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Cambridge University Press American Science and Modern China 18761936
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Cambridge University Press Charles Blacker Vignoles Romantic Engineer
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Cambridge University Press The General History of Astronomy Volume 4 Astrophysics and TwentiethCentury Astronomy to 1950 Part a
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Cambridge University Press Puzzles Problems and Enigmas Occasional Pieces on the Human Aspects of Science
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Cambridge University Press Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Explorers of the Southern Sky A History of Australian Astronomy
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Cambridge University Press War Against Smallpox
Book SynopsisMichael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner''s achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by medical men and parents, the children put arm-to-arm across the world, and the early challenges, successes and disappointments. He presents vaccination as a quiet revolution, genuinely emancipatory, but also the sharp end of growing state power. By the end of the war in 1815, millions of children had been vaccinated. The early success of the war against smallpox paved the way to further advances towards eradication.Trade Review'It's as commonplace as it is true to say that infectious disease knows no borders. In War Against Smallpox, Michael Bennett offers us something immeasurably more intriguing: the border crossing of vaccination. Bennett follows this strange procedure's rapid-fire travels from London to Spain, India, the Cape, the New World, China and beyond. And as if that intercontinental story is not fascinating enough, it all took place either side of 1800, as the global Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars wrenched the world into a new century. A major new global history. The world connected arm-to-arm.' Alison Bashford, University of New South Wales'A valuable account by a leading scholar of the subject, one that skilfully links the global range of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century engagement with smallpox. The global spread of vaccination illustrates more general points about processes of learning, information, technology and diffusion. Methodologically acute and conceptually significant.' Jeremy Black, University of Exeter'This impressive culmination of 15 years of research minutely details the international spread not of variola virus, but of its containment.' Kate Womersley, The Spectator'This book gives fascinating insight into the challenges of disseminating scientific information at a time of international conflict and in the face of opposing campaigns of misinformation …' Tim Mason, British Society for the History of Medicine (www.bshm.org.uk)'An incredible journey, with walk-on parts for Napoleon, Jefferson and the tsar of Russia.' Gareth Williams, BBC History Magazine'Bennett's work draws on a huge body of primary and secondary literature to create a coherent story of the spread of vaccination around the globe … Nevertheless, Bennett's work has a much wider implication, providing historians with a model of how (and how successfully) ideas and practices moved around in the early nineteenth century, just before the emergence of the modern profession with its expectations of the rapid exchange of new knowledge through medical journals and societies.' Deborah Brunton, Social History of Medicine'This is an important book published at an appropriate time.' Niels Brimnes, Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. A Tale of Two Diseases: Smallpox and Cowpox; 2. Fire with Fire: Smallpox Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century; 3. Good Tidings from the Farm: Jenner and the Cowpox Discovery; 4. National Mobilisation: Vaccination in Britain and Ireland; 5. Vaccine Diaspora: Medical Networks in a World at War; 6. The Vaccine's Conquest of Napoleonic Europe; 7. The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe; 8. Across the Pyrenees: Vaccination in Spain and Portugal; 9. Romanovs and Vaktsinovs: Vaccination in the Russian Empire; 10. Passage through India: Vaccinaton in South Asia; 11. 'This New Inoculation Is No Sham!' Vaccination in North America; 12. A New Pox for the New World. Vaccination in Latin America; 13. Oceanic Vaccine: The World Encircled; 14. The World Arm-to-Arm: Jenner and the Vaccination Revolution; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Concept of Valency to 1930
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Cambridge University Press Encyclopaedic Visions
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Cambridge University Press The Optical Papers Of Isaac Newton Volume 1 The Optical Lectures 16701672
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Cambridge University Press Darwinian Heresies
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Cambridge University Press Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science
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Cambridge University Press Cosmic Rays and Mesotrons
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Cambridge University Press SemiConductors and Metals
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Cambridge University Press The Morals of Measurement
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Cambridge University Press Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry 73 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 73
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Cambridge University Press Nature and the Godly Empire
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Cambridge University Press The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 17 1869
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Cambridge University Press GhostSeers Detectives and Spiritualists Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science 71 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 71
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Cambridge University Press A Voyage Through Turbulence
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Cambridge University Press Designs for Life
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Cambridge University Press Man and Nature in the Renaissance
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Cambridge University Press Much ADO about Nothing
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Cambridge University Press Teaching and Learning about Science and Society
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Cambridge University Press Nutrition and the War
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Cambridge University Press Science and the Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Scientific Controversies
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Cambridge University Press The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Volume 3 18441846
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Cambridge University Press The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell Volume 3 18741879
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Cambridge University Press From Knowledge to Power
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Cambridge University Press The Newtonian Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Foundations of Newtons Alchemy OrThe Hunting of the Greene Lyon Cambridge Paperback Library
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Cambridge University Press Scientific Controversies
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Cambridge University Press Science and the Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Science in Russia and Soviet Union A Short History Cambridge Studies in the History of Science
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Cambridge University Press Physical Science in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Man and Nature in the Renaissance Cambridge Studies in the History of Science
Book SynopsisMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context of the period. Conversely, those authors who have emphasized the latter frequently play down the importance of the technical scientific developments. In this book, Professor Debus amalgamates these approaches: The exact sciences of the period are discussed in detail, but reference is constantly made to religious and philosophical concepts that play little part in the science of our own time. Thus, the renewed interest in mystical texts and the subsequent impact of alchemy, astrology, and natural magic on the development of modern science and medicine are central to the account. Major themes that are followed throuTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Tradition and reform; 2. The chemical key; 3. The study of nature in a changing world; 4. The study of man; 5. A new world system; 6. New methods and a new science; 7. The new philosophy - a chemical debate; 8. Epilogue and indecision; Suggestions for further reading; Sources of quotations; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton A selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library Cambridge
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Cambridge University Press The Pursuit of Nature
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Cambridge University Press Charles Darwins The Life of Erasmus Darwin
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Cambridge University Press Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories The Modern Revolution in Geology and Scientific Change
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Cambridge University Press The Wisdom of Science Its Relevance to Culture and Religion
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Cambridge University Press The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China An Abridgement of Joseph Needhams Original Text 2
Book SynopsisIn the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with the non-mathematician in mind. The text is next concerned with the sciences of astronomy and meteorology, followed by the Earth sciences: geography, cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Volume 2 closes with a description of some aspects of Chinese physics, including their predilection for the wave theory as opposed to particles, metrology, statics, hydrostatics, heat, light and sound.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; 1. Mathematics; 2. The sciences of the heavens: (i) astronomy; 3. The sciences of the heavens: (ii) meteorology; 4. The sciences of the earth: (i) geography and map-making; 5. The sciences of the earth: (ii) geology and related sciences; 6. Physics; Table of Chinese dynastics; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press shortersciencecivilizationinchina
Book SynopsisThis third volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is devoted to Chinese contributions to nautical science and technology. In the original text, these subjects were dealt with in separate parts; in this abridgement they are coveniently presented in a single unified account. The book opens with an examination of what is perhaps the greatest single contribution of Chinese civilisation to nautical science, the magnetic compass. Then follow chapters on navigation, nautical history, and voyages and discoveries, together with design and methods of construction of Chinese shipping. A final chapter looks at nautical technology in war and peace. In the original text, the material covered here appeared in Volume IV Part I and Volume IV Part 3. In abridging the text, the opportunity has been taken to include the official Pin Yin transliterations alongside those of the original work.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; 1. Magnetism and electricity; 2. Nautical technology; 3. Voyages and discovieries; 4. Navigation; 5. Propulsion; 6. Steering; 7. Techniques of peace and war afloat; Table of Chinese dynasties; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China
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Cambridge University Press The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany
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Cambridge University Press History Humanity and Evolution
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Cambridge University Press Scientist of Empire
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