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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
€ 66.95
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
€ 127.78
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
€ 228.88
Looking at it from Asia: the Processes That Shaped the Sources of Hist...
Florence . Ed(S): Bretelle-Establet
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
€ 251.17
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
€ 194.14
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
€ 127.78
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
€ 248.98
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
€ 252.04
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
€ 127.97
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
€ 229.28
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
€ 340.99
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
€ 61.40
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
€ 128.48
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
€ 128.72
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
€ 131.00
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
€ 128.05
Hardback. Argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. Editor(s): Gunergun, Feza; Raina, Dhruv. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 292 pages, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HB; MBX; PDA; PDX; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048199679
- ISBN
- 9789048199679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.82
€ 199.82
Hardback. This volume presents works which have been done in Brazil on the philosophy of science, logic and the history of science. It includes a general introduction, which offers a historical and conceptual guide about the development of the field in Brazil. Editor(s): Krause, Decio; Videira, Antonio. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048194216
- ISBN
- 9789048194216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.91
€ 134.91
Hardback. The Rationalists provides a balanced overview of those associated with the rationalist movement, presenting a sharper depiction of their intellectual contexts and sources. Topics range from theodicy and early modern music theory to Spinoza's anti-humanism. Editor(s): Fraenkel, Carlos; Perinetti, Dario; Smith, Justin E. H. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; PDA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 507.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048193844
- ISBN
- 9789048193844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.21
€ 132.21
Hardback. George Berkeley was considered 'the most engaging and useful man in Ireland in the eighteenth century'. This is a collection of essays that is written by some leading scholars, aim to reconstruct the complexity of Berkeley's figure, without selecting 'major' works, nor searching for 'coherence' at any cost. Editor(s): Parigi, Silvia. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048192427
- ISBN
- 9789048192427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 198.34
€ 198.34