Télécharger le livre :  The Turbulence Problem
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On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the “turbulence problem”. Turbulent flow rose to prominence as one of the most persistent challenges in science. At different times and in...

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Parution : 2019-10-05
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Télécharger le livre :  WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963)
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The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the...

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Parution : 2019-08-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen
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Quantum mechanics – the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level – was first formulated in Göttingen in 1925. How did this come about and why is it that Göttingen became the pre-eminent location for a revolution in physics? This book is...

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Parution : 2019-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Heisenberg’s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics
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This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes
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This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American and Russian approaches to the development of chemistry. Other key topics include the kinetics and non-linear...

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Parution : 2018-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Reassessing Riemann's Paper
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In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc. contributed immensely to mathematical physics....

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Parution : 2018-05-26
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Télécharger le livre :  From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements
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The story of superheavy elements  - those at the very end of the periodic table  - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians,...

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Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory
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This book traces the evolution of the ideas that eventually resulted in the elementary quantum theory in 1925/26. Further, it discusses the essential differences between the fundamental equations of Quantum Theory derived by Born and Jordan, logically comprising Quantum...

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Parution : 2017-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community During the Cold War
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This monograph presents a new perspective on the history of general relativity. It outlines the attempts to establish an institutional framework for the promotion of the field during the Cold War. Readers will learn the difficulties that key figures experienced and...

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Parution : 2017-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy
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This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at...

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Parution : 2017-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Subalternity vs. Hegemony, Cuba's Outstanding Achievements in Science and Biotechnology, 1959-2014
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The present book introduces an original (new) perspective on Cuba. This book revisits Cuba's choice, after the 1959 revolution, to develop an advanced healthcare and scientific system. It also introduces new aspects of the problem development/underdevelopment. From the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain
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This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War. It details the extent to which mid-twentieth-century researchers and practitioners were able to communicate with their...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Epistemology of Space
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This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by various societal conditions. By taking a thoroughly historical perspective on knowledge and integrating results from...

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Parution : 2015-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Bodies and Media
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This book presents a recasting of Aristotle’s theory of spatial displacement of inanimate objects. Aristotle’s claim that projectiles are actively carried by the media through which they move (such as air or water) is well known and has drawn the attention of...

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Parution : 2015-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bumpy Road
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This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck’s theory of radiation. It presents an insightful comparative analysis that not only sheds light upon a fundamental chapter in the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary Somerville and the World of Science
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Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father.She was active in astronomy, one...

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Parution : 2014-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Machines of Sex Research
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The Machines of Sex Research describes how researchers worldwide integrated technology into studies of human sexuality in the postwar era.The machines they invented made new ways of seeing bodies possible. Some researchers who studied men used machines like penile...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-07-04
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