Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson Volume 3, The: Volume 3
by Ernest Rutherford
Pour Une Histoire Des Sciences a Part Entiere (Collections Sciences - Sciences Humaines, #6032445)
by Jacques Roger
Continuum Mechanics Through the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Head Laboratoire de Modelisation En Mecanique Gerard Maugin
From the beginning of recorded history man has gazed into space and yearned to explore. Beginning with the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, this unique book traces our quest to reach the moon. Through the inclusion of 200 stunning photographs and at least 15 beautifully recreated rare facsimile documents you will witness the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, experience the terrifying failures and stunning triumphs of the Apollo Mission...
In diesem Werk vermittelt Prof. Arnold Hanslmeier moderne und faszinierende astronomische Kenntnisse. Das Buch beginnt mit der Beschreibung des Ursprungs des Universums und reicht bis hin zu dunkler Materie, schwarzen Loechern und der Entstehung des Sonnensystems. Abgerundet wird es am Ende schliesslich durch die spannende Frage: Sind wir allein im Universum? In dem Buch, das aus einer an der Universitat Graz gehaltenen Vorlesung fur Studierende aller Fakultaten entstanden ist, erlautert der Au...
The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs - Primary Source Edition
by Professor Charles Darwin and T G 1833-1923 Bonney
Written by a foremost scholar of medieval literature, this book is designed to accompany the study of Chaucer. An introductory chapter places Chaucer and the 14th century into the proper literary and historical setting. The rest of the work is devoted to the poems themselves, exploring the poet's method and interpreting the stories in light of the period in which they were written.
Muslim philosophical activities on the cusp of the Safavid era (i.e., late 9th/15th and early 10th/16th centuries) have so far escaped the attention of modern scholars. In Iran, the city of Shiraz was the principal center of philosophy at this time, and it was here that Najm al-Din Mahmud al-Nayrizi (d. after 933/1526), whose life and works are the subject of this book, spent his formative years. An accomplished Shi'i scholars, Nayrizi engaged with Avicennan as well as Suhrawardian philosophy i...
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World traces the course of human ingenuity and innovation from the first crude stone tools of our earliest ancestors two and a half million years ago up to the early medieval period, drawing on the very latest research and discoveries, and addressing some of the most fundamental questions about our past. The seventy articles take us on an eye-opening and unusual journey through a panoply of inventions, some fundamental, others just intriguing or bizarr...
George Berkeley was considered "the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century". This hyperbolic statement refers both to Berkeley's life and thought; in fact, he always considered himself a pioneer called to think and do new things. He was an empiricist well versed in the sciences, an amateur of the mechanical arts, as well as a metaphysician; he was the author of many completely different discoveries, as well as a very active Christian, a zealous bishop and the apostle o...
Greek Science, Its Meaning for Us (Thales to Aristotle)
by Benjamin 1891-1974 Farrington
В забытой стране
by Д. Н. Логофет
Однодневная перепись населения г. Оренбур
by П.Н. Распопов
Durante la II guerra mondiale hanno avuto luogo numerosi risultati di rilievo nel campo della crittografia militare. Uno dei meno conosciuti e quello usato dal servizio di intelligence svedese, nei confronti del codice tedesco per le comunicazioni strategiche con i comandi dei paesi occupati nel nord Europa, le cui linee passavano per la Svezia. In tal modo, durante la fase piu critica della guerra la direzione politica e militare svedese era in grado di seguire i piani e le disposizioni dei Ted...
Поповский король. Генрих IV Распе. Ландграф Т&
by В.А. Бильбасов
This book concerns the origins of mathematical problem solving at the internationally active Osram and Telefunken Corporations during the golden years of broadcasting and electron tube research. The woman scientist Iris Runge, who received an interdisciplinary education at the University of Gottingen, was long employed as the sole mathematical authority at these companies in Berlin. It will be shown how mathematical connections were made between statistics and quality control, and between physic...