Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • OUR CELESTIAL CLOCKWORK
    RICHARD KERNER
    This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn of civilizations; the second is scientific, conveying mathematical and physical content of each advancement. Great scientists of antiquity, Middle Ages and modern times until the 18th century, are presented along with their discover...
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    120,89 €

  • The Graft
    Edmund O. Lawler / Edmund OLawler
    The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation. ...
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    41,93 €

  • Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
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    50,61 €

  • Biographies Of Distinguished Scientific Men
    François Arago / Baden Powell / William Henry Smyth
    Biographies Of Distinguished Scientific Men: Translated By Admiral W.H. Smyth, The Rev. Baden Powell, And Robert Grant (First Series)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting ...
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    15,03 €

  • NEWTON . FARADAY . EINSTEIN
    TADAYOSHI SHIOYAMA
    Our lives have benefited immensely from the scientific evolution over the years. This book provides an overview of the lives of three great scientists, Newton, Faraday and Einstein, who made the most significant contributions to physics.Newton and Faraday laid the foundation of Newtonian mechanics and electro-magnetic theory, respectively, that constituted the two greatest cont...
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    35,12 €

  • Calculus Reordered
    David M. Bressoud
    A look at how calculus has evolved over hundreds of years and why calculus pedagogy needs to changeCalculus Reordered tells the remarkable story of how calculus grew over centuries into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, how it was shaped by Italian philosophers such as G...
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    28,04 €

  • De neuronas a galaxias
    Adolfo Plasencia Diago
    La ciencia, hoy en día, es más un proceso de colaboración que momentos eureka individuales. Mediante una serie de diálogos interconectados con destacados científicos, a los que se les pide que reflexionen sobre preguntas y conceptos clave en torno al mundo físico, la tecnología y la mente, se recrea aquí este tipo de sinergia. Estos pensadores aportan tanto observaciones especí...
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    24,50 €

  • WHAT IS SCIENCE?
    ELOF AXEL CARLSON
    What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, exploration, experimentation and other reason-based approaches. It discusses the basic and applied sciences, the reasons why some people hate science, especially its rejection of the supernatural, and others who fear it for human applicatio...
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    33,24 €

  • WHAT IS SCIENCE?
    ELOF AXEL CARLSON
    What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, exploration, experimentation and other reason-based approaches. It discusses the basic and applied sciences, the reasons why some people hate science, especially its rejection of the supernatural, and others who fear it for human applicatio...
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    68,78 €

  • BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
    HELGE KRAGH
    Consisting of separate cases organized by chapter and divided into independent sections, this is no ordinary history of science book. Between the Earth and the Heavens is an episodic history of modern physical sciences covering the chronological development of physics, chemistry and astronomy since about 1860. Integrating historical authenticity and modern scientific knowledge,...
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    117,25 €

  • Scouting and Scoring
    Christopher J. Phillips
    An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts...
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    26,38 €

  • HERMES EXPERIMENT, THE
    Erhard Steffens / Richard Milner / RICHARD MILNER & ERHARD STEFFENS
    This book describes the story of how a collaboration of several hundred physicists from Europe and North America formed in 1988 to design, construct, install, commission and operate, for the years 1995-2007 the technically innovative HERMES experiment at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany to study the spin structure of the fundamental structure of matter. The authors begin...
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    58,55 €

  • 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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    56,15 €

  • 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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    46,47 €

  • 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 €


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