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Cambridge University Press The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren
Book SynopsisBefore becoming an architect, Christopher Wren was a renowned astronomer, and he was actively involved in many branches of science. This book contains the first detailed account of Wren's natural philosophy, and shows the close links that existed between the science and architecture of his day.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. The mathematical sciences; 3. 'That prodigious young scholar'; 4. Astronomy; 5. Longitude; 6. Cosmology; 7. Mechanics, microscopy, surveying; 8. Medicine and meteorology; 9. From astronomy to architecture; 10. The natural causes of beauty; Notes; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Justus von Liebig
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Cambridge University Press Nationalism and Internationalism in Science 1880 1939
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Cambridge University Press Science under Control The French Academy of Sciences 17951914
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Cambridge University Press The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage
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Cambridge University Press History Humanity and Evolution
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Cambridge University Press After the Breakthrough
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Cambridge University Press James E. Keeler
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Cambridge University Press Unrolling Time Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature
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Cambridge University Press Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Science and the Canadian Arctic
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Cambridge University Press An Institute for an Empire
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Cambridge University Press Science Vine and Wine in Modern France
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Cambridge University Press Species and Specificity
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Cambridge University Press From Knowledge to Power The Rise of the Science Empire in France 18601939
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Cambridge University Press Joan Baptista Van Helmont
Book SynopsisVan Helmont's theories on the nature of life, biological time, physiology and disease, the structure of matter, and the processes of chemical change are rendered obscure by Renaissance his tendency to mysticism. This intellectual biography, the culmination of many years of reflection on the topics discusses, illuminates Van Helmont's creative insights.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; 1. The life of Van Helmont in the light of his endeavour; 2. New aims: the hunt for perfect knowledge; 3. The nature of nature; 4. Biological ideas; 5. The ontological conception of disease; 6. Final assessment; Bibliography of Van Helmont; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Science Technology and National Socialism
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Cambridge University Press Scientist of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Symmetries in Physics
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Cambridge University Press Redirecting Science
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Cambridge University Press Enlightenment Science in the Romantic Era
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Cambridge University Press Records in Stone
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Cambridge University Press The Last Tasmanian Tiger The History and Extinction of the Thylacine
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Cambridge University Press Hospital Infection Miasmas to MRSA From Miasmas to MRSA
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Cambridge University Press The Study of Change
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Cambridge University Press Innovation in Maxwells Electromagnetic Theory
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Cambridge University Press James Licks Monument The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and the Building of the Lick Observatory
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Cambridge University Press Nobel Laureates and TwentiethCentury Physics
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Cambridge University Press Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics Part A Tycho Brahe to Newton
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Cambridge University Press A History of Modern Planetary Physics
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Cambridge University Press A History of Modern Planetary Physics
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Cambridge University Press Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine 15501680
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Cambridge University Press Cultures of Natural History
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Cambridge University Press Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason
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Cambridge University Press Justus von Liebig
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Cambridge University Press Francis Bacon
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Cambridge University Press Francis Bacon The New Organon Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhen the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally-based science. Bacon combines theoretical scientific epistemology with examples from applied science, examining phenomena as various as magnetism, gravity, and the ebb and flow of the tides, and anticipating later experimental work by Robert Boyle and others. His work challenges the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of his time, and has left its mark on all subsequent philosophical discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into modern English by Michael Silverthorne, and an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon's scientific and philosophical activities.Trade Review"The importance of this work is evident...the Cambridge edition does a respectable job at striving for both accuracy and readability. I would recommend this edition of Bacon's New Organon for use in survey and/or mid-level courses dealing with the development of seventeenth-century philosophy and science." Teaching PhilosophyTable of ContentsPlan of the work; The second part of the work: the New Organon or true directions for the interpretation of nature; Summary of the second part of the work, digested into aphorisms: Book I, Book II.
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Cambridge University Press Galileo Decisive Innovator Cambridge Science Biographies
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Cambridge University Press Power from Wind A History of Windmill Technology
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Cambridge University Press The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Early Quantum Electrodynamics
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Cambridge University Press A Century of Mycology
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Cambridge University Press Designs for Life
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Science Volume 4 EighteenthCentury Science
Book SynopsisThis volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also used as a work of reference.Trade Review'… [A] rich collection of material …' The Times Literary Supplement'… historians of medicine will undoubtedly find this a useful reference book for help in contextualizing their teaching and research. It achieves Porter's intention of providing a stable platform upon which scholarship on the nineteenth century can be built.' William H. Brock, Medical History'… contains excellent chapters and it will be very useful as a guide within the world of history of science …' AmbixTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; General editors' preface; 1. Introduction Roy Porter; Part I. Science in Society: 2. The legacy of the 'scientific revolution': Science and the enlightenment Peter Hans Reill; 3. Science, the universities, and other public spaces: teaching science Lawrence Brockliss; 4. Scientific institutions and the organization of science James McClellan III; 5. Science and government Robert Fox; 6. Exploring natural knowledge: science and the popular Mary Fissell and Roger Cooter; 7. The image of the man of science Steven Shapin; 8. The philosopher's beard: women and gender in science Londa Schiebinger; 9. The prosopography of science William Clark; Part II. Disciplines: 10. Classifying the sciences Richard Yeo; 11. The philosophy of science Rob Iliffe; 12. Ideas of nature: natural philosophy John Gascoigne; 13. Mathematics Craig Fraser; 14. Astronomy and cosmology Curtis Wilson; 15. Mechanics and experimental physics Rod Home; 16. Chemistry Jan Golinski; 17. The life sciences Shirley A. Roe; 18. The earth sciences Rhoda Rappaport; 19. The human sciences Richard Olson; 20. The medical sciences Thomas H. Broman; 21. Marginalized practices Patricia Fara; Part III. Special Themes: 22. Scientific instruments and their makers G. L'E. Turner; 23. Print and public science Adrian Johns; 24. Scientific illustration in the eighteenth century Brian Ford; 25. Science, art and the representation of the natural world Charlotte Klonk; 26. Science and voyages of discovery Rob Iliffe; Part IV. Non-Western Traditions: 27. Islam Emilie Savage-Smith; 28. India Deepak Kumar; 29. China Frank Dikötter; 30. Japan Shigeru Nakayama; 31. Latin America: from Baroque to Modern Colonial science Jorge Cañizares Esguerra; Part V. Ramifications and Impacts: 32. Science and religion John Hedley Brooke; 33. Science, culture and the imagination: enlightenment configurations George S. Rousseau; 34. Science, philosophy, and the mind Paul Wood; 35. Global pillage: science, commerce and Empire Larry Stewart; 36. Technological and industrial change: a comparative essay Ian Inkster; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Science Volume 3 Early Modern Science
Book SynopsisA comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500–1700. Articles by leading specialists describe how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and used.Trade Review'Undoubtedly this hefty volume is a necessary addition to the libraries of early modern scholars and to the bibliography of any course covering science in the early modern period.' British Journal for the History of ScienceTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; General editors' preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: the age of the new Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston; Part I. The New Nature: 2. Physics and foundations Daniel Garber; 3. Scientific explanation Lynn S. Joy; 4. The meanings of experience Peter Dear; 5. Proof and persuasion Richard W. Serjeantson; Part II. Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge: 6. The man of science Steven Shapin; 7. Women of natural knowledge Londa Schiebinger; 8. Markets, piazzas, and villages William Eamon; 9. Homes and households Alix Cooper; 10. Libraries and lecture halls Anthony Grafton; 11. Courts and academies Bruce T. Moran; 12. Anatomy theaters, botanical gardens, and natural history collections Paula Findlen; 13. Laboratories Pamela H. Smith; 14. Sites of military science and technology Kelly DeVries; 15. Coffeehouses and print shops Adrian Johns; 16. Networks of travel, correspondence, and exchange Steven J. Harris; Part III. Dividing the Study of Nature: 17. Natural philosophy Ann Blair; 18. Medicine Harold J. Cook; 19. Natural history Paula Findlen; 20. Cosmography Klaus A. Vogel (translated by Alisha Rankin); 21. From alchemy to 'chymistry' William R. Newman; 22. Magic Brian P. Copenhaver; 23. Astrology H. Darrel Rutkin; 24. Astronomy William Donahue; 25. Acoustics and optics Paolo Mancosu; 26. Mechanics Domenico Beroloni Meli; 27. The mechanical arts Jim Bennett; 28. Pure mathematics Kirsti Andersen and Henk J. M. Bos; Part IV. Cultural Meanings of Natural Knowledge: 29. Religion Rivka Feldhay; 30. Literature Mary Baine Campbell; 31. Art Carmen Niekrasz and Claudia Swan; 32. Gender Dorinda Outram; 33. European expansion and self-definition Klaus A. Vogel (translated by Alisha Rankin); Index.
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Cambridge University Press Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century Money Market Exchange and the Emergence of Scientific Thought 35 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press Camb Concise History of Astronomy
Book SynopsisAstronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory through to a survey of modern astronomy and astrophysics (sure to be of interest to future historians of twentieth-century astronomy). It does not attempt to cover everything, but deliberately concentrates on the important themes and topics. These include stellar astronomy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the time subordinate to the study of the solar system, but the source of many important concepts in modern astronomy, and the Copernican revolution, which led to the challenge of ancient authorities in many areas, not just astronomy. This is an essential text for students of the history of science and for students of astronomy who require a historical background to their studies.Trade Review' … this book is one of the most comprehensive histories of the subject I have seen … a highly readable and fascinating account'. Modern Astronomer'An astronomer once remarked that they would love to know more about the history of their subject but that they were too busy making it. Well, this book from Cambridge University Press could be the solution to that problem. Michael Hoskin, editor of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, and a well-known and accomplished historian has done an admirable job in editing this volume. The reviewer has no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone interested in astronomy or the history of science.' A. D. Andrews, Irish Astronomical Journal'This is an important addition to any science or history library.' Gnomon' … will appeal to readers well beyond the university to whom it has been designed. It is a book to peruse for intellectual enjoyment, and to treasure for reference.' M. T. Black, Endeavour'Even so, it maintains the clarity and elegance of exposition of its progenitor … For some years now, there has not been a single authoritative and readable history of astronomy currently in print. But the Cambridge Concise History, and its Illustrated History forebear, fill that gap with signal success.' Allan Chapman, The Observatory'… the book is well written, informative and interesting … it admirably lives up to its title. If you want a concise general history of astronomy, this is the book. It is readable, well written, and edited by a leader in the field.' Jon Reynolds, Journal of the British Astronomical AssociationTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Astronomy before history Clive Ruggles and Michael Hoskin; 2 Astronomy in antiquity Michael Hoskin; 3. Astronomy in China Christopher Cullen; 4. Islamic astronomy Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich; 5. The Astrolabe Michael Hoskin; 6. Medieval Latin astronomy Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich; 7. From geometry to physics: astronomy transformed Michael Hoskin; 8. The refracting telescope in the seventeenth century J. A. Bennett; 9. Newton and Newtonianism Michael Hoskin; 10. The astronomy of the universe of stars Michael Hoskin; 11. The message of starlight: the rise of astrophysics David Dewhirst and Michael Hoskin; 12. Astronomy's widening horizons Michael Hoskin and Owen Gingerich; Reference Guide; Chronology; Glossary; Further reading; Picture acknowledgments; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the Chemist
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