The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea or Land
by Andrew MacKay
Discourse on the Method for Rightly Conducting One's Reason and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences
by Rene Descartes
Strange Blood - The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Beyond (Medical Humanities)
by Berner Boel
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible? The book takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and l...
How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance.In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to “other sciences.” Neverthe...
Великорусские в своих песнях, обрядах, обы

by П. В. Шен
Universitaten Und Hochschulen Im Nationalsozialismus Und in Der Fruhen Nachkriegszeit
A disturbing report of the current global crisis of new and resurgent diseases. This account investigates how and why diseases such as AIDS, legionnaires' disease, ebola, TB, and new forms of cholera and malaria occur. Karlen charts humanity's relationship with microbes, from the earliest hominids' probable encounters with bubonic plague, to the spread of infections through trade, conquest and empire, to the problems awaiting the human race in the near future. Using research from the fields of g...
"It was a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and Man, to wish to bring to perfection an art damageable to one's neighbor and destructive to the human race." This anguished statement from the fifteenth-century Italian mathematician known as Tartaglia, who created the science of ballistics, might have come from any one of thousands of brilliant scientists who, throughout history, have applied their genius to the art of war. Every advance in weaponry f...
Исследование об истории княжества Ржевск
by Н. Квашнин-Самарин
Перед историческим рубежом. Балканы и балl
by Л.Д. Троцкий
Science is responsible for most of the miracles that define modern life. This leads to the disconcerting situation where need and belief are in conflict. There is an enormous literature about science and evolution in particular, but all previous authors have missed the point that evolution gives us basic tenets that are not situation- or culture-dependent. This book shows that the potential for evolution is based on the tenets of diversity and freedom, which also underlie most of the ethical and...
Life as a Soviet Scientist (Masters of Modern Physics)
by Vitalii I. Goldanskii
"The articles, essays, and interviews that comprise this work offer Dr. Goldanskii's reminiscences of his extraordinary scientific mentors and colleagues, his reflections on the obligations of science to humanity, his writings on the arts and the media, his passionate arguments against nuclear weapons, and his warnings about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in today's Russia." "Contents" The articles, essays, and interviews that comprise this work offer Dr. Goldanskii's reminiscences of his extra...
Inventive Minds
Is invention really "99 percent perspiration and one percent inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Inventive Minds assembles a group of authors well equipped to address this question: contemporary inventors of important new technologies, historians of science and industry, and cognitive psychologists interested in the process of creativity. In telling their stories, the inventors describe the origins of such remarkable devices as ultrasound, the electron microscope, and artificial diamonds....
Niels Bohr: Physics and the World (Routledge Library Editions: 20th Century Science)
Containing the proceedings of the symposium held by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Niels Bohr, this collection was first published in 1988. More than any other individual, Bohr was responsible for the development of quantum mechanics and for many of its applications in the pursuit of fundamental understanding of physical reality. In addition to his unique role in the discovery and elucidation of quantum theory, Bohr led the study of...
Записки служащие к истории его императорс
by С.А. Порошин
Отношения между церковной и гражданской в
by Ф.А. Курганов