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Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital compute……続きを見る

A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change *Winner of a Nouvel Observateur Award, a Fondation pour l'écologie ……続きを見る

An insider’s account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars they orbit Are we alone in the universe? It’s a fundamental question for Earth-dw……続きを見る

Inspired by recent developments in dependent type theory and infinity categories, this book presents a history of ideas around the topics of truth, proof, equality and equivalence. Besides selected ……続きを見る

Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact hu……続きを見る

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes. The book shows that - even during the Nazi killing of the sick……続きを見る

Dieses Buch basiert auf dem Skript zu einer Vorlesung über endliche Modelltheorie an der Freien Universität Berlin und dient als eine kurze Einführung in das Thema. Vorausgesetzt wird dabei eine gew……続きを見る

“The dazzling clutch of scientific minds caught in mid-thought here makes for a read that provokes thought in its turn. Delights abound.” ーNature “What distinguishes scientists, in your eyes?” ーSt……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain. The years between 1800 and 1880 are often described as the emergence of mode……続きを見る

William Crookes was working late in his lab when he made the discovery that would become an obsession and the centerpiece of his life for the next several years. He discovered that when he brought a……続きを見る

Motiviert durch aktuelle Entwicklungen in der abhängigen Typentheorie und bei Unendlichkategorien präsentiert dieses Buch die Ideengeschichte der Begriffe Wahrheit, Beweis, Gleichheit und Äquivalenz……続きを見る

Parigi, inizio Ottocento: qui il giovane Descuret inizia la sua carriera di medico e attento investigatore della natura umana, nelle sue eccentricità e nei suoi disordini. Nato proprio dall’intrecci……続きを見る

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic nota……続きを見る

The implicit questions that inevitably underlie German bioethics are the same ones that have pervaded all of German public life for decades: How could the Holocaust have happened? And how can German……続きを見る

"Conhecimento é crença verdadeira justificada", pensavam importantes filósofos desde a Antiguidade. "Crença verdadeira justificada é conhecimento?", questionou o lendário Edmund Gettier em 1963. "Co……続きを見る

This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have……続きを見る

"Sternstunden der Menschheit", eine Sammlung von historischen Miniaturen, zählt zu den bekanntesten Werken Stefan Zweigs und vereint bedeutende historische Begebenheiten, die die Geschichte der Mens……続きを見る

Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Their breakthrough discoveries have revolutionised medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Nobel Life consists of original intervi……続きを見る

An examination of how bodies and sexualities have been constructed, categorised, represented, diagnosed, experienced and subverted from the fifteenth to the early twenty-first century. It draws atte……続きを見る

The 110 star clusters, nebulae and galaxies of Messier's catalog are among the most popular of all the deep sky objects and are beautiful targets for amateur observers of all abilities. This stunnin……続きを見る

A guide to changing how you think about numbers and mathematics, from the prodigy changing the way the world thinks about math. We all know math is important: we live in the age of big data, our liv……続きを見る

This book analyses an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem. It also provides key insights into epistemic contextualism, an important innovation in contemporary……続きを見る

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to……続きを見る

Una raccolta di biografie delle donne che hanno fatto la Storia della Matematica da Teano, moglie di Pitagora fino ai nostri giorni... Una panoramica storica e avvincente del difficile cammino dell'……続きを見る

Una grande avventura intellettuale. Piccola storia della matematica per insegnanti curiosi (il titolo rappresenta un omaggio a Dirk J. Struik e il sottotitolo ad Egmont Colerus, entrambi insigni sto……続きを見る

Esotismo, spirito d'avventura, sete di conoscenza e atmosfere che ricordano i romanzi di Emilio Salgari. A cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento, in piena epoca coloniale, le zone più selvagge e inesplo……続きを見る

At the center of Stefan Bargheer’s account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals ……続きを見る

Stefanie Gänger explores how medical knowledge was shared across societies tied to the Atlantic World between 1751 and 1820. Centred on Peruvian bark or cinchona, Gänger shows how that remedy and kn……続きを見る

This book describes the story of how a collaboration of several hundred physicists from Europe and North America formed in 1988 to design, construct, install, commission and operate, for the years 1……続きを見る

War die DDR ein »Friedensstaat«, ein »Leseland«, eine »Sportnation«? Nahm sie zu Recht für sich in Anspruch, ein »Hort des Antifaschismus« zu sein? Gab es wirklich eine Gleichberechtigung von Mann u……続きを見る