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  • af Erik M Conway
    1.134,95 kr.

    This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this volume expand and revise Hughes¿ systems approach to suggest that electrification is a heterogeneous and contingent process. Moreover, the contributors suggest that the conquest of the world by electricity remains incomplete despite more than a century elapsing. Above all, though, this book provides context for thinking about what lies ahead as humans continue their conquest of the earth through electricity. As we become increasingly dependent on electricity to power our lights, heat and cool our homes, turn the wheels of industry, and keep our information systems humming, so we are ever more vulnerable when the grid runs into trouble.Chapter "Surveying the Landscape: The Oil Industry and Alternative Energy in the 1970s" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

  • af Gideon Manning
    1.207,95 - 1.410,95 kr.

  • af Kaveh Niazi
    819,95 - 878,95 kr.

  • af Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
    1.727,95 kr.

  • af Pietro Daniel Omodeo
    1.049,95 - 1.260,95 kr.

    This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on the case of the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. It investigates the broad context of that discussion, which was at once scientific, cultural, political and socio-institutional. Chapter by chapter, the book sheds light on the most relevant aspects of the environment of the time. It is aimed at historians of science and philosophy, as well as scholars investigating German-speaking Europe of the 17th century.

  • af Sophia Kalantzakos
    1.097,95 kr.

    This book examines the latest manifestations of resource competition. The energy transition and the digitalization of the global economy are both accelerating even as geopolitics driven by Sino-American hyper-competition become increasingly contentious. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, policy makers, institutional stakeholders, and industry experts to analyze not only the transition itself, but also the implications that the need for uninterrupted access to unprecedented levels of raw materials generates. By framing the challenges ahead for global society, governance, industry, international power politics, and the environment, the book asks hard questions about the choices that need to be made to reach net zero by mid-century. Moreover, it sheds light on different facets of the growing risks to what have been global interdependent supply chains in a way that is nuanced, balanced, and practical, thus pushing back on some of the most sensational headlines that breed confusion and may lead policymakers to make more narrow and less effective decisions. The volume is an outcome of ¿Rich Rocks, the Climate Crisis and the Tech-imperium¿ a Summer Institute at Caltech and the Huntington that took place in July 2021.

  • af Susanna Berger
    1.079,95 - 1.134,95 kr.

    This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the interaction between tradition and innovation in the early modern classroom, the site where traditional views of the world were transmitted to the generation that was to give birth to modern philosophy and science. Secondly, it draws together scholars who are centered on ideas and words with other scholars who focus on the role of images in the classroom and the intellectual world in this central period of history. The volume advances our understanding of how philosophy was understood and transmitted in this rich and crucial era. The principal audience for Teaching Philosophy are historians of science, philosophy, art, visual culture, and print culture. The chapters are written in a tone accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. It also reaches non-specialist readers interested in subjects including the "e;scientific revolution,"e; the organization of information, and Renaissance and Baroque visual art.

  • af Matthias Schemmel & William G. Boltz
    381,95 - 492,95 kr.

  • af Jed Z. Buchwald & A. Franklin
    878,95 kr.

  • af Wolfgang Lefèvre
    1.163,95 kr.

    This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge ¿ Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics ¿ which represent the main types of advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These six fields of technologically advanced knowledge and their interrelations and interactions with learned knowledge are investigated and discussed through a specific lens: by focusing on the technological literature.Among present-day historians of science, it hardly remains controversial that contact and exchange between educated and practical knowledge played a significant role in the development of the natural sciences and technology in early modern Europe. Several paths for such exchange arose from the late Middle Ages onward due to the formation of an economy of knowledge that fostered contacts and exchange between the two worlds. How can this development be adequately described and how, on the basis of such a description, can the significance of this process for the early modern history of knowledge in the West be assessed? These are the overarching questions this book tries to answer.There exists a considerable amount of literature concerning several stations and events in the course of this long development process as well as its various aspects. As meritorious and indispensable as many of these studies are, none of them tried to portray this process as a whole with its most essential branches. What is more, many of them implicitly or explicitly took physics as a model of science, and thus highlighted mechanics and mechanical engineering as the model of all interrelations of practical and learned knowledge. By contrast, this book aims at a more complete portrait of the early modern interrelations and interactions between learned and practical knowledge. It tries to convey a new idea of the variety and disunity of these relations by discussing and comparing altogether six widely different fields of knowledge and practice.The targeted audience of this book is first of all the historians of science and technology. As one of the peer reviewers suggested ¿ the book could very well become a textbook used for teaching the history of science and technology at universities. Furthermore, since the book addresses fundamental aspects of the significance emergence and development of modern science has for the self-image of the West, it can be expected that it will attract the attention and interest of a wider readership than professional historians.

  • af Robert B. Waide & Sharon E. Kingsland
    1.049,95 kr.

    This volume explores the challenges of sustaining long-term ecological research through a historical analysis of the Long Term Ecological Research Program created by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1980. The book examines reasons for the creation of the Program, an overview of its 40-year history, and in-depth historical analysis of selected sites. Themes explored include the broader impact of this program on society, including its relevance to environmental policy and understanding global climate change, the challenge of extending ecosystem ecology into urban environments, and links to creative arts and humanities projects. A major theme is the evolution of a new type of network science, involving comparative studies, innovation in information management, creation of socio-ecological frameworks, development of governance structures, and formation of an International Long Term Ecological Research Network with worldwide reach. The book's themes will interest historians, philosophers and social scientists interested in ecological and environmental sciences, as well as researchers across many disciplines who are involved in long-term ecological research.

  • af Laurent Mazliak & Rossana Tazzioli
    1.049,95 kr.

  • af Wolfgang Lefèvre
    1.172,95 kr.

    This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge ¿ Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics ¿ which represent the main types of advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These six fields of technologically advanced knowledge and their interrelations and interactions with learned knowledge are investigated and discussed through a specific lens: by focusing on the technological literature.Among present-day historians of science, it hardly remains controversial that contact and exchange between educated and practical knowledge played a significant role in the development of the natural sciences and technology in early modern Europe. Several paths for such exchange arose from the late Middle Ages onward due to the formation of an economy of knowledge that fostered contacts and exchange between the two worlds. How can this development be adequately described and how, on the basis of such a description, can the significance of this process for the early modern history of knowledge in the West be assessed? These are the overarching questions this book tries to answer.There exists a considerable amount of literature concerning several stations and events in the course of this long development process as well as its various aspects. As meritorious and indispensable as many of these studies are, none of them tried to portray this process as a whole with its most essential branches. What is more, many of them implicitly or explicitly took physics as a model of science, and thus highlighted mechanics and mechanical engineering as the model of all interrelations of practical and learned knowledge. By contrast, this book aims at a more complete portrait of the early modern interrelations and interactions between learned and practical knowledge. It tries to convey a new idea of the variety and disunity of these relations by discussing and comparing altogether six widely different fields of knowledge and practice.The targeted audience of this book is first of all the historians of science and technology. As one of the peer reviewers suggested ¿ the book could very well become a textbook used for teaching the history of science and technology at universities. Furthermore, since the book addresses fundamental aspects of the significance emergence and development of modern science has for the self-image of the West, it can be expected that it will attract the attention and interest of a wider readership than professional historians.

  • - A Nikki Doyle Novel
    af Longhurst Paula J Longhurst
    172,95 kr.

    It's supposed to be a simple pickup at Stansted airport but when the chauffeur's name is Nikki Doyle there is no such thing as 'simple'. There's a coffin in arrivals, a spy lurking at information, a psychiatrist in the car park and Nikki herself carrying a briefcase full of planted classified files. Someone is trying to implicate a missing presumed/dead Gavin Lancaster in the arms dealing operation he was investigating and Nikki, determined to clear her boyfriend's name isn't going to look before she leaps but this is no game and Nikki's actions could get people close to her killed.

  • - A Transformation through Implementation
    af Martin Jahnert
    767,95 - 1.097,95 kr.

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    1.266,95 kr.

    This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding. Indeed, there is hardly a single early modern figure who took a serious interest in one but not the other, with their attitudes toward body-mind interaction often revealed in acts of self-diagnosis and experimentation. The essays collected here specifically reveal the way experiment and especially self-experiment, combined with careful attention to the states of mind which accompany states of body, provide a new means of assessing attitudes to body-mind interactions just as they show the abiding interest and relevance of source material typically ignored by historians of science and historians of philosophy. In the surviving records of such experimenting on one¿s own body, we can observe leading figures like Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke, deliberately setting out to repeat pleasurable, or intellectually productive moods and states of mind, by applying the same medicine on successive occasions. In this way we can witness theories of the working of the human mind being developed by key members of an urban culture (London; interregnum Oxford) who based those theories in part on their own regular, long-term use of self-administered, mind-altering substances. It is hardly an overstatement to claim that there was a significant drug culture in the early modern period linked to self-experimentation, new medicines, and the new science. This is one of the many things this volume has to teach us.

  • - A Nikki Doyle Novel
    af Paula J Longhurst
    182,95 kr.

    Newly promoted Nikki Doyle's first case seems easy; stash a couple of lottery winners in deepest darkest Sussex. But the words 'Nikki' and 'easy' do not go together, and her mistake of using familiar territory could cause ructions in both her team and her family.

  • - Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton
    af Alan F. Chalmers
    1.134,95 kr.

    This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science.

  • af Russell McCormmach
    1.049,95 - 1.274,95 kr.

    This book explores the 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics. It traces aspects of his personality, views and interpretations of him, and explores notions of eccentricity and autism.

  • af Jean-Marc Ginoux
    1.728,95 - 2.131,95 kr.

  • - On the History of Theoretical Physics in Germany
    af Russell McCormmach & Christa Jungnickel
    1.730,95 - 2.567,95 kr.

    The authors explain the nature of the work of theoretical physics with many examples, taking care always to locate the research within the workplace.The book is a revised and shortened version of Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, a two-volume work by the same authors.

  • af Francesca Biagioli
    732,95 - 1.195,95 kr.

    However, such later scientific developments as non-Euclidean geometries and Einstein's general theory of relativity called into question the certainty of Euclidean geometry and posed the problem of reconsidering space as an open question for empirical research.

  • - Optics, Vision and Perspective from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries
    af Dominique Raynaud
    757,95 - 793,95 kr.

  • af Nathan Sivin
    750,95 - 1.515,95 kr.

    By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. This highly readable book builds on over forty years of study and analysis of early liturgical and medical writings and a wide variety of other sources.

  • af Erwin Hiebert
    697,95 - 990,95 kr.

    Dutch physicist Adriaan Daniel Fokker, who arranged for organs to be built based on 31-tones per octave, orchestrated concerts for these new instruments and even attempted to compose microtonal music, or music whose tonality is based on intervals smaller than the typical twelve semitones of Western music.

  • - A Comparison of Texts and Models
    af Kaveh Niazi
    447,95 - 1.028,95 kr.

    This book provides a detailed biography of Qutb al-Din Shirazi, a leading scientist of the 13th century, and clarifies the relationship between his three well-known, but little studied, medieval works on astronomy.

  • - The Vitae of Vittorino da Feltre and the Spirit of Humanism
    af Anja-Silvia Goeing
    1.071,95 - 1.328,95 kr.

    This book offers a novel approach to the life and work of Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c. 1378 - 1446), teacher of princes and educationalist of Italian Renaissance humanism. The authors examine perspectives created by his students and contemporaries.

  • - Mathematical life in late 16th century Antwerp
    af Ad Meskens
    812,95 - 827,95 kr.

    Describes the development and the ultimate demise of the practice of mathematics in sixteenth century Antwerp. The book touches on all aspects of practical mathematics from teaching and instrument making to the practice of building fortifications of the practice of navigation.

  • - Isaac Newton's Natural-Philosophical Methodology
    af Steffen Ducheyne
    1.433,95 kr.

    This monograph provides a historically detailed and philosophical study of Newton's scientific methodology. The text illustrates how Newton carefully distinguished between the physico-mathematical treatment and the physical treatment of force, and that the former should always precede the latter.

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