Télécharger le livre :  The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535–1615): A Reassessment
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This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics. Della Porta's groundbreaking book,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-03-22
Collection : Archimedes
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Télécharger le livre :  Studies on Binocular Vision
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This book clarifies the interrelationship between optics, vision and perspective before the Classical Age, examining binocularity in particular. The author shows how binocular vision was one of the key juncture points between the three concepts and readers will see how...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer
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This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant famously characterized space and time as a priori forms of intuitions,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  A Mathematician's Journeys
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This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-02-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Health Care in Eleventh-Century China
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By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China most people were unable to afford a doctor, even in the unlikely case that one lived near...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science
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The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act Theory, in order to illustrate a new approach to texts and textual communicative acts. It examines assertives (absolute...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-07-15
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Télécharger le livre :  G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy
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Up to now there have been scarcely any publications on Leibniz dedicated to investigating the interrelations between philosophy and mathematics in his thought. In part this is due to the previously restricted textual basis of editions such as those produced by Gerhardt....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture
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This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Geometrical Objects
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This volume explores the mathematical character of architectural practice in diverse pre- and early modern contexts. It takes an explicitly interdisciplinary approach, which unites scholarship in early modern architecture with recent work in the history of science, in...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics
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This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and physiologists who were...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Laboratories of Art
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This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. In particular, it scrutinizes epistemic exchanges between producers of the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities
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Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling personalities in the history of science. In these chapters we are introduced to the psychology of science and of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Summus Mathematicus et Omnis Humanitatis Pater
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This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378, Feltre -- 1446, Mantua), taking a completely new approach to show his work and life from the individual perspectives created by his students and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Qu?b al-Din Shirazi and the Configuration of the Heavens
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As a leading scientist of the 13th century C. E. Qu?b al-Din Shirazi wrote three substantial works on hay’a (or the configuration of the celestial orbs):  Nihayat al-idrak fi dirayat al-aflak (“The Limits of Attainment in the Understanding of the Heavens”), al-Tu?fa...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis
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Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. Against the background of the violent history of the Religious Wars the story of the practice of mathematics in Antwerp is told through the lives of two...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life
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This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii’s career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cold War Politics of Genetic Research
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This book uses the reaction of a number of biologists in the United States and Great Britain to provide an overview of one of the most important controversies in Twentieth Century biology, the “Lysenko Affair.” The book is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  A Master of Science History
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New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-01-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Weighing the World
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The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts.The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-12-07
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Télécharger le livre :  “The main Business of natural Philosophy”
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In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-10-20
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