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Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore ...

This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the ...

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

This important examination of Morley’s struggle for personal and professional legitimacy extends and transforms our understanding ...

This book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, ...

Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...

This groundbreaking, book analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases ...

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. ...

This is the first volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve ...

Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath tells the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins ...

The second edition of this landmark encyclopaedia will contain approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history ...

This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking ...

the book develops the scientific theme of lunar geology, and therefore will be of use as background reading for undergraduate ...

Subjects treated in Bhaskara’s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest ...

Subjects treated in Bhaskara’s commentary range from computing the volume of an equilateral tetrahedron to the interest ...

argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer ...

Finding words of wisdom about science is now easy with Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Organized thematically ...

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