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This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the first time or in a new translation. Authors included...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639368372Author Violet MollerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm *...

Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy. She is best known for her work on...

This book is a biography of a scientist who pioneered the development of plant pathology in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century, and was internationally acclaimed. After 20 years as a plant pathologist, he was asked to find the cause and cure of...

Wolfgang Lefevre, Jiirgen Renn, and Vrs Schoepflin General The origin of this volume is a workshop held has a deeper, more complex structure which in 1997 in Berlin as part of a series of work must be assumed if its analysis is only based shops...

1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity. For decades, historiography has told us that Albert Einstein, then a patent examiner in Bern, succeeded in developing this theory...

This proceedings volume collects the stories of mathematicians and scientists who have spent and developed parts of their careers and life in countries other than those of their origin. The reasons may have been different in different periods but were...

A History of Chinese Science and Technology (Voulumes 1, 2 & 3) presents 44 individual lectures, beginning with Ancient Chinese Science and Technology in the Process of Human Civilizations and An Overview of Ancient Chinese Science and Technology, and...

This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's...

This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887178488Author Michael FortunFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons...

This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon's (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing. Though twelfth-century Latin alchemy had...

Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale-and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary...

This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely throughout the mid- to late-eighteenth century, particularly in France and Britain. To inquire into the body of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158336Author Mark A TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988942360Author Francis Rolt-WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Diamond PublishersPublisher Diamond PublishersWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180808Author Oliver LubrichFormat HardbackPage Count 1500Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

The pioneering Dutch microbiologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek uncovered hidden worlds of minuscule life. With his ingenious, self-made microscopes, he observed inconceivably tiny creatures and structures everywhere, in well water, sperm, pimples and many...

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon...

The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest is a slice of classic Oregon: due east of Eugene in the Cascade Mountains, the Andrews Forest comprises almost 16,000 acres of the Lookout Creek watershed. The landscape is steep, with hills and deep valleys and cold,...

Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production,...

This book reconstructs the early circulation of penicillin in Spain, a country exhausted by civil war (1936-1939), and oppressed by Franco's dictatorship. Embedded in the post-war recovery, penicillin's voyages through time and across geographies -...

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a pioneer of 20th-century psychology, had a major influence on the development of cognitive psychology, especially the psychology of perception and of productive thinking. His work "Productive Thinking" (1945), written in New...

Aimed at an international readership, this book offers a representative collection of essays by the German philosopher, Georg Picht (1913-1982), who was a specialist in Greek philosophy, practical philosophy and philosophy of religion. Picht's themes...

Tracing over a century of transformation in the relationship between humans and our "best friend," from hunting companion to laboratory commodity to modern pet. Intrepid, docile, and cloaked in coats of white, black, and tan, beagles were one of the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262051200Author Edward Jones-ImhotepFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm * 1mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593962060Author DKFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 1266gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226840062Author Philip BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world.This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday life...

The twentieth century witnessed two devastating world wars that led to the exodus of millions of people. Counted among them were hundreds of neuroscientists and biological psychiatrists from Nazi Germany and its surrounding countries who were forced to...

Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American developmental biologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully performed the technique of nuclear transplantation by cloning frog...

The idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and Plato that written language eroded memory. With the emergence of generative artificial intelligence programs, we find ourselves once again...

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century seriesBook InformationISBN 9780822948513Author Edwin David RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of...

In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process. In the early twentieth century communities made creative use...

A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Histories and Ecologies of Health seriesBook InformationISBN 9780822948483Author Carolin MezesFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Get to grips with the essential topics in chemistry today through 100 key ideas, each explained clearly in just 100 words.Created as part of a series in partnership with The Science Museum, this book introduces 100 key areas of chemistry, such as gas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180181Author Oliver LubrichFormat HardbackPage Count 680Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosophy and science, namely the Traite de l'homme by Rene Descartes, completed in 1633 but published in printed...