Dear Martin / Dear Marcello: Gardner And Truzzi On Skepticism
In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement. He is best known as the Father of Recreational Mathematics, but was also a frank critic of pseudoscientists and a contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.Marcello Truzzi was one of the founders of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal in 1976. He left that and founded the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research...
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by В.Н. Добровольский
Taking Chances (Psychiatry and the Humanities)
A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.
История Лейб-гвардии гренадерского полка
by В.К. Судравский
Theology and Science in the 14th Century (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, #25)
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by Д. А. Хвольсон
The wind is a fickle source of power. Windspeeds are frequently too low to be of any practical use, so that windpower has generally remained a marginal resource. Since the inception of windpower around 1000 AD, technology has been deployed to obtain the most economical power from wind. The author traces its technical evolution, concentrating on the growth in understanding of wind and charting crucial developments in windmill design. The history of the windmill is focused on North Western Europe,...
Esta nueva edición de Ciencia está completamente actualizada con los descubrimientos que cambiaron nuestro mundo para siempre. Un viaje a través de la historia de la ciencia, pasando por cada evento, teoría, experimento y figura que debes conocer para entender el significado de cada descubrimiento y su lugar dentro del pensamiento científico. Este magnífico libro de ciencia en español narra la historia y el progreso científico desde la antigua geometría griega hasta la física cuántica, pasand...
Письма и донесения иезуитов о России концk
by А. Ф. Бычков
Strabons Geographika Band 10
Лхасса и ее тайны
by А. Уоддель
Ruggiero Boscovich's Theory of Natural Philosophy (Science Networks. Historical Studies, #60)
by Luca Guzzardi
Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich's theory within its historical context. It explains the genesis and theoretical as well as epistemological underpinnings in light of the Jesuit tradition to which Boscovich belonged, and contrasts his ideas with those of Newton, Leibniz, and their legacy. Finally, it debates crucial issues in early-modern physical science such as the concept of force, the particle-like...
Sorting Things Out (Inside Technology)
by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification—the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out...
The World as a Mathematical Game: John Von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science (Science Networks Historical Studies)
by Giorgio Israel
The Evolution of Perception and the Cosmology of Substance
by Christopher Ott
Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe (Warwick Series in the Humanities)
by David Beck
Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.