R.E.C - History 1

Les Mayas ont laissé des milliers d’équations calendaires. Cet ouvrage raconte leur redécouverte, et présente la méthodologie interdisciplinaire utilisée pour les traduire et éprouver leurs possible……続きを見る

Alors que le monde industrialisé pensait en avoir fini avec la question des subsistances, la Seconde Guerre mondiale replace l’agriculture et l’alimentation au cœur des enjeux de la reconstruction. ……続きを見る

Ce livre retrace l’histoire méconnue de l’ingénierie de l’élevage (bovins, ovins, caprins) en France entre 1962 et 2022. S’appuyant sur des entretiens et des archives inédites, il relate les métamor……続きを見る

This new edition presents the essential topics in probability and statistics from a rigorous standpoint. Any discipline involving randomness, including medicine, engineering, and any area of scienti……続きを見る

"Sobre os Ombros de Gigantes" traça um paralelo entre a evolução da física e a nossa própria história social. A física de que esse livro trata não é aquela da escola, repleta de fórmulas e conceitos……続きを見る

Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to human even……続きを見る

This book examines the meat provision system of Rio de Janeiro from the 1850s to the 1930s. Until the 1920s, Rio was Brazil’s economic hub, main industrial city, and prime consumer market. Meat cons……続きを見る

This book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and solar energy in the U.S. Aden B. Meinel and Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the co……続きを見る

This book is focused on the first three parts of Bolzano's Theory of Sciene and introduces a more systematic reconsideration of Bolzano's logial thought. In undertaking this task, the book is intend……続きを見る

In this smart, playful, and provocative book, one of today’s most original business thinkers argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in and throug……続きを見る

This book challenges the views put forward by Pierre Cartier, one of the anchors of the famous Bourbaki group, and Cédric Villani, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who rec……続きを見る

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a ninete……続きを見る

The clash of faith and science in Napoleonic France The Dendera zodiacーan ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planetsーwas first discovered by the Fre……続きを見る

Non lo chiamavano ancora così, “pi greco”, né tantomeno usavano quello che oggi consideriamo un simbolo universale, π; ma Egizi e Sumeri sapevano che il rapporto tra il diametro e la circonferenza d……続きを見る

Prima l’ascesa, luminosa. Poi la rapidissima caduta, disastrosa. Tutto nei primi anni del Novecento. Il lungo rapporto tra la scienza e l’Europa tocca il suo apice all’inizio del XX secolo, quando n……続きを見る

'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material. A text that could only be written by those who know the life and work of Ettore Majorana ……続きを見る

Questo è un avvenimento grande, come lo sarebbe il trasferimento del Vaticano da Roma nel nuovo mondo. Il papa della fisica trasloca, gli Stati Uniti diventeranno il centro della scienza. (Paul Lang……続きを見る

Pochi lo ammettono. Ma l’Europa è l’ultimo dei continenti connessi a scoprire la scienza. Quando nell’anno 1202 scrive il Liber abaci, il pisano Leonardo Fibonacci non porta nel piccolo continente s……続きを見る

Die Festschrift Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte, herausgegeben von Helmuth Albrecht, erschien aus Anlass des 25-jährigen Jubiläums der Gründung des Stuttgarter Lehrstuhls für Geschic……続きを見る

This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a phi……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

In 1759 the botanist and scientist Vitaliano Donati led an expedition to Egypt under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia, to acquire Egyptian antiquities for the Museum in Turin. Ch……続きを見る

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the……続きを見る

Modern research has demonstrated that many stars are surrounded by planetsーsome of which might contain the right conditions to harbor life. This has only reinforced a question that has been torment……続きを見る

This book is not a conventional history of mathematics as such, a museum of documents and scientific curiosities. Instead, it identifies this vital science with the thought of those who constructed ……続きを見る

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries ……続きを見る