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Hardback. This is an analysis of the optical revolution in the context of early 20th-century Britain. Far from merely involving the replacement of one optical theory by another, the revolution also involved substantial changes in instruments and the practices that surround them. Series: Science and Philosophy. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; PDX; PHJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792363491
ISBN
9780792363491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.38

Hardback. Eclipses have long been seen as important celestial phenomena, whether as omens affecting the future of kingdoms, or as astronomical events to help in deriving essential parameters for theories of the motion of the moon and sun. This book collect together all known records of timed eclipse observations and predictions from antiquity onwards. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; PDX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792362982
ISBN
9780792362982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 324.92

Hardback. Deals with the origin of the modern conception of the object as well as the subject of music. Starting from the magic of numbers of Pythagorean and neo-Platonic doctrines, this volume leads the readers to 'sound' and 'affections' in modern terms. Editor(s): Gozza, Paolo. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360698
ISBN
9780792360698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.20

Hardback. Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was the winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology. This title contains annotated and edited biology papers dating from Metchnikoff's earliest writings to the texts of his mature period of the 1890s. It is useful for those interested in the historical development of evolutionary biology. Editor(s): Gourko, Helena; Williamson, D.; Tauber, Alfred I. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; PDX; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1150.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360674
ISBN
9780792360674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.54

Hardback. Presents aeronautical research and a range of mechanisms by which flight technology has advanced in the twentieth century. This book offers examinations of specific developments such as turbines and flight test equipment to investigations of patents policies and accident investigations. It is suitable for those in flight and aircraft design. Editor(s): Galison, Peter; Roland, Alex. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 383 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; PDX; TRP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 22. Weight in Grams: 871.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360377
ISBN
9780792360377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 344.56

Hardback. Focuses on the Proto-Scientific Revolution, which is that distinctive period, essentially High Renaissance in character, which paved the way for the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This work brings the works of Copernicus and Vesalius together, by placing them within the context of the Proto-Scientific Revolution as a whole. Editor(s): Freeland, Guy; Corones, Anthony. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 420 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792359135
ISBN
9780792359135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 203.99

Hardback. Deals with the Scientific Revolution, and the resistance encountered by new concepts. The book also looks at these new scientific concepts that rose out of several "centres" of European learning, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. Editor(s): Gavroglu, Kostas. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792355489
ISBN
9780792355489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.76

Hardback. In economics, the existence of capital is taken for granted, yet it is difficult to establish for it a robust definition. This title is an exploratory essay on the origins of capital and the foundations of thermodynamics. It is suitable for historians and philosophers of science and economics, and engineering thermodynamicists. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1170.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792347606
ISBN
9780792347606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.66

hardcover. Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus Editor(s): Theerman, Paul Harold; Parshall, Karen Hunger. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
1997th Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792344773
ISBN
9780792344773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.69

Hardback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Marketing of High Tech Know How, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1994 Editor(s): Rabkin, Yakov. Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 980.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
185
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792344568
ISBN
9780792344568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.23

hardcover. Offering an account of Lagrangian mechanics, this work uses the Principle of Virtual Work in conjunction with the Lagrangian Multiplier to solve the problems of statics. For the treatment of dynamics, a third concept had to be added to the first two - d'Alembert's Principle - in order to develop the Lagrangian equations of motion. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 639 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PHD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1072.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Edition
1997th Edition
Number of pages
639
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792343493
ISBN
9780792343493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 435.35

Hardback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Athens, Greece, November 23--25, 1994 Editor(s): Parissakis, George; Katsaros, Nikos. Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 4. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; JPQB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792335993
ISBN
9780792335993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 256.58

Hardback. Contains articles that were selected from the first five volumes of the "Journal of Dialectics of Nature" published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. Editor(s): Dainian, Fan; Cohen, Robert S. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 496 pages, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 863.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792334637
ISBN
9780792334637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 384.01

Hardback. This text gives a detailed record of Ludwig Boltzmann's life and philosophical thoughts during his final years, a period of major change in physics, needing a new methodology of theoretical, idealized science. Editor(s): Blackmore, John T. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJC; PDX; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792332312
ISBN
9780792332312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 212.63

Hardback. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; PN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 609.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792325871
ISBN
9780792325871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 284.05

Hardback. An understanding of developments in Arabic mathematics between the IXth and XVth century is vital to a full appreciation of the history of classical mathematics. This book highlights one of the major developments in Arabic mathematical thinking, provoked by the double fecondation between arithmetic and the algebra of al-Khwarizmi. Translator(s): Armstrong, Angela. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 392 pages, 22 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792325659
ISBN
9780792325659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 257.01

Hardback. The romantic concept of knowledge was decidedly unitary, but, in the period between 1790 and 1840, the special emphasis it placed on observation and research led to an unprecedented accumulation of data, accompanied by growth in scientific specialization. This book deals with the problem concerning the unitary concept of knowledge in that period. Editor(s): Poggi, Stefano; Bossi, Maurizio. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792323365
ISBN
9780792323365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.94

Hardback. A collection of twelve essays that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. It is suitable for musicologists, historians of science and those interested in interdisciplinary perspectives of the late Renaissance - early Baroque. Editor(s): Coelho, Victor Anand. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1230.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792320289
ISBN
9780792320289
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 200.98

Hardback. The papers in this work deal primarily with cognitive and social aspects of the interaction between science and technology. Instead of general "global" interpretation schemes and models, empirical case studies form the hard core of the book. Editor(s): Kroes, Peter; Bakker, Martijn. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792318989
ISBN
9780792318989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 234.66

Hardback. A collection of papers on philosophy of science, conceptual history of science, and sociology of science written by Taiwanese scholars. Included are essays on "Western" topics, as well as topics in the history of Chinese science. Editor(s): Lin, Cheng-hung; Fu, Daiwie. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792317661
ISBN
9780792317661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 201.53

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