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...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-01-01
Collection : Archimedes
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Télécharger le livre :  Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics
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This book is divided into two sections. The first section is concerned with the emergence and expansion of a form of mechanical knowledge defined by us as pre-classical mechanics. The definition purports to the period roughly between the 15th and the 17th century,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-24
Collection : Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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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...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-12-11
Collection : SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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Télécharger le livre :  Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Physics
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This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century.  The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein’s pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2012-02-02
Collection : Einstein Studies
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