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978-2-287-30322-7
Sophus Lie. Une pensée audacieuse

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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978-88-470-0817-5
Storie di cose semplici = Stories of simple things

The nut, the thread, the key, the ring, the mirror, the button and the sphere are simple things that we encounter every day, ...

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978-0-387-48811-0
Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth ...

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978-1-4020-5499-0
The English Galileo : Thomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics

The English Galileo, the first book in series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the ...

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978-1-137-60089-9
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain

This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth ...

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978-3-540-26986-1
The Innermost Kernel

"The Innermost Kernel" recounts the physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli and his interest in Jungian psychology, ...

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978-1-4020-6600-9
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927–1945 : Crossing Boundaries

The volume at hand traces the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics between ...

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978-3-030-00994-6
The Pathologisation of Homosexuality in Fascist Italy

The book highlights how the dictatorship operated in a low-key, shadowy and undetectable manner, bending pre-existing legislation. ...

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978-3-7643-7540-9
Two Cultures

Editor Kim Williams has assembled a group of notes where scholars contribute essays inspired by their contact with Prof David ...

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978-3-030-69709-9
Vegetative Powers

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...

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978-3-7643-8880-5
Virchows Eulogies : Rudolf Virchow in Tribute to his Fellow Scientists

Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) was a leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany in the second ...

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