of equal standing to the experimental physicist. Gustav Kirchhoff, Hermann von...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine
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This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor Nancy Siraisi and reflects the impact that Siraisi's scholarship has had...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-15
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Télécharger le livre :  One Hundred Years of Pressure
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This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  History of Nonlinear Oscillations Theory in France (1880-1940)
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This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development. The work offers a critical examination of sources with a focus on the twentieth century, especially the period between the wars. Readers...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-04-18
Collection : Archimedes
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