Correspondance Avec Les Amis Genevois (Histoire Des Sciences - Textes)
by Jerome Lalande
Science, Technology, and Innovation in Chile
by Robert M Adam, Janet E Halliwell, and Larry P Milligan
Secrets of the Moon: Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface provides a unique account of the origin of key features on the lunar surface. Containing historical accounts and the latest observations from the field, in addition to exciting data from the Apollo manned missions, it describes the development of our current understanding of our Moon. It also explores the fracturing of the Moon, a topic not explored in other literature in the area, and contains a statistical treatment of the smal...
Исторический очерк Сербского государств&
by С.Н. Палаузов
Historia da ciencia luso-brasileira
by Carlota Simoes, Decio Martins, and Carlos Fiolhais
Space exploration has fascinated us since the launch of the first primitive rockets more than 3,000 years ago, and it continues to fascinate us today. The data gathered from such exploration has been hugely instrumental in furthering our understanding of our universe and our world. In Space Flight: History, Technology, and Operations, author Lance K. Erickson offers a comprehensive look at the history of space exploration, the technology that makes it possible, and the continued efforts that pro...
Жизнь графа Сперанского. Том 1. Части 1-2. Count Speranskii Life . Volume 1. Part (Russian History Books)
by М. А. Корф
Das Geschichtsbild Der Ilias (Hypomnemata, #163)
by Jonas Grethlein
English summary: Phenomenological and narratological approaches are the basis on which the idea of history in the Iliad is analysed. The first part examines the relations of the heroes to the past. The second part reads the narrative form of the Iliad as an expression of the underlying idea of history. German description: Bereits vor und auch jenseits von Geschichtsschreibung vergegenwartigen sich Menschen ihre Vergangenheit. In der Memoria der antiken Griechen nahm die Ilias einen herausragende...
A History of Chinese Science and Technology
A History of Chinese Science and Technology (Voulumes 1, 2 & 3) presents 44 individual lectures, beginning with Ancient Chinese Science and Technology in the Process of Human Civilizations and An Overview of Ancient Chinese Science and Technology, and continuing with in-depth discussions of several issues in the history of science and the Needham Puzzle, interspersed with topics on Astronomy, Arithmetic, Agriculture, and Medicine, The Four Great Inventions, and various technological areas closel...
Barcelone, Genes Et Marseille (Terrarum Orbis, #10)
by Guenievre Fournier-Antonini
Ground-Work (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Memoirs of a Proof Theorist: Godel and Other Logicians
by Mariko Yasugi and Nicholas Passell
This volume is a translation of the book Goedel, written in Japanese by Gaisi Takeuti, a distinguished proof theorist. The core of the book comprises a memoir of K Goedel, Takeuti's personal recollections, and his interpretation of Goedel's attitudes towards mathematical logic. It also contains Takeuti's recollection of association with some other famous logicians. Everything in the book is original, as the author adheres to his own experiences and interpretations. There is also an article on Hi...
Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deployment of the concept of nihilism within the discourses of philosophical and aesthetic modernism and considers the similarities and differences between modernist and postmodernist approaches to nihilism.
Русское кузнечное ремесло в золотоордынс
by В.И. Завьялов, Л.С. Розанова, and Н.Н. Терехова
This collection of papers resulted from a series of Rochester Conferences, the international state-of-the-art reviews, occuring initially yearly and later at two-year intervals. Their proceedings particularly in the earlier years provide a more informal and consequently a more realistic account of how physicists think. The author, a theorist, endeavoured to acknowledge appropriately the immense importance of experimental ingenuity and persistence in the development of high-energy physics, though...
The Scientific Traveller
by Charles Tanford and Jacqueline A Reynolds
Full of intriguing information on historical sites relating to scientific discoveries in Europe, including Eastern Europe and Russia. Covers locales from all periods in history such as cave paintings in the Vezere Valley, France; Einstein's apartment in Bern, Switzerland; wall depictions of the Periodic Table in St. Petersburg; Stonehenge in Great Britain. Features contemporary institutions and museums including their hours of operation, maps, general directions from central locations, plus exte...
Technology and Society (Inside Technology) (Technology and Society)
Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretic...