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Geometry and Monadology: Leibniz’s Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space

Reconstructs, from both historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz’s geometrical studies, focusing in particular ...

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean ...

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian ...

John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought

This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of ...

La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs = The correspondence between Henri Poincaré and physicists, chemists and engineers

Cosmic microwave background radiation is the residue of the great heat following the Big Bang. A tenuous sign, over 13 billion ...

Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?

The chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the ...

Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences

This is book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and ...

Melting Hadrons, Boiling Quarks - From Hagedorn Temperature to Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at CERN : With a Tribute to Rolf Hagedorn

This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in ...

New Narratives in Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

The eighteenth century has long been considered critical for the development of modern chemistry, yet many crucial features ...

Open Skies The National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Its Impact on US Radio Astronomy

This book on the history of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory covers the scientific discoveries and technical innovations ...

Paleoradiology : Imaging Mummies and Fossils

Paleoradiology is the use of X-rays and advanced medical imaging modalities in the evaluation of ancient human and animal ...

Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe : Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange

This volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern ...

Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons ...

Random Curves : Journeys of a Mathematician

These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital ...

Recollections of "Tucson Operations"

This book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. ...

Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and ...

Rise of the Self-Replicators

In this book the authors provide a chronological survey and comprehensive archive of the early history of thought about machine ...

Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy

Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich’s ...

Science and its History : A Reassessment of the Historiography of Science

Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable ...

Shaping Natural History and Settler Society

It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, ...

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