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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the belief that there is no necessary correspondence between external reality and objects of human understanding, which they held to include the objects of mathematical and linguistic discourse. The result is a scholarly reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley. This impressive volume will benefit scholars interested in the history of philosophy, mathematical philosophy and the history of mathematics.
£170.00
El jazz de la fsica
Este libro nos ofrece una fascinante clave para comprender algunos de los enigmas más persistentes de la física y la cosmología contemporáneas. En efecto, tomándose en serio la antigua analogía de que ?como sostuvieron, entre otros, Pitágoras o Kepler? el universo esconde proporciones armónicas, el profesor Stephon Alexander emplea las nociones de ritmo, armonía, proporción, tonalidad o improvisación para acompañarnos en un viaje que arranca en los inicios del universo y nos acerca a los confines de la expansión cósmica. Así, mientras que la moderna teoría de cuerdas nos habla de un mundo de subpartículas en continua vibración, los astrónomos sospechan que el macrocosmos se expande y se contrae en ciclos que recuerdan estructuras musicales.
£18.50
Icon Books Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide
Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world - and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, Dave Robinson - with the aid of Bill Mayblin's brilliant illustrations - outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and the last British empiricist, A.J. Ayer. They also explore criticisms of empiricism in the work of Kant, Wittgenstein, Karl Popper and others, providing a unique overview of this compelling area of philosophy.
£7.19
Big Finish Productions Ltd Doctor Who Main Range 221 - The Star Men
Astronomical navigation is a tricky business. To help Adric with his studies, the Doctor sets course for Gallius Ultima -a planet on the edge of the Milky Way, housing one of the most impressive observatories ever constructed. But the TARDIS arrives to find Gallius U in a state of emergency, tracking the return of the Explorer-class ship Johannes Kepler from its mission into the heart of the mysterious Large Magellanic Cloud. A mission that met with disaster...To find out what overtook the crew of the Johannes Kepler, the Doctor and his companions must journey into the heart of the Cloud...and beyond, into the darkness of another reality altogether. The universe of the Star Men. The Star Men marks the first of a trilogy of stories reuniting the 1982 TARDIS crew for Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor - Adric (Matthew Waterhouse), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton). Director Barnaby Edwards is not only an overworked director for Big Finish productions, but on top of many audiobook voice-over duties, he's also the main Dalek operator in TV's Doctor Who.Sue Holderness takes an overdue dramatic role in this story, but is best known for playing Boycie's wife Marlene in much-loved sitcoms Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass. Guest star Sophie Wu will be familiar to any fans of cult film hits Kiss-Ass and Kick Ass 2, or the much missed spooky BBC series The Fades. CAST: Peter Davison (The Doctor), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sue Holderness (Kala Tace), Sophie Wu (Autumn Tace), Peter Guinness (Rovus), Damian Lynch (Fell/ Lom), Kris Dyer (Nomar/ Vedrin / Surgical Robot/ Pilot), Barnaby Edwards (Computer).
£14.99
Vintage Publishing You Are Next
'Arne Dahl is possibly the most thoughtful and playful contemporary Nordic crime writer. He also happens to be one of the most thrilling' IAN RANKIN____________________________Detective Inspector Sam Berger's life has been turned upside down. He is suspected of a murder and his partner, Secret Service agent, Molly Blom, is in a coma. Meanwhile, a terrorist attempt is threatening Stockholm and a wanted murderer is on the loose. Berger escapes to the Stockholm Archipelago while he waits for orders from the Swedish Security Service's chief executive. But is he the solution or is he part of the problem?_______________________________‘Arne Dahl combines global intrigue with intelligence, suspense, and genuine literary quality’ LARS KEPLER'Arne Dahl is one of the true greats of Scandinavian crime fiction' MARK BILLINGHAM
£9.99
The University of Chicago Press The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry
In this historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, the author examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in 17th-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology.
£52.00
Springer Spektrum Von Eratosthenes bis Einstein
Einleitung.- Teil I Das Weltbild in der Antike.- Antike Philosophie und die Rolle der Mathematik.- Alexandria: Hochburg der Wissenschaften.- Berechnungen an Himmelskörpern.- Derr Mechanismus von Antikythera.- Teil II Die Kopernikanische Wende.- Astronomie im Mittelalter und in der Renaissance.- Nikolaus Kopernikus.- Tycho Brahe.- Galileo Galilei.- Johannes Kepler.- Keplers "Neue Astronomie".- Das Fernrohr - eine geniale Erfindung.- Galilei und die katholische Kirche: der Kampf um das kopernikanische System.- Galileis und Keplers Spätwerke.- Teil III Isaac Newton und das neuzeitliche Weltbild bis 1900.- Newtons kreative Jahre.- Newton als Professor in Cambridge.- Newtons Weg zu seinem Hauptwerk.- Newton und Leibniz.- Erfolge der Newtonschen Mechanik.- Das Licht der Sterne als Informationsquelle.- Teil IV Neue Entwicklungen im 20. Jahrhundert.- Max Planck.- Albert Einstein.- Einsteins Lichtquantenhypothese.- Grundzüge der speziellen Relativitätstheorie.- Die Gleichung E = m x c
£39.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science
Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud “Why is Darwin less the Copernicus than the Kepler of biology? What are good criteria for scientific revolutions? Shift of perspective? Replacement of paradigms? Reweaving conceptual networks? Explanatory gain? Restructuring the constraint space? Threatening worldviews? Whoever wants to learn more about these and many other important issues of history and philosophy of science will have to read on!”Klaus Hentschel, University of Stuttgart “Friedel Weinert has done a rare and excellent thing in this book: he has shown how the philosophy of science is intimately connected with the development of physical, biological, and social sciences and that argument concerning the foundations of these sciences cannot be advanced without reference to philosophy. It is a clearly written and engaging book that will be informative for teachers, students, and the lay public alike.”Robert Nola, University of Auckland
£86.95
Springer A History of Color: The Evolution of Theories of Light and Color
This is the first comprehensive text on the history of color theories since Halbertsma's book of 1947. Color is discussed in close connection with the evolution of ideas of light and vision. The book has chapters on the ancient Greek ideas of vision and color; on the contributions of Arabic science; on the Scientific Revolution from Kepler to Newton; on the early history of the three-color hypothesis; on the trichromatic theory and defective color vision; and on Goethe's, Schopenhauer's and Hering's theories. New understanding of the structure and functions of the retina and the brain finally results in the modern science of color vision. A History of Color has been written for ophthalmologists, optometrists and others who are interested in visual science and its history. The book requires no specialized knowledge.
£99.99
Springer Die Geheimnisse der Kristalle
Haben Kristalle magische Kräfte.- Homer, Empedokles und Aristoteles: Kristalle zwischen Literatur und Philosophie.- Pythagoras und Platon: Kristalle als Abbilder der Grundstrukturen unserer Welt?- Theophrastos und Plinius: Die ersten Bücher über Kristalle.- Hildegard und Albertus: Heilkräfte und der Stein der Weisen.- Agricola und die Schätze der Erde.- De Boodt und Kepler: Vom Alltagswissen zur Wissenschaft.- Kircher und Steno: Von der Vielfalt zum Gesetz.- Hooke, das Mikroskop und der Blick auf die Details.- Casciarolo, Bartholin, Huygens und das Licht.- Kappeler und die Geburtsurkunde der Kristallographie.- De L'Isle und eine erste Systematik.- Werner, Haüy und Weiss auf der Suche nach mathematischen Beziehungen.- Goethe, die romantische und die unromantische Wissenschaft.- Hessel, Frankenheim und Bravais: Symmetrie und Realität.- Becquerel, Kirchhoff und Bunsen: Das Licht und das Universum.- Faraday, Kristalle, Elektrizität und Magnetismus.- Ohm und Braun: Alles fließt sogar in
£30.46
Coach House Books Probably Inevitable
Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) These are high-energy poems, riddled with wit and legerdemain and jolted by the philosophy and science of time. "Time's not the market, it's the bustle; / not the price but worth," he writes, sailing through the rhythms and algorithms of a world made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr. Matthew Tierney's narrators grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced, their minds tuned to one (probably) inevitable truth: the more I understand, the more I understand I'm alone. If it were necessary to tell someone where I am, I'd say the spheres of Kepler resonate like icicles. I'd say I have loved. Matthew Tierney is the author of the Trillium Award--nominated The Hayflick Limit and Full Speed through the Morning Dark. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
£12.52
Princeton University Press Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500–1700 Third Edition
This thoroughly revised third edition of an award-winning book offers a keen insight into how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Covering central scientific figures, including Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Bacon, this new edition features:• Greater treatment of alchemy and associated craft activities to reflect trends in current scholarship• Extended material on Francis Bacon• A new historiographical essayReflecting on the origins of scientific practice in early modern Europe, Peter Dear traces the revolution in thought that changed the natural world from something to be contemplated into something to be used.Concise and readable, this book is ideal for students who are studying the Scientific Revolution and its impact on the early modern world. The first edition was the winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society.
£31.44
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science
Copernicus, Darwin, & Freud “Why is Darwin less the Copernicus than the Kepler of biology? What are good criteria for scientific revolutions? Shift of perspective? Replacement of paradigms? Reweaving conceptual networks? Explanatory gain? Restructuring the constraint space? Threatening worldviews? Whoever wants to learn more about these and many other important issues of history and philosophy of science will have to read on!”Klaus Hentschel, University of Stuttgart “Friedel Weinert has done a rare and excellent thing in this book: he has shown how the philosophy of science is intimately connected with the development of physical, biological, and social sciences and that argument concerning the foundations of these sciences cannot be advanced without reference to philosophy. It is a clearly written and engaging book that will be informative for teachers, students, and the lay public alike.”Robert Nola, University of Auckland
£29.95
Guadalmazán El arte de las matemáticas los principios matemáticos a través de la pintura
En este volumen analizaremos una decena de obras que encierran en sus formas un notable interés desde la óptica matemática. Así, siguiendo sus explicaciones, conseguirá que miremos el arte, no solamente desde el punto de vista estético, sino teniendo la mente más abierta para percibir las fórmulas que se esconden entre sus trazos. Esta antología nos llevará, en un interesante viaje, a través de las biografías de algunos grandes matemáticos como Luca Pacioli, Gerónimo Cardano, Blaise Pascal y René Descartes; nos presentará algunos libros clásicos en la historia de las Matemáticas como Aritmética (1527) de Petrus Apianus, Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614) de John Napier, Harmonices Mundi (1619) y Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627) de Johannes Kepler; nos mostrará los sistemas cosmológicos de Ptolomeo, Copérnico y Thyco Brahe; nos pondrá en contacto con uno de los poliedros arquimedianos, el rombicuboctaedro, y con el dodecaedro regular; nos hablará de l
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De Gruyter Monastere de Maulbronn
Ce guide de visite raconte l'histoire de l'abbaye cistercienne de Maulbronn, de ses occupants et de ses batiments. L'ancienne abbaye cistercienne de Maulbronn, vieille de 860 ans, est consideree comme l'ensemble monastique medieval le plus complet et le mieux preserve au nord des Alpes. Depuis son inscription sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO en 1993, c'est l'un des sites culturels les plus visites du Bade-Wurtemberg. Le monastere illustre de maniere saisissante la vie spirituelle et economique des Cisterciens et sa remarquable architecture ne manque pas d'impressionner le visiteur. Apres la dissolution de l'abbaye, Maulbronn devint celebre grace a son ecole protestante et a son seminaire de theologie protestante. L'ecole accueillit comme eleves d'eminents savants et poetes tels que Johannes Kepler, Friedrich Hoelderlin et Hermann Hesse. Le present guide de visite raconte l'histoire de l'abbaye cistercienne, de ses occupants et de ses batiments.
£6.76
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Pull Of History, The: Human Understanding Of Magnetism And Gravity Through The Ages
This book seeks to understand what bring to pass the birth of modern physics by focusing upon the formation of the concept of force. This would be the first book to note the important role magnetism has played in this process. Indeed, the force between celestial bodies, before the introduction of the Isaac Newtonian gravitational force, is first introduced by Johannes Kepler by analogy with the magnetic force. Moreover, this book, by concentrating our attention on the magnetism, fully describes the developments and the recognition of the force concept during the Middle Ages. The detailed description of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is a strong point of this book. By discussing and emphasizing on the role accomplished by the magnetic force, this book makes clear the connection between the natural magic and the modern experimental physics. This book will open up a new aspect of the birth of modern physics.
£174.00
University of Notre Dame Press Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book
This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the first time or in a new translation. Authors included are Aristotle, Lucretius, Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, Galileo, Kepler, Pascal, Fontenelle, Huygens, Newton, Pope, Voltaire, Kant, Paine, Chalmers, Darwin, Wallace, Dostoevski, Lowell, and Antoniadi, among others. Michael J. Crowe has compiled an extensive bibliography not available in other sources. These materials reveal that the extraterrestrial life debate, rather than being a relatively modern phenomenon, has extended throughout nearly all Western history and has involved many of its leading intellectuals. The readings also demonstrate that belief in extraterrestrial life has had major effects on science and society, and that metaphysical and religious views have permeated the debate throughout much of its history.
£32.40
Running Press,U.S. On The Shoulders Of Giants
World-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of seven classic works on physics and astronomy. His choice of landmark writings by some of the world's great thinkers traces the brilliant evolution of modern science and shows how each figure built upon the genius of his predecessors. On the Shoulders of Giants includes, in their entirety, On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus Principia by Sir Isaac Newton The Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein Dialogues Concerning Two Sciences by Galileo Galilei with Alfonso De Salvio plus Mystery of the Cosmos, Harmony of the World, and Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler. It also includes five critical essays and a biography of each featured physicist, written by Hawking himself.
£19.80
Cambridge University Press Planetary Sciences
An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this award-winning textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. This updated second edition has been revised and improved while maintaining its existing structure and organization. Many data tables and plots have been updated to account for the latest measurements. A new Appendix focuses on recent discoveries since the second edition was first published. These include results from Cassini, Kepler, MESSENGER, MRO, LRO, Dawn at Vesta, Curiosity, and others, as well as many ground-based observatories. With over 300 exercises to help students apply the concepts covered, this textbook is ideal for graduate courses in astronomy, planetary science and earth science, and well suited as a reference for researchers. Color versions of many figures, movie clips supplementing the text, and other resources are available at www.cambridge.org/depater.
£70.99
Profile Books Ltd A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science
Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious work of history, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines a treasure trove of esoteric classical sources to expose the deep imaginative framework by which - for millennia - we made sense of our fates. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world's most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a grand data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history's most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler. A Scheme of Heaven explores the wonderful subtleties of astrological ideas. Telling the stories of their inventors and most influential exponents, Boxer puts them through their paces using modern data sets - finding that the methods of today's scientists are often uncomfortably close to those of astrology's ancient sages.
£12.99
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US The Story Of Astronomy
Trace the development of astronomy from early Greek stargazers to the ambitious pioneers: Brahe, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton - who braved persecution and ridicule to fight for a science that relied not on ancient authorities and scriptures, but on logic, math, and careful observation. As Motz and Weaver show, the fruits of this noble pursuit - the elegant, simple natural laws - opened our eyes to the elusive rotations of the heavenly bodies, and gave rise to classical physics, and, finally, the vigorous, thriving science of astronomy today. These engaging authors go on to depict the brilliant revolution in astronomy that shattered classical physics and transformed our concepts of time, space, and matter. Beginning with Einstein's theory of relativity, Motz and Weaver celebrate and savour the twentieth century's greatest advances in physics, chemistry, and mathematics, each of which have dramatically reshaped modern astronomy.
£23.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Theory Of Orbital Motion
Orbital motion is a vital subject which has engaged the greatest minds in mathematics and physics from Kepler to Einstein. It has gained in importance in the space age and touches every scientist in any field of space science. Still, there is almost a total dearth of books in this important field at the elementary and intermediate levels — at best a chapter in an undergraduate or graduate mechanics course.This book addresses that need, beginning with Kepler's laws of planetary motion followed by Newton's law of gravitation. Average and extremum values of dynamical variables are treated and the central force problem is formally discussed. The planetary problem in Cartesian and complex coordinates is tackled and examples of Keplerian motion in the solar system are also considered. The final part of the book is devoted to the motion of artificial Earth satellites and the modifications of their orbits by perturbing forces of various kinds.
£86.00
I K International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd Fundamentals of Mechanics
Mechanics is an important topic in the study of Physics, and is being taught in most of the universities in India as well as abroad to B.Sc., B.Tech and B.Sc. Hons students. This area of science deals with the behaviour of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment. Mechanics has origin in the ancient period. Scientists such as Galileo, Kepler and Newton laid the foundation of classical mechanics, which deals with the particles that are either at rest or are moving with velocities significantly less than the speed of light. Fundamentals of Mechanics discusses the Vectors, Laws of Motion, Conservation Laws, Inverse-Square-Law Forces, Harmonic Oscillator, Theory of Relativity, Non-inertial Reference Frames. Each topic is explained in a simple language and with the help of line drawings and exercises. Mathematical expressions are given as per need and are derived in a systematic and simple manner.
£44.95
The University of Chicago Press The Calculus: A Genetic Approach
When first published in 1963, more than two decades after Otto Toeplitz's death, this book presented a radically different approach to the teaching of calculus. In sharp contrast to the methods of his time, Toeplitz did not teach calculus as a static system of techniques and facts to be memorized. Instead, he drew on his knowledge of the history of mathematics and presented calculus as an organic evolution of ideas beginning with the discoveries of Greek scholars, such as Archimedes, Pythagoras, and Euclid, and developing through the centuries in the work of Kepler, Galileo, Fermat, Newton, and Leibniz. Through this unique approach, Toeplitz summarized and elucidated the major mathematical advances that contributed to modern calculus. Reissued for the first time since 1981 and updated with a new foreword, this classic text is experiencing a resurgence of interest among students and teachers of calculus today.
£32.41
Icon Books Astrobiology: The Search for Alien Life: The Illustrated Edition
A NEW, FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ANDREW MAY'S ILLUMINATING GUIDE TO LIFE NOT ON EARTHThe possibility that alien life exists in the universe is among the most profound of human conjectures, which today is being investigated not just by science-fiction writers but by scientists.Astrobiology presents an expert guide to this compelling field of science. It shows how the tell- tale signatures of life on Earth might hold the key to detecting life beyond our planet; explores the many planets beyond our Solar System discovered by NASA's Kepler and TESS missions; and explains alien- hunting touchstones such as Fermi's Paradox, the Drake Equation, and the 'Wow' signal.As NASA's rovers burrow into Mars and its probes peer ever further into the cosmos, this illustrated edition combines deep space images with infographics to cast a scientific eye over the most significant of scientific treasure hunts.
£20.00
Empresa científica
Cómo se podrían aplicar las leyes de newton a la estrategia competitiva de las empresas? Qué diría Pitágoras sobre la productividad y la satisfacción del cliente si levantase la cabeza? Qué cree que le aconsejaría Mendeléyev para innovar con éxito? Pueden ayudar las leyes de la genética de Mendel al liderazgo? Se puede gestionar el cambio como un circuito eléctrico?Empresa científica indaga en la gestión profesional de las empresas, relacionando de una forma cabalmente original ecuaciones matemáticas y leyes de la física, la química y la biología, con temas tan sustanciales como la innovación, el liderazgo de personas y situaciones, la negociación, la comunicación integrada, la publicidad eficaz, la gestión de costes, el competir de forma rentable, la gestión del cambio, la creación de valor y la inercia empresarial.Leyendo este libro recordará a muchos insignes científicos como Newton, Pitágoras, Gauss, Ohm, Kepler, Mendel, etc., y se familiarizará con sus pensamiento
£20.67
Universo prohibido
En 1543, estando en su lecho de muerte, el astrónomo Nicolás Copérnico publicó una obra determinante que planteaba un modelo del cosmos en el que el Sol era el centro. Para la mayoría de los historiadores, significó el principio de la Revolución Científica, pero este libro perfila una historia alternativa que comienza con el redescubrimiento de unos documentos egipcios perdidos durante largo tiempo.Estos asombrosos secretos eran el fundamento de la tradición hermética, cuya magia influyó a las mentes más brillantes de la época. A pesar de que hoy apenas se tiene en cuenta, la recuperación del hermetismo no solo impulsó el Renacimiento, sino que fue el punto de partida para que la revolución que supuso el incipiente pensamiento científico se convirtiera en el pilar de la Ilustración. Como demuestran los autores en esta historia magistralmente argumentada, todos los pioneros de la ciencia ?Copérnico, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Leibniz e incluso Isaac Newton? deben los descub
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Lecciones de los Maestros
El intenso encuentro personal entre maestro y discípulo es lo que interesa a George Steiner en este libro, una reflexión acerca de la infinita complejidad y la sutil interacción de poder, confianza y pasión en los géneros más profundos de pedagogía. Basado en las Conferencias Norton sobre el arte y las tradiciones de la enseñanza, Lecciones de los Maestros evoca a muchos personajes ejemplares: Sócrates y Platón, Jesús y sus discípulos, Virgilio y Dante, Brahe y Kepler, Husserl y Heidegger, entre otros. Fundamentales en la evolución de la cultura occidental son Sócrates y Jesús, maestros carismáticos que no dejaron enseñanzas escritas ni fundaron escuelas. En los esfuerzos de sus discípulos, en los relatos de pasión inspirados por su muerte, Steiner ve los comienzos de un vocabulario interior, los reconocimientos cifrados de buena parte de nuestro lenguaje moral, filosófico y teológico. Después analiza una serie de tradiciones y disciplinas, referidas todas ellas a tres temas subyacente
£19.18
Utópicos pioneros y lunáticos
Una cuidada, poética e ilustrada antología de relatos en donde la utopía y la pasión por la ciencia se confunden a menudo con la sátira política, social y de costumbres.Nuestra querida Luna, admirada desde la Tierra por los humanos, ha sido venerada como una diosa pero también anhelada como vía de escape hacia un mundo alternativo. Ya desde la Antigüedad proliferaron los relatos de viajes fantásticos, oníricos y utópicos; aventuras legendarias que quisieron buscar un más allá ideal, filosófico o paródico.Este libro recoge una selección de viajes a la Luna anteriores a la visionaria obra de Julio Verne, que consagró la ciencia ficción para la modernidad, comenzando con la pionera aventura que narra Luciano de Samósata. Desde los clásicos griegos, el tema del viaje lunar ?entre divertimento, ciencia y filosofía? tiene una larga historia que pasa por el medievo y el Renacimiento y desemboca en la moderna astronomía a partir de Kepler. Posteriormente, Godwin, Wilkins y otros teóricos
£22.01
Icon Books Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
Extraterrestrial life is a common theme inscience fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiologyis the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question.The possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmosis one of the most profound subjects that human beings can ponder. AstrophysicistAndrew May gives an expert overview of our current state of knowledge, lookingat how life started on Earth, the tell-tale 'signatures' it produces, and howsuch signatures might be detected elsewhere in the Solar System or on the many 'exoplanets'now being discovered by the Kepler and TESS missions.Along the way the book addresses key questions such as the riddle of Fermi'sparadox ('Where is everybody?') and the crucial role of DNA and water - they'reessential to 'life as we know it', but is the same true of alien life? And the reallybig question: when we eventually find extraterrestrials, will they be friendlyor hostile?
£10.99
Astrobiología
* Una guía sobre una apasionante materia científica, que muestra que los signos que revelan que hay vida en la Tierra pueden ser la clave para detectarla también fuera de nuestro planeta.* Un análisis de los numerosos planetas que han descubierto las misiones Kepler y TESS de la NASA fuera del Sistema Solar.* Incluye detalles cruciales sobre la búsqueda de vida extraterrestre, como la paradoja de Fermi, la ecuación de Drake y la señal "Wow!".La posibilidad de que exista vida extraterrestre es una de las conjeturas más trascendentales de la humanidad. Hoy en día se indaga en este campo no solo desde la literatura de ciencia ficción, sino también desde la investigación en el ámbito de la ciencia.Puesto que en Marte ya hay todoterrenos de la NASA y otras sondas escudriñan lugares más lejanos del cosmos, esta edición ilustrada combina infografías con imágenes del espacio profundo para ofrecer una visión bien informada sobre las búsquedas científicas más significativas.
£23.94
Pitch Publishing Ltd Crickets Hard Men
Cricket''s Hard Men takes an innovative look at character, psychology and mental health in cricket to produce a fascinating study of the sport''s toughest players.So, what actually constitutes a hard man of cricket? The truth is there is no simple definition. Whether it''s resilience to defy injury from players like Kepler Wessels, Mike Atherton and Allan Border; sheer physicality from cricketer turned cage fighter Adam Hollioake; the bloody-mindedness to snub tradition by Douglas Jardine and John Reid; a chest-thumping need from Arjuna Ranatunga to show pride for a flag that had a reputation of being soft in the cricket world; or the blind courage of Brian Close, each player has his own unique story, told here through in-depth research and exclusive interviews.The author consulted prominent ex-cricketers and broadcasters before studying this select band, from Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the West Indies an
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Art of Catching Feelings
Daphne Brink doesn''t follow baseball, but watching ''America''s Snoozefest'' certainly beats sitting at home in the days after she signs her divorce papers. After one too many ballpark beers, she heckles Carolina Battery player Chris Kepler, who quickly proves there mightactuallybe a little crying in baseball. Horrified, Daphne reaches out to Chris on social media to apologize... but forgets to identify herself as his heckler in her message. Chris doesn''t usually respond to random fans on social media, but he''s grieving and fragile after an emotionally turbulent few months. When a DM from ''Duckie'' catches his eye, he impulsively messages back. Duckie is sweet, funny, and seems to understand him in a way no one else does. Daphne isn''t sure how much longer she can keep lying to Chris, especially as she starts working with the team in real life andtheir feelings for each other deepen. When he finds out the truth, will it be three strikes, she''s out?
£12.99
Profile Books Ltd A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science
'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' Joshua Foer author of Moonwalking with Einstein Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious work of history, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines a treasure trove of esoteric classical sources to expose the deep imaginative framework by which - for millennia - we made sense of our fates. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world's most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a grand data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history's most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler. A Scheme of Heaven explores the wonderful subtleties of astrological ideas. Telling the stories of their inventors and most influential exponents, Boxer puts them through their paces using modern data sets - finding that the methods of today's scientists are often uncomfortably close to those of astrology's ancient sages.
£22.50
Little, Brown Book Group Leonardo: The First Scientist
This book is both a revelatory biography and an accessible study of Leonardo's life and multi-faceted work as a scientist and engineer. It covers all aspects of the man's life but is also a re-interpretation of the voluminous evidence to paint an original picture of Leonardo da Vinci not only as the archetypal polymath, but as the first true scientist. Topics include:* A detailed investigation of how Leonardo's manuscripts and notebooks were lost to the world and kept secret during his own lifetime and how this altered the progress of science.* A thorough analysis of his work as a scientist and how he predated many of the great figures of the 16th and 17th centuries, including Galileo, Kepler, William Harvey, Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton.* Leonardo's legacy -- what did Leonardo leave in his notebooks and how may they be viewed in the light of modern scientific understanding? What did he achieve in science?
£12.99
Alianza Editorial El sistema del mundo El libro de bolsillo Ciencias Spanish Edition
La concepción del universo propuesta por Copérnico, perfeccionada por Kepler y formulada de manera completa y suficiente por Isaac Newton (1642-1727) tuvo que vencer las resistencias que ofrecían el antiguo sistema ptolemaico (armazón de la astronomía medieval y renacentista apoyado por la lectura teológica de la Biblia), la creencia alimentada por los predicadores de que los cometas eran mensajeros de la cólera divina y la teoría cartesiana de los vórtices como explicación mecánica del movimiento de los astros. " El sistema del mundo " , publicado póstumamente en 1728, fue un instrumento decisivo para difundir e imponer las nuevas teorías. El tratado, primera versión del libro tercero de los " Principia Mathematica " , expone en un lenguaje popular y asequible la ley de la gravitación universal, los movimientos de la Luna y su relación con la Tierra y el Sol, y el fenómeno de los cometas. Esta edición incluye también el célebre " Elogio de Sir Isaac Newton " escrito por Fontenelle en
£12.76
No Starch Press,US The Manga Guide To The Universe
Join Kanna, Kanta, Yamane, and Gloria in The Manga Guide to the Universe as they explore our solar system, the Milky Way, and faraway galaxies in search of the universe s greatest mysteries: dark matter, cosmic expansion, and the Big Bang itself. As you rocket across the night sky, you ll become acquainted with modern astronomy and astrophysics, as well as the classical discoveries and theories on which they re built. You ll even learn why some scientists believe finding extraterrestrial life is inevitable! You ll also learn about: Discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Hubble, and other seminal astronomers Theories of the universe s origins, evolution, and geometry The ways you can measure and observe heavenly bodies with different telescopes, and how astronomers calculate distances in space Stellar classifications and how the temperature, size, and magnitude of a star are related Cosmic background radiation, what the WMAP satellite discovered, and scientists predicti
£21.59
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Theory Of Orbital Motion
Orbital motion is a vital subject which has engaged the greatest minds in mathematics and physics from Kepler to Einstein. It has gained in importance in the space age and touches every scientist in any field of space science. Still, there is almost a total dearth of books in this important field at the elementary and intermediate levels — at best a chapter in an undergraduate or graduate mechanics course.This book addresses that need, beginning with Kepler's laws of planetary motion followed by Newton's law of gravitation. Average and extremum values of dynamical variables are treated and the central force problem is formally discussed. The planetary problem in Cartesian and complex coordinates is tackled and examples of Keplerian motion in the solar system are also considered. The final part of the book is devoted to the motion of artificial Earth satellites and the modifications of their orbits by perturbing forces of various kinds.
£37.00
Manilla The Cleaner: A gripping thriller with a dark secret at its heart
An unforgettable heroine. An unforgivable past. For fans of Child 44, The Lives of Others and Stasi Child, The Cleaner is a gripping thriller that will chill and intrigue as the sins of the past catch up with the secrets of the present. Pools of blood, scenes of carnage, signs of agonising death - who deals with the aftermath of violence once the bodies have been taken away? Judith Kepler has seen it all. She is a crime scene specialist. She turns crime scenes back into habitable spaces. She is a cleaner. It is at the home of a woman who has been brutally murdered that she is suddenly confronted with her own past. The murder victim knew Judith's secret: as a child Judith was sent to an orphanage under mysterious circumstances - parentage unknown. And the East German secret police were always there, in the background. . . . When Judith begins to ask questions, she becomes the target of some powerful enemies. And nothing will ever be the same again.
£7.19
Ara Mini Lhipnotitzador
Hi ha contractes que no pots trencar ni quan ets mort... Un nou i addictiu cas de Joona Linna, el protagonista de L?hipnotitzador.El cos de Carl Palmcrona, director general de l?ISP (Inspecció de Productes Estratègics), apareix penjat al seu luxós apartament del barri d?Östermalm, a Estocolm. A l?habitació no hi ha mobles: com ha pogut enfilar-se sense ajut? El mateix dia, en una embarcació a la deriva als afores de la ciutat, apareix el cadàver d?una dona. Té els pulmons plens d?aigua salabrosa, però no en té restes ni a la roba ni a cap altra part del cos. S?ha ofegat en una barca que encara sura? Només hi ha una persona capaç de resoldre aquests misteris: l?inspector Joona Linna.?Va veure la soga??Naturalment.?Però no tenia por que la pogués utilitzar? ?va preguntar en Joona.?No és cap malson morir.Alexander Ahndoril (Estocolm, 1967) i Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (Helsingborg, 1966) van amagar-se sota el pseudònim Lars Kepler quan van escriure L?hipnotitzador, per
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Springer International Publishing AG New Frontiers of Celestial Mechanics: Theory and Applications: I-CELMECH Training School, Milan, Italy, February 3–7, 2020
This volume contains the detailed text of the major lectures delivered during the I-CELMECH Training School 2020 held in Milan (Italy). The school aimed to present a contemporary review of recent results in the field of celestial mechanics, with special emphasis on theoretical aspects. The stability of the Solar System, the rotations of celestial bodies and orbit determination, as well as the novel scientific needs raised by the discovery of exoplanetary systems, the management of the space debris problem and the modern space mission design are some of the fundamental problems in the modern developments of celestial mechanics. This book covers different topics, such as Hamiltonian normal forms, the three-body problem, the Euler (or two-centre) problem, conservative and dissipative standard maps and spin-orbit problems, rotational dynamics of extended bodies, Arnold diffusion, orbit determination, space debris, Fast Lyapunov Indicators (FLI), transit orbits and answer to a crucial question, how did Kepler discover his celebrated laws? Thus, the book is a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in the field of celestial mechanics and aerospace engineering.
£129.99
Bodleian Library Thinking 3D: Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present
During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced the way in which disciplines developed: architecture could be communicated much more clearly, mathematical concepts and astronomical observations could be quickly relayed, observations of the natural world moved towards a more realistic method of depiction. Through essays on some of the world’s greatest artists and thinkers (Leonardo da Vinci, Euclid, Andreas Vesalius, William Hunter, Johannes Kepler, Andrea Palladio, Galileo Galilei, among many others), this book tells the story of the development of the techniques used to communicate three-dimensional forms on the two-dimensional page and contemporary media. It features Leonardo da Vinci’s groundbreaking drawings in his notebooks and other manuscripts, extraordinary anatomical illustrations, early paper engineering including volvelles and tabs, beautiful architectural plans and even views of the moon. With in-depth analysis of over forty manuscripts and books, 'Thinking 3D' also reveals the impact that developing techniques had on artists and draughtsmen throughout time and across space.
£35.00
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Leistungsphysiologie: Lehrbuch für Sport- und Physiotherapeuten und Trainer
Grundlagenwissen in der Leistungsphysiologie Herzstück des etablierten Lehrbuches sind Leistungsdiagnostik und medizinische Trainingslehre, physiologische Änderungen unter einmaliger körperlicher Belastung bzw. regelmäßigem Training stehen im Mittelpunkt. Neben den neuesten wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der sportmedizinischen Forschung enthält es „Trainingskonzepte“ für verschiedene Indikationen. Diese bieten dem Leser einen zusätzlichen praktischen Nutzen, denn sie helfen, das erlernte Wissen erfolgreich in die Praxis umzusetzen.Neu sind weitere Trainingsrezepte, „klassische Beispiele“ aus der Praxis jedes Physiotherapeuten: Training nach Schwangerschaft/Geburt, bei Rückenschmerzen, als Sturzprophylaxe und nach hüftendoprothetischer Versorgung. Alle neuen Rezepte werden durch Multiple-Choice-Fragen ergänzt. Die Neuauflage wurde zudem um ein Ernährungsbeispiel erweitert und vollständig aktualisiert.Der Inhalt· Physiologische und anatomische Grundlagen· Leistungsdiagnostik· Regeln der medizinischen Trainingslehre· Trainingsmethoden, -verordnung und -rezepte· Frauen betreiben Sport· Ermüdung· Übertraining· Regeneration· Training nach Verkühlung bzw. Verletzung· Muskelkrämpfe· Dehnen· Thermoregulation· Höhenexposition· ErnährungDie AutorDr. Josef Tomasits, FA für med. chem. Laboratoriumsmedizin, leitender Oberarzt für Gerinnung und Hämatologie, Zentrallabor, Kepler Universitätsklinikum LinzUniv. Prof. Dr. Paul Haber, FA für Innere Medizin und internistische Sportmedizin; Olympiateamarzt 1992 und 1996
£54.99
Pennsylvania State University Press Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions.Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
£32.95
HarperCollins Publishers Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
‘Riveting’ Margaret Atwood ‘I loved this book intensely’ Lauren Groff Guardian The plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch. Known for her herbal remedies and successful children – among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion – Katharina’s life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story. Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear – a narrative with true resonance for today. ‘Darkly funny … Her prose, which recalls Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, is light, pared back and subtly archaic’ Financial Times ‘Superbly voiced … funny’ Telegraph ‘A magical brew of absurdity and brutality’ Washington Post ‘Galchen expertly weaves together a story told from multiple perspectives, showing how easy it is for a mob mentality to take hold in a climate of fear and ignorance when a woman simply exists outside of the norm’ New York Times
£8.99
Princeton University Press When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve themWhat is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? When Least Is Best combines the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples to answer these intriguing questions and more. Paul Nahin shows how life often works at the extremes—with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible—and he considers how mathematicians over the centuries, including Descartes, Fermat, and Kepler, have grappled with these problems of minima and maxima. Throughout, Nahin examines entertaining conundrums, such as how to build the shortest bridge possible between two towns, how to vary speed during a race, and how to make the perfect basketball shot. Moving from medieval writings and modern calculus to the field of optimization, the engaging and witty explorations of When Least Is Best will delight math enthusiasts everywhere.
£15.99
Pennsylvania State University Press Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions.Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
£67.46
Skyhorse Publishing By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Rudolf II, king of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, is paranoid, spendthrift, and wayward. In sixteenth-century Prague, seat of Christendom, he rules over an empty treasury and a court of parasites and schemers. Meanwhile in the ghetto, the Great Rabbi, mystic and seer, guides his people in the uneasy cohabitation of Jew and Christian, while the fabulously wealthy financier Mordechai Meisl has a hand in transactions across Europe and is reputed to be sustaining the treasury. His beautiful wife, Esther, forms a links of a different sort between the castle and the ghetto: By night under the stone bridge, she and the emperor entwine in their dreams under the guise of a white rosemary bush and a red rose. Only by severing the two plants can the Great Rabbi break the spell of forbidden love and deliver the city from the wrath of God. Perutz brings Old Prague to life with a cast of characters ranging from alchemists to the angel Assel, and including the likes of Johannes Kepler and the outlaw prince Wallenstein.
£12.99
