Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is one of the greatest Norwegian figures in science. The notoriety that his work has earned him has ...
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Continue readingThis revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...
Continue readingThe English Galileo, the first book in series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the ...
Continue readingThis book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...
Continue reading"The Innermost Kernel" recounts the physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli and his interest in Jungian psychology, ...
Continue readingThe volume at hand traces the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics between ...
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Continue readingEditor Kim Williams has assembled a group of notes where scholars contribute essays inspired by their contact with Prof David ...
Continue readingThe volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...
Continue readingRudolph Virchow (1821-1902) was a leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany in the second ...
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