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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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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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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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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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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The Innermost Kernel
"The Innermost Kernel" recounts the physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli and his interest in Jungian psychology, ...
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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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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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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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Vegetative Powers
The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...
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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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