Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...
Continue readingThis book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...
Continue readingThe book describes the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia. It demonstrates the evolution of ideas ...
Continue readingThis important examination of Morley’s struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding ...
Continue readingThis book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...
Continue readingEinstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...
Continue reading"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...
Continue readingCancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...
Continue readingThis groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...
Continue readingThis book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...
Continue readingThose convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...
Continue readingThis is the first volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve ...
Continue readingEinstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath tells the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins ...
Continue readingThe second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history ...
Continue readingThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...
Continue readingthe book develops the scientific theme of lunar geology, and therefore will be of use as background reading for undergraduate ...
Continue readingSubjects treated in Bhaskara’s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest ...
Continue readingSubjects treated in Bhaskara’s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest ...
Continue readingargues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer ...
Continue readingFinding words of wisdom about science is now easy with Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Organized thematically ...
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