The Geometry of an Art
This monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 ...
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The Legacies of Richard Popkin
Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) transformed the study of the history of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. ...
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The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux
This book is about the evolution of these machines and the inv- tors and engineers who created them from the early Renaissance ...
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The Novikov Conjecture
These lecture notes contain a guided tour to the Novikov Conjecture and related conjectures due to Baum-Connes, Borel and ...
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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, ...
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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800
This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...
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Web Archiving
The public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media. The raw nature ...
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