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Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany

This work is to counter historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices ...

Galileo Galilei - When the World Stood Still

"I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years ...kneeling before you Most Eminent and Reverend ...

Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

This book It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, ...

Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela

This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood ...

Heaven Upon Earth

THE HISTORY OF BRITISHAPOCALYPTICTHOUGHT The study of early modern Britain between the Reformation of the 1530s and the Wars ...

Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial ...

Indian Agriculture Towards 2030 : Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems

The book comprises of ten contributions. Apart from the overview chapter on transformational change and the concluding chapter ...

Industry 4.0 for SMEs Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements

This book explores the concept of Industry 4.0, which presents a considerable challenge for the production and service sectors. ...

Lenses and Waves

this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens’ mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its ...

Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa

This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make ...

Quirky Sides of Scientists : True Tales of Ingenuity and Error From Physics and Astronomy

This enlightening book clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific ...

Re-Configurations Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa

This book title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary ...

Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity

This second volume of ReConFort, addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses concerning ...

Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison : Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?

The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance ...

Society 5.0 A People-centric Super-smart Society

This book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which ...

The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum Opportunities and Challenges in Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing

The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, ...

The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education

This book is discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities ...

The Genesis of General Relativity

Represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical ...

The Onlife Manifesto : Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this ...

The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

The papers in this collection focus on patterns of change in natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, aiming to encourage ...

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