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Embark on a reflective journey with Sir Humphrey Davy's masterpiece, "Consolations in Travel or the Last Days of a Philosopher." Written during his final years, this philosophical dialogue invites r……続きを見る

République naturaliste examine la rencontre entre un petit objet d’histoire de la culture et des sciences, les collections d’histoire naturelle, et un événement colossal, la Révolution. Les années 1……続きを見る

“An edge-of-your-seat reading experience, kept especially engaging by [Kent's] warm personality, sense of humor, and keen behind-the-scenes-of-building-a-business stories.” ーParade In this breathta……続きを見る

Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid– eighteenth to the mid–nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, politica……続きを見る

The aim of this work is to respond to the following question: how did Charles S. Peirce find unity for his pragmatist philosophy through the formulation of Scholastic Realism? The author proposes th……続きを見る

This new selection from John Aubrey's enormous work of 17th-century biography, Brief Lives, brings together his writings on contemporary scientists, explorers and men of innovation, including astron……続きを見る

Computability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic co……続きを見る

In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology i……続きを見る

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thought Described by Voltaire as “perhap……続きを見る

”At der avles og fødes elefanter i fangenskab hører, som bekendt, til de største sjældenheder. End ikke i Indien, den ene af de nulevende elefantarters fødeland, drives der elefantavl; vil man have ……続きを見る

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Reading Pract……続きを見る

Aristotle was the first philosopher to divide the imaginationーwhat he called phantasiaーfrom other parts of the psyche, placing it between perception and intellect. A mathematician and philosopher ……続きを見る

Helt fra de iskolde poler til de hedeste ørkner og dybt nede på havets bund har klodens dyr formået at tilpasse sig selv de barskeste vilkår. J.O. Bøving Petersen og Waldemar Dreyers trebindsværk om……続きを見る

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to a remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932), which has enjoyed consi……続きを見る

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA’s Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex. Working primarily between 1950, the year……続きを見る

The Mesoamerican population who lived near the indigenous cultivation sites of the "Chocolate Tree" (Theobromo cacao) had a multitude of documented applications of chocolate as medicine, ranging fro……続きを見る

Dès que nous pensons, surgit la notion d'infini. Mais on ne peut plus le penser au singulier : des infinis d'ordres différents apparaissent aussi bien dans les mathématiques que dans les sciences de……続きを見る

Entertaining word problems that let verbal types master the language of math! Math is a universal language, but it’s also the least understood and most undervalued subject taught in school. Two Trai……続きを見る

Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true? Understanding the difference requires paying close attention to metaphor and its role in science. In……続きを見る

There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical discourseーwhether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition techno……続きを見る

How do we compare a Broadway musical to its Hollywood counterpart? A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era answers this question by exploring the symbiotic relationsh……続きを見る

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth……続きを見る

If asked to name an Australian woman scientist from the past, very few could. Let's change that. Histories of Australian science largely overlook women. Their absence gives the impression that, unti……続きを見る

_______________ 'An enthralling read ... fascinating ... the author pieces the jigsaw together in thriller style' - David O'Donoghue, Sunday Business Post 'This biography of aspirin has some crackin……続きを見る

This new second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals. Readers will fin……続きを見る

Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-ho……続きを見る

The Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles is the thesis that, necessarily, no two (concrete) objects differ only numerically. This is the weakest version of the Principle of Identity of Indiscerni……続きを見る

Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. It was a cru……続きを見る

Covering a range of metaphors from a diverse field of sciences, from cell and molecular biology to evolution, ecology, and biomedicine, Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences explores the posi……続きを見る

A behind-the-scenes look at how the military uses video game technology to train soldiers, treat veterans, and entice new recruits. How does the U.S. military train its soldiers for new forms of arm……続きを見る