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History of science
Results 1841 - 1860 of 1948
History of science
paperback. Editor(s): Gavroglu, Kostas; Christianidis, Y.; Nicolaidis, Efthymios (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece). Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 472 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PBX; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1994th Edition
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048142644
- ISBN
- 9789048142644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.78
€ 68.78
Paperback. DNA profiling is often heralded as unassailable criminal evidence, a veritable "truth machine" that can overturn convictions based on eyewitness testimony, confessions, and other forms of forensic evidence. This book traces the controversial history of DNA fingerprinting by looking at court cases in the US and UK from the mid-1980s onwards. Num Pages: 416 pages, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: JKVF1; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226498072
- ISBN
- 9780226498072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.00
€ 34.99
€ 28.00
Paperback. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPL; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1996
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048146925
- ISBN
- 9789048146925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Paperback. In "Moby-Dick", Ishmael declares, 'Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me'. This book recovers the story of Maurice versus Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the biblically sanctioned-view that the whale was a fish. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 color plates. 19 halftones. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146157
- ISBN
- 9780691146157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; PDX; PHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 179 x 35. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226294797
- ISBN
- 9780226294797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.12€ 79.61
€ 95.12
€ 79.61
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1921
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662318126
- ISBN
- 9783662318126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.71
€ 71.71
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 4. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1845
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662318195
- ISBN
- 9783662318195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.12
€ 70.12
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 130 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1924
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662318188
- ISBN
- 9783662318188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.90
€ 70.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HP; PDA; PDX; PDZ; PHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781468467376
- ISBN
- 9781468467376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.89
€ 126.89
Hardback. This book offers a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances, and traces the development of the concept from Plato to Descartes to Kant, and on through recent theorists as diverse as Wittgenstein, Benjamin and Bachelard. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 542 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 973.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400765061
- ISBN
- 9789400765061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.27
€ 197.27
Paperback. This book offers a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances, and traces the development of the concept from Plato to Descartes to Kant, and on through recent theorists as diverse as Wittgenstein, Benjamin and Bachelard. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 542 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400793897
- ISBN
- 9789400793897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 196.07
€ 196.07
Hardback. Despite their apparent simplicity, pendulums can be remarkably complicated. This book offers a wide ranging exploration of them. It examines the concept of simple pendulums, the application of pendulums to clocks and how pendulums are used for occult purposes. Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PB; PDX; PDZ; PHD; TGMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400714144
- ISBN
- 9789400714144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. This title uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between science and nationalism in Republican China. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFN; PDX; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226090405
- ISBN
- 9780226090405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 43.30
€ 54.99
€ 43.30
Paperback. Series: Astronomers' Universe. Num Pages: 257 pages, 34 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PGC; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 403.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319082127
- ISBN
- 9783319082127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 33.91
€ 41.99
€ 33.91
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
. Ed(S): Feingold, Mordechai; Navarro-Brotons...
Hardback. Offers a comprehensive synthesis of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their contribution to the critical dialogue that vitalized the emergent European scientific community. This title also offers a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers. Editor(s): Feingold, Mordechai; Navarro-Brotons, Victor (University of Valencia). Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBT; JNMN; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402039744
- ISBN
- 9781402039744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 200.17
€ 200.17
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
. Ed(S): Feingold, Mordechai; Navarro-Brotons...
paperback. Editor(s): Feingold, Mordechai; Navarro-Brotons, Victor (University of Valencia). Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBT; JNMN; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 451.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048170043
- ISBN
- 9789048170043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.53
€ 194.53
Hardcover. This history of atomic and nuclear physics shows how technological advances have enabled physicists to probe the physical properties of nuclei, offering the reader a clear understanding of how theory is inextricably intertwined with the progress of technology. Num Pages: 530 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHM; PNRL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 979.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 533
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461441809
- ISBN
- 9781461441809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.18
€ 70.18
Unravelling the Mystery of the Atomic Nucleus: A Sixty Year Journey 18...
Fernandez, Bernard; Ripka, Georges
paperback. This history of atomic and nuclear physics shows how technological advances have enabled physicists to probe the physical properties of nuclei, offering the reader a clear understanding of how theory is inextricably intertwined with the progress of technology. Num Pages: 548 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHM; PNRL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 831.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781489985620
- ISBN
- 9781489985620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.43
€ 69.43
Paperback / so. Series: Die Volksernahrung. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: MBN; PDX; TDCT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 77.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1923
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662341766
- ISBN
- 9783662341766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.06
€ 70.06
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 90 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDX; PSAF; TVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 145.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1878
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 90
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662318034
- ISBN
- 9783662318034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 92.65
€ 92.65