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978-1-4020-8323-5
A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple

The book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...

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978-3-540-32426-3
Algorithms and Computation (vol. # 3827)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2005, ...

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978-3-540-49696-0
Algorithms and Computation (vol. # 4288)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2006, ...

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978-3-540-92182-0
Algorithms and Computation : 19th International Symposium, ISAAC 2008, Gold Coast, Australia, December 15-17, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC 2008, ...

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978-0-387-77036-9
Analysis by Its History

This book presents first-year calculus roughly in the order in which it first was discovered. The first two chapters show ...

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978-1-4020-4293-5
Heaven Upon Earth

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

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978-0-387-75481-9
History of Mathematics : A Supplement

This book attempts to fill two gaps which exist in the standard textbooks on the History of Mathematics. One is to provide ...

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978-2-287-72083-3
La loi de la gravitation universelle Newton, Euler et Laplace : Le cheminement d’une révolution scientifique vers une science normale = The law of universal gravitation Newton, Euler and Laplace: The progress of a scientific revolution towards a normal science

An analysis of Newton's ideas dismisses this hypothesis by the simple fact that the Principia sought to demonstrate the ...

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978-3-030-47515-4
Large-Scale Cognitive Assessment Analyzing PIAAC Data

This methodological book summarises existing analysing techniques using data from PIAAC, a study initiated by the OECD that ...

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978-3-7643-7539-3
Leonhard Euler

Euler was not only by far the most productive mathematician in the history of mankind, but also one of the greatest scholars ...

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978-0-387-33062-4
Mathematical Masterpieces

Experience the discovery of mathematics by reading the original work of some of the greatest minds throughout history. Here ...

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978-0-387-71019-8
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 ...

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978-1-4020-6354-1
Scientific Progress : A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories

In this book, Craig Dilworth answers all the questions raised by the incommensurability thesis. Logical empiricism cannot ...

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978-0-387-49512-5
Thomas Harriots Artis Analyticae Praxis

The present work is the first ever English translation of the original text of Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis, ...

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978-1-4020-3048-2
Wrong for the Right Reasons

The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's ...

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