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History and Speculative Fiction
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in...
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Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe
Athanasius Kircher, the eminent 17th-century German Jesuit professor of mathematics at the Roman College emerges as a captivating figure within the...
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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III Science Goes Vernacular
This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in...
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Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024 Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights
Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Oper...
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Primes and Particles Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Physics
Many philosophers, physicists, and mathematicians have wondered about the remarkable relationship between mathematics with its abstract, pure,...
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History of Romanian Technology and Industry Volume 2: Electrical Engineering, Energetics, Transport and Technology Education
This volume showcases the valuable achievements of the Romanian technology and industry worldwide. It started from the premise that the history of...
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A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World
This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to...
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The Renaissance of Mechanics Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism
This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its...
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The Magic of Living Consciousness The Wonders of the Mundane
This book demystifies the notion of living consciousness and aims to show that, far from being a mere accompaniment to brain functions, living...
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Rules and Exceptions in Biology: from Fundamental Concepts to Applications
This is the first book to cover and explore the rules and exceptions in biology. It presents past and current perspectives on the subject and...
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Empire, Nation-building, and the Age of Tropical Medicine, 1885–1960
This book investigates the complex relationship between the development of modern empires, nation, and the history of tropical medicine. Broadening...
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The Origins of the Idea of Scientific Progress Bernard de Fontenelle and His Contemporaries
This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy. The interpretation...
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Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature
Madness, Psychiatry, and Empire in Postcolonial Literatureprovides a comparatist interrogation of empire through archives of history, science, and...
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Dispositional Reality A Novel Approach to Power Ontology and Metaphysics
Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the...
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Francis Bacon’s Skeptical Recipes for New Knowledge
The book sets an ambitious goal. It devises a new account of scientific methodology that makes it possible to explain how scientists manage, at least...
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Sisters of Prometheus From the New Woman to Nobelity in Chemistry
This comprehensive book portrays the long-overdue recognition of women's work in chemistry, which only materialized with their late access to...
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Sisters of Prometheus Unmasking Women's Achievements in Chemistry
This monograph explores the participation of women in alchemy, chemical crafts, and the early stages of modern chemistry. By contextualizing their...
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From Automated to Autonomous Driving A Transnational Research History on Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change (1950-2000)
This book presents the most important milestones of the research on automated and autonomous driving in the United States, Japan and Europe...
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Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry
Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetryplaces contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine...
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The World of the Abbaco Abbacus Mathematics Analyzed and Situated Historically Between Fibonacci and Stifel
The abbacuswas a thorough and complete system of arithmetical calculations, which saw its dawn in the Indian and Arabic tradition of the Middle...
