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Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift

This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species and four decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive approach i...

The Other Europe

French aeronautics shone brightly in the first decade of the twentieth Century, but declined after the Great War. To remedy this situation, a new Ministry of Air launched in 1929 a large national p...

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

Aufsätze.- Die Maschinen des deutschen Berg- und Hüttenwesens vor 100 Jahren.- Henry Rossiter Worthington. Skizze eines Ingenieurlebens.- Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der Allgemeinen Elektricität...

This book presents a recasting of Aristotle's theory of spatial displacement of inanimate objects. Aristotle's claim that projectiles are actively carried by the media through which they move (such...

This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space t...

Texts examined include Robert (1551), Henry Billingsley's first English translation of the (1570), by William Oughtred and by Thomas Harriot (both published in 1631), Isaac Barrow's versions of the...

This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The...

This book is a biography of a scientist who pioneered the development of plant pathology in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century, and was internationally acclaimed. After 20 years as a plan...

The Authors of the Commentaries

Eine Systematisierung planerischen Wissens

Anlass der vorliegenden Arbeit war die sogenannte 2001 in Deutschland und insbesondere die Positionierung ,,Professoren mahnen zur Vernunft in der Agrarpolitik". Gemahnt wurde jedoch nicht von Prof...

Was Amalie Dietrich, eine naturwissenschaftliche Sammlerin des 19. Jahrhunderts, für eine multidisziplinäre Auseinandersetzung heute so interessant macht, ist die besondere Quellenlage: Neben den v...

Volume 2

A Basis for Statistics and Quantum Theory

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quel...

The Transformation of Astrobiology in the Early Modern Period

Aimed at an international readership, this book offers a representative collection of essays by the German philosopher, Georg Picht (1913-1982), who was a specialist in Greek philosophy, practical ...

This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Epidemiology has exerted major influence on the way that both infectious and chronic diseases are con...

In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the...

In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the...

History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important? Given that the computer, as we now know it, came into existence less than 70 years ago it might seem a little...

performing ?rms were curtailed following the stock market decline and the subsequent economic slowdown of 2001 and 2002. The Federal Government was once the main source of the nation's R&D funds, f...

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system. Suman Fernando weaves the histories of racial discourse and clinical practice into a narrative of power, knowledge, and blac...

Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century

This book provides a unique personal perspective on the field of peace research. It not only highlights Luc Reychler's significant contributions to the theory and praxis of sustainable peacebuildin...

Scientific and Technological Literature – 1450–1750

Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu)

This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways...

Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle every step of the way. It was the most vivid and ...

Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780-1970

This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor...

Robert Hooke's Natural Philosophy

This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon's (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was...

This book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, Lond...

Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain

Nach einer Einführung in die Grundlagen der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung werden die gängigen statistischen Methoden und Verfahren der Datenanalyse vorgestellt: das Likelihood-Konzept, die Methode de...

This multidisciplinary book provides new insights and hope for sustainable prosperity given recent developments in economics - but only if swift and strong actions consistent with Earth's biophysic...

1 A BME View to the New Realities of TGIS.- 1.1 Introducing a Temporal Geographical Information System (TGIS).- 1.1.1 Purposefulness, Content, and Context.- 1.1.2 Synthesis, Organization, and Visua...

States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period

A Historical Analysis

Genetics and Agriculture in the Soviet Union and Beyond

The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Science since 1660

A Great Scientist With Extraordinary Peculiarities

The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and ...

Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique

A Trip to the Reactor