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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Science and the Shaping of Modernity Anik Waldow , Charles Wolfe This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukroger’s thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (1950–2023) was one of the preeminent specialists of early modern science and philosophy, particularly their interrelations... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2024-12-23 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies René Descartes's Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies Fabrizio Baldassarri This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemology, Descartes’s... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2024-01-01 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Johannes von Kries: Principles of the Probability Calculus Keith K. Niall This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. It offers a novel account of the foundations of probability, an account which was... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2023-08-29 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Agent Orange Alvin L. Young This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 – 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used in Vietnam. More than... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2022-07-25 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Responsibility of Science Harald A. Mieg This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses of the responsibility of science; second, analyses of the structural conditions for science and its responsibility; and... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2022-06-28 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 Lukas M. Verburgt This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse team of experts,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2022-04-12 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence Lukas M. Verburgt This is the first book to present a carefully chosen and annotated selection of the unpublished writings and correspondence of the English logician John Venn (1834-1923). Today remembered mainly as the inventor of the famous diagram that bears his name, Venn was an... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-11-25 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Force of an Idea Saulo De Freitas Araujo , Thiago Constâncio Ribeiro Pereira , Thomas Sturm This book presents, for the first time in English, a comprehensive anthology of essays on Christian Wolff's psychology written by leading international scholars. Christian Wolff is one of the towering figures in 18th-century Western thought. In the last decades, the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-07-16 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 168,79 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Empiricist Theories of Space Laura Berchielli This book explores the notions of space and extension of major early modern empiricist philosophers, especially Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Condillac. While space is a central and challenging issue for early modern empiricists, literature on this topic is sparse.This... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-11-03 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making Anil Bhatti , Johannes Feichtinger , Cornelia Hülmbauer This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move: challenging... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-03-02 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure Ian Wills This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that Edison's active pursuit of failure and innovative uses of failure as a tool were crucial to... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-01-01 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution Andrea Strazzoni This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-11-18 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 89,66 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Weyl and the Problem of Space Julien Bernard , Carlos Lobo This book investigates Hermann Weyl’s work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards. It presents new material and opens the philosophical problem of space anew, crossing the disciplines of mathematics, history of science and philosophy. With a Kantian... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-10-09 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period Frederik A. Bakker , Delphine Bellis , Carla Rita Palmerino This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-02-05 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Jean Le Rond D'Alembert: A New Theory of the Resistance of Fluids Julián Simón Calero In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d’Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-01-12 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Grete Hermann - Between Physics and Philosophy Guido Bacciagaluppi , Elise Crull Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy. She is best known for her work on the philosophy of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-09-30 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics Tzuchien Tho This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz’s dynamics project (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the concepts of physical causality in Leibniz’s work and 17th century physics. It argues that Leibniz’s theory of forces... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-06-29 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe John A. Schuster , Steven A. Walton , Lesley B. Cormack This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking). These are not in opposition,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-03-15 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Descartes' Treatise on Man and its Reception Delphine Antoine-Mahut , Stephen Gaukroger This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars that provide a detailed examination of L’Homme by René Descartes. It explores the way in which this work developed themes not just on questions such as the circulation of the blood, but also on central... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-01-16 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Boundaries, Extents and Circulations Jonathan Regier , Koen Vermeir 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 to a few canonical forms.This volume gives a much needed antidote. The... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-09-14 Collection : Studies in History and Philosophy of Science PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
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