Tous les ebooks de la collection "Archimedes" - Springer

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Télécharger le livre : Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology
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Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology
Patrick Bonner
Viewed as a flashpoint of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed a virtual explosion of ideas about the nature and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a variety of intellectual settings, challenging our view of modern...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2011-02-01
Collection : Archimedes
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91,88 €
Télécharger le livre : The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams
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The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams
Adrian Wüthrich
In a detailed reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the author reveals that their development was constantly driven by the attempt to resolve fundamental problems concerning the uninterpretable infinities that arose in quantum as well as classical theories...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2010-09-24
Collection : Archimedes
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153,14 €
Télécharger le livre : Defending Hypatia
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Defending Hypatia
Robert Goulding

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2010-06-09
Collection : Archimedes
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122,51 €
Télécharger le livre : Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen
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Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen
Uljana Feest
twentieth-century literature about the distinction between explanation and und- standing)? Second, can we do justice to a particular writer’s notion of that category by taking at face value what he writes about his own motivation for adopting it? In response to both...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-12-15
Collection : Archimedes
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132,72 €
Télécharger le livre : Mathematicians at war
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Mathematicians at war
Laurent Mazliak , Rossana Tazzioli
Numerous scientists have taken part in the war effort during World War I, but few gave it the passionate energy of the prominent Italian mathematician Volterra. As a convinced supporter of the cause of Britain and France, he struggled vigorously to carry Italy into...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-10-08
Collection : Archimedes
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122,51 €
Télécharger le livre : Altered Sensations
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Altered Sensations
David Pantalony
Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris. Beginning his career as a violin maker, in 1858 the young Prussian immigrant shifted his talents towards the growing field...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-09-18
Collection : Archimedes
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173,56 €
Télécharger le livre : New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
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New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
Lawrence M. Principe
The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features of the period remain largely unknown or unexplored, for general accounts--often built around Lavoisier--have remained quite selective. This volume...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-09-14
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163,35 €
Télécharger le livre : Frontline and Factory
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Frontline and Factory
Jeffrey A. Johnson , Roy Macleod
It has been said that history is a debate between the present and the past about the future. Nowhere are these lines drawn more significantly than in the study of science and war. And nowhere is the discourse more relevant, than in the study of science and technology as...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2007-05-06
Collection : Archimedes
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173,56 €
Télécharger le livre : Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
Mordechai Feingold , Victor Navarro-Brotons
This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on “Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period” held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain. The conference was part of the “Five Centuries of the Life of the University of Valencia” (Cinc Segles)...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-10-03
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142,93 €
Télécharger le livre : Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:
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Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:
Kärin Nickelsen
This book is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Bern in thesummerof2002. Researchonthethesiswasmadepossiblethroughagrant provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) from 2000 to 2002...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-09-21
Collection : Archimedes
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91,88 €
Télécharger le livre : Revisiting Discovery and Justification
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Revisiting Discovery and Justification
Jutta Schickore , Friedrich Steinle
The distinction between the contexts of discovery and justification has had a turbulent career in philosophy of science. At times celebrated as the hallmark of philosophical approaches to science, at times condemned as ambiguous, distorting, and misleading, the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-04-18
Collection : Archimedes
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91,88 €
Télécharger le livre : Lenses and Waves
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Lenses and Waves
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2006-01-20
Collection : Archimedes
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173,56 €
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