The Papers of Thomas A. Edison (The Papers of Thomas A. Edison)
by Reese V. Jenkins
Galileo's 1632 book, "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican", comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that the earth revolves around the sun, Galileo's masterpiece takes the form of a debate, divided into four 'days,' among three highly articulate gentlemen. Finocchiaro sets the stage with his introduction, which not only provides th...
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed disciplinary or surveillance functions. Variously ascribed to artisanal genius, inexplicable cosmic forces, or demonic powers, these marvelous fabrications raised fundamental ques...
The Arctic (What Everyone Needs To Know (R))
by Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall
As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the consequences of Earth's warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that has begun to melt, which threatens ice-dependent microorganisms and, eventually, will disrupt all of Arctic life. In The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer a concise introduction to the circumpolar North, fo...
Нумизматика или история монет древних, срk
by А.П. Бутковский
Osiris, Volume 37 (Osiris)
Highlights the importance of translation for the global exchange of medical theories, practices, and materials in the premodern period. This volume of Osiris turns the analytical lens of translation onto medical knowledge and practices across the premodern world. Understandings of the human body, and of diseases and their cures, were influenced by a range of religious, cultural, environmental, and intellectual factors. As a result, complex systems of translation emerged as people crossed lingu...
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The Beginning of the Path to Human Extinction, and HOW TO GET OFF IT - Notes on a Paradigm Shift
by Scott Haley
Очерк истории Литовско-Русского государс
by М. К. Любавский
Schreiben im Forschen (Historische Wissensforschung Essay, #1)
by Christoph Hoffmann
Wenn Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler forschen, sind sie immer auch am Schreiben. Ob im Labor oder im Archiv, im Feld oder im Buro, mal formalisierter, mal individuell gepragt, begleiten Aufzeichnungen alle ihre Tatigkeiten. Welche Rolle spielt das Schreiben im Forschungsprozess? Geht es nur darum, schnell eine Literaturstelle festzuhalten oder seine Beobachtungen zu notieren, entlasten diese Schreibereien bloss das Gedachtnis oder leisten sie noch mehr? Mit diesen Fragen beschaftigt sic...
The Little Book of Big History is an endeavor to encapsulate the entire story of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the current day, into an engaging and comprehensive narrative. Combining methods from history, astronomy, physics, and biology to draw together the big story arcs of how the universe was created, why planets formed, and how life developed, the result is a unique perspective of mankind's place in the universe. Excited by the alternative "framework for all knowledge" that is offered...
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 799-804