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This translation of an ancient Chinese book on astronomy (which is believed to date back to the first century AD) provides the non-specialist with a lucid account of how Chinese astronomers did their work in ancient times. The book also shows how the...

Science International is the history of a worldwide organization of scientists, now involving thousands of participants, which was started a century ago when a few visionaries founded the International Association of Academies (1899-1919). This was...

Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to...

According to received historiography, the fundamental issue in eighteenth-century optics was whether light could be understood as the emission of particles, or as the motion of waves in a subtle medium. Moreover, the emission theory of light was supposed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548854Author Katayoun ShafieeFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986384509Author Marc L TayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Mediatech PublishingPublisher Mediatech PublishingWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546515Author Amy Sue BixFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313256523Author James W. CortadaFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

In Darwinian Heresies, which was originally published in 2004, prominent historians and philosophers of science trace the history of evolutionary thought, and challenge many of the assumptions that have built up over the years. Covering a wide range of...

This book explores the origins of the American intelligence testing movement. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester and author of the most popular American eugenics tract, The Kallikak Family. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Co-Winner, 2014 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Technology Research 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780262534765Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262550888Author Wolfgang LefevreFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in the period from the outbreak of World War I to the conclusion of World War II. It was during these years...

It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under national Socialism. Yet in The Professionalisation of Psychology in Nazi Germany Ulfried Geuter tells a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061353260Author Amanda LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 408g

This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology...

The science of botany underwent a dramatic change in the late nineteenth century. A reform movement originating in Germany took the traditionally destructive approach to the study of plant structure and physiology and transformed it into a study of plant...

The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general criteria - which are generally agreed upon in the natural sciences - are emphatically disputed in the social...

The early twentieth century brought about the rejection by physicists of the doctrine of determinism - the belief that complete knowledge of the initial conditions of an interaction in nature allows precise and unambiguous prediction of the outcome. This...

The Nobel Prizes have long been the most prestigious awards in the world of science. Established according to the wishes expressed in the will of Alfred Nobel (1895), the annual awards began in 1901. The Nobel Archives preserve the detailed study of the...

In this text, Dr Slotten explores the institutional and cultural history of science in the United States. The main focus of the book is an analysis of the activities of Alexander Dallas Bache, great grandson of Benjamin Franklin and the acknowledged...

This book describes the stage-by-stage creation and development, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, of the remarkable global communications technologies that have profoundly transformed the way that people live and work. ...

A great technological and scientific innovation of the last half of the twentieth century, the computer has revolutionized how we organize information, how we communicate with each other, and even the way we think about the human mind. Computers have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692764886Author Paul J ChristiansenFormat PaperbackImprint Bleeg Publishing LLCPublisher Bleeg Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 667g

Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of...

Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848), one of the world's leading scientists in the first half of the nineteenth century, dominated the field of chemistry, animated the cultural life of his native Sweden, and served for three decades as perpetual secretary of the...

In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her...

The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general criteria - which are generally agreed upon in the natural sciences - are emphatically disputed in the social...

This is a study of the nature and role of science in the exploration of the Canadian Arctic. It covers the century that began with the British Royal Naval expeditions of 1818 and ended with the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18. Professor Levere...

Science as Public Culture joins a growing number of studies examining science as a practical activity in specific social settings. Jan Golinski considers the development of chemistry in Britain from 1760 to 1820, and relates it to the rise and subsequent...

Originally published in paperback in 1986, the essays in this book discuss questions about the growth and conceptual structure of the modern evolutionary synthesis, or 'neo-Darwinism'. Written by biologists, historians and philosophers, the collection...

The development of the concept of valency has provided one of the major unifying contributions to the growth of chemistry as a science. The study of its history is therefore of the greatest interest to all chemists and historians of chemistry. After...

Charles Blacker Vignoles (1793-1875) has been somewhat overshadowed by his contemporaries, the Stephensons, Brunel and Locke. Yet from 1825 to 1870, he was continually involved in the field of civil engineering in the UK, Ireland and overseas. Among his...

Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538329Author Philipp von HilgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537414Author Ashley CarseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Invention --that single leap of a human mind that gives us all we create. Yet we make a mistake when we call a telephone or a light bulb an invention, says John Lienhard. In truth, light bulbs, airplanes, steam engines--these objects are the end results,...

Weighing the World is a revealing behind-the-scenes look at the scientific events leading to modern map making, written by one of the world's master surveyors. Edwin Danson, using a similar approach to his earlier best seller, "Drawing the Line: How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061885143Author Amanda LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 750Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 43mm

The southern agricultural landscape is enriched by the occasional old cane mill, once the center of family activity each fall as juice was squeezed from the cane, evaporated in a kettle or evaporator pan, and converted into syrup for home use or cash...