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Hardback. In recent decades, there has been much controversy over the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This volume brings together papers from many of the leading scholars of Leibniz's thought, all of which deal with the cluster of questions surrounding Leibniz's philosophy of body. Editor(s): Smith, Justin E. H.; Nachtomy, Ohad. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400700406
ISBN
9789400700406
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

Paperback. The author of this book offers a uniquely comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. He has drawn on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others to produce a challenging work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400705333
ISBN
9789400705333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 131.00

Hardback. This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), and shows how Fabri, contrary to popular conception, reinterpreted medieval concepts to adapt to emerging concepts of modern science. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GBC; HPC; JF; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 595.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400716049
ISBN
9789400716049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.72

Hardback. Offering a variety of perspectives, this volume combines general reflections on the current state of history and philosophy of science with studies of the relationships between the two disciplines in specific historical and scientific cases. Editor(s): Schmaltz, Tad; Mauskopf, Seymour. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2011
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400717442
ISBN
9789400717442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.48

Paperback. Nature of science (NOS) is considered to be an useful part of HPS with important implications for teaching science. This monograph provides students and teachers guidelines for introducing various aspects of NOS, based on historical episodes. Series: SpringerBriefs in Education. Num Pages: 43 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNT; JNU; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 111 x 6. Weight in Grams: 98.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
43
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400719194
ISBN
9789400719194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.40

Hardback. Famed among physicists and astronomers for his anticipation of black holes, John Michell lived a double life-as a clergyman and an experimenting scientist. This, his first full biography, tells his story and includes a complete edition of his known letters. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 490 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: BGT; HPC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 892.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2012
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400720213
ISBN
9789400720213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 340.99

Hardcover. Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy. This volume details the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies. Editor(s): Normandin, Sebastien; Wolfe, Charles T. Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences. Num Pages: 383 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 712.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400724440
ISBN
9789400724440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 229.28

Hardback. This book examines the Lysenko controversy. It covers the interwar eugenics movement, the Scopes Trial, the popularity of Lamarckism as a theory of heredity prior to the synthesis of genetics and Natural Selection, and the Cold War. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400728394
ISBN
9789400728394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardback. This is the first account of the incorporation of insects in considerations of conservation, tracing the genesis of the discipline and its acceptance as a component of biodiversity conservation. Covers current and future scenarios and priorities for progress. Editor(s): New, Tim R. Num Pages: 436 pages, 10 black & white tables, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSVT7; RNC; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 830.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400729629
ISBN
9789400729629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 252.04

Paperback. This book traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. It shows the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority. Editor(s): Jones, Alexander. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; PDX; PG; RGW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400730861
ISBN
9789400730861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 248.98

Paperback. A key result of the contemporary study of discovery and creativity concerns the availability of descriptive and normative models for explaining discovery and creative processes. This book addresses these models and the changes they induced within methodology. Editor(s): Nickles, Thomas. Series: Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400731523
ISBN
9789400731523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Paperback. These essays explore the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. From the 16th to the 20th centuries, they examine the formation and changing geographies of such scientific centers as museums, laboratories and world fairs. Editor(s): Meusburger, Peter; Livingstone, David; Jons, Heike. Series: Knowledge and Space. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; PDX; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400732261
ISBN
9789400732261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.14

Paperback. The idea for this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. The subject area is unique and the book can be used as supplemental reading for the history of science in 'non-western' countries. Editor(s): Bretelle-Establet, Florence. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 472 pages, 17 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GL; HB; JFC; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 659.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400732490
ISBN
9789400732490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 251.17

Paperback. Plato's concept of the world as a cosmic living being, possessed of a soul, was vital to the Stoic and Neo-Platonic philosophers, but faded with the rise of Leibniz and the rationalists. This book discusses how and why the German Romantics of the late 1700s and early 1800s came back to embrace the existence of the world soul. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 449 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; HRAB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
449
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400734265
ISBN
9789400734265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 228.88

Paperback. In recent decades, there has been much controversy over the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This volume brings together papers from many of the leading scholars of Leibniz's thought, all of which deal with the cluster of questions surrounding Leibniz's philosophy of body. Editor(s): Smith, Justin E. H.; Nachtomy, Ohad. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 321.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400734845
ISBN
9789400734845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.78

Hardcover. Bringing together contributions from leading experts, and offering much-needed insight, this book analyses historical problems in the use of mathematics in physics, the use of physics in mathematics and the emergence of the discipline of Mathematical Physics. Editor(s): Barbin, E.; Pisano, Raffaele. Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; PBX; PDX; PHU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 240 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400753792
ISBN
9789400753792
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. An overview of the history of astroparticle physics, starting with the discovery of cosmic rays (Victor Hess, 1912) and its background (X-ray, radioactivity). Editor(s): Falkenburg, Brigitte; Rhode, Wolfgang. Num Pages: 346 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PGC; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400754218
ISBN
9789400754218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.76

Hardcover. This book presents a new view of the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, offering a richer frame for understanding practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. The focus is on public virtues and the fact that law depends on political power. Editor(s): Huppes-Cluysenaer, Liesbeth; Coelho, Nuno M. M. S. Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Num Pages: 289 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; LAB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400760301
ISBN
9789400760301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.75

Paperback. Series: Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 107 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBK5; JMU; PDX; TGBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 5. Weight in Grams: 183.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
107
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400770638
ISBN
9789400770638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.10

Hardback. Explanation in the Special Sciences Editor(s): Kaiser, Marie I.; Scholz, Oliver; Plenge, Daniel; Huttemann, Andreas. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400775626
ISBN
9789400775626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.61

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