Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science
    Jonathan E. Martin / Jonathan EMartin
    Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check the weather forecast. Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science not only details Sutcliffe’s life and ideas, but it also illuminates the impact of soci...
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    142,41 €

  • Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues
    Norman F. Cheville / Norman FCheville
    Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues-anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio-were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tubercu...
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    142,95 €

  • No Shadow of a Doubt
    Daniel Kennefick
    The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s new theory of general relativity in what became the century’s most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a celebrity by confirming his prediction that t...
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    25,96 €

  • The Slow Moon Climbs
    Susan Mattern
    A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about itAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been. From the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to show how p...
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    25,69 €

  • An archaeology of innovation
    Catherine J. Frieman
    This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance. ...
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    157,51 €

  • Taking Nazi Technology
    Douglas M O’Reagan
    During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming 'wonder-weapons' that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied power...
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    47,17 €

  • Engineering Rules
    Craig N Murphy / Joanne Yates
    Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system’s evo...
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    53,13 €

  • Imagination and Science in Romanticism
    Richard C Sha
    Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, ...
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    46,98 €

  • DEVELOPMENT HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHINESE GLASS TECHNOLOGY
    HONG LI & LISONG HOU FUXI GAN / Hong Li / Lisong Hou
    Worldwide research on ancient glass began in the early 20th century. A consensus has been reached in the community of Archaeology that the first manmade or synthetic glasses, based on archaeological findings, originated in the Middle East during the 5000-3000’s BC. By contrast, the manufacturing technology of pottery and ceramics were well developed in ancient China. The earlie...
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    244,89 €

  • Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes
    Derrick Peterson
    We are all haunted by histories. They shape our presuppositions and ballast our judgments. In terms of science and religion this means most of us walk about haunted by rumors of a long war. However, there is no such thing as the 'history of the conflict of science and Christianity,' and this is a book about it. In the last half of the twentieth century a sea change in the histo...
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    41,04 €

  • Flat Earths and Fake Footnotes
    Derrick Peterson
    We are all haunted by histories. They shape our presuppositions and ballast our judgments. In terms of science and religion this means most of us walk about haunted by rumors of a long war. However, there is no such thing as the 'history of the conflict of science and Christianity,' and this is a book about it. In the last half of the twentieth century a sea change in the histo...
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    62,13 €

  • FROM THALES TO GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
    LOUIS MARCHILDON
    Science has its roots in human curiosity. It is the process of exploration and research that has led to a better understanding of our surroundings: Copernicus set the Earth in its right place in our models of the Universe, Charles Darwin elucidated the mechanism of the evolution of living species, and Albert Einstein brought out the intimate connection between energy, space, an...
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    30,14 €

  • The Origins of Modern Science
    Ofer Gal
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    119,68 €

  • Revolutionary Networks
    Joseph M Adelman
    During the American Revolution, printed material, including newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, and broadsides, played a crucial role as a forum for public debate. In Revolutionary Networks, Joseph M. Adelman argues that printers--artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade--used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary polit...
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    47,24 €

  • Science and the Modern World
    Alfred North Whitehead
    Originally published in 1925, Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World was a groundbreaking work that redefined the concept of modern science. It is a work not only of the first importance but also of great beauty in which the author dramatically describes what had long engaged his meditations; namely, the rise, triumph, and impact of 'scientific materialism,' acco...
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    22,20 €

  • The Environment
    Libby Robin / Paul Warde / Sverker Sörlin
    Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifestyles impoverish the planet for our children and grandchildren? Is the world sick? Can it be healed? Less than a lifetime ago, these questions would have made no sense. This was not because our ancestors had no impact on nature--nor because they were unaware of the serious damage they ...
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    34,29 €

  • Twelve Keys
    Basil Valentine
    'I, Basil Valentine, brother of the Benedictine Order, do testify that I have written this little book, wherein, after the manner of the Ancients, I have philosophically indicated how this most rare treasure may be acquired, whereby the true Sages did prolong life unto its furthest limit.u2029'The Twelve Keys is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Basil Valentine,...
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    19,15 €

  • Twelve Keys
    Basil Valentine
    'I, Basil Valentine, brother of the Benedictine Order, do testify that I have written this little book, wherein, after the manner of the Ancients, I have philosophically indicated how this most rare treasure may be acquired, whereby the true Sages did prolong life unto its furthest limit.u2029'The Twelve Keys is a widely reproduced alchemical book attributed to Basil Valentine,...
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    12,36 €

  • THAT HIGH DESIGN OF PUREST GOLD
    GRAHAM DUTFIELD
    This book is a history of medicines and the commercial actors that make and sell them, covering the 140 years since the modern pharmaceutical industry came into being. It is written in a lively and accessible way, aiming at a general audience that combines historical narrative with fascinating case studies on drug discovery and commercialization, from the rat poison that became...
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    81,18 €

  • Feedback Loops
    This volume explores the arrangement of science, technology, society, and education. Using the concept of "feedback loop", this book processes subjects dear to the work of Joseph C. Pitt: technology as humanity at work, pragmatism, Sicilian realism, pragmatist pedagogy, instrumentation in science, and more. ...
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    136,08 €

  • History of Modern Psychology
    C. G. Jung
    Jung’s lectures on the history of psychology-in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to yoga and meditation. Here for the first time in English are Jung’s...
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    27,85 €

  • Creatures of Cain
    Erika Lorraine Milam
    How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species’ unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new urgency. Creatures of Cain charts the rise and precipitous fall in Cold War America of a theory that attributed man’s evolutionary success to his unique capacity for murder.Drawing on a...
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    35,37 €

  • Ptolemy’s Philosophy
    Jacqueline Feke
    A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy’s philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to recon...
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    43,14 €

  • Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
    Annette Imhausen
    A survey of ancient Egyptian mathematics across three thousand yearsMathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC-and the earliest hints of writing and number notation-to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative documents, ...
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    54,15 €

  • SONG FOR MOLLY, A
    JEREMY BERNSTEIN
    A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Gödel, to trying to live with a dog named Molly. The science is serious although the tone is whimsical. The spirit of this book can be demonstrated by a conversation between Einstein and his assistant Ernst Straus:...
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    70,52 €

  • SONG FOR MOLLY, A
    JEREMY BERNSTEIN
    A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Gödel, to trying to live with a dog named Molly. The science is serious although the tone is whimsical. The spirit of this book can be demonstrated by a conversation between Einstein and his assistant Ernst Straus:...
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    34,99 €

  • Samuel Butler and the Science of the Mind
    Cristiano Turbil
    Darwin’s theory of evolution was received with great interest all across Europe. The theory of evolution generated numerous debate among scientists, philosophers and the general public. Questions concerning the evolution of animals and humans, the existence of any blueprint or design in biology, and the relationship between Darwinism and Lamarckism rapidly became key topics of ...
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    119,69 €

  • Pandemic Theology
    Jamela Camat / Jonathan Wiebe / Lucas Tombrowski
    'This book will discuss the histories of some of the most deadly and influential pandemics in human history, along with contemporary Christian responses and moderntheological perspectives on these pandemics.Our goal is not to attempt to answer age-old theological questions about the role of evil, death, and hardship in God’s world, but rather to identify the 'ideal' Christian r...
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    29,81 €

  • HOW TO CONSTRUCT YOUR INTELLECTUAL PEDIGREE
    ELOF AXEL CARLSON
    This is a handbook that shows the reader how to construct an intellectual pedigree. It is also a history of science monograph because the completed intellectual pedigrees can be used individually or collectively to trace the influences of mentoring in the life sciences. The author uses Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967) (which includes his own intellectual pedigree) to show how ...
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    120,38 €

  • The Book of the Damned
    Charles Fort
    Originally published in 1919, “The Book of the Damned” was the first non-fiction work published by American author Charles Fort. It explores different types of inexplicable phenomena ranging from UFOs and strange weather to disappearing people, cryptozoology, and much more. A fascinating book that challenges the boundaries of accepted scientific knowledge, “The Book of the Damn...
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    26,25 €


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