This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-cent...Loe edasi...
This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée....Loe edasi...
This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of his fierce critique of atomism, which is the most emblematic and disputed example of his polemical accounts, and demonstrates his reliability....Loe edasi...
The book approaches the history of railway building and its impact upon economic change in a new way. The volume is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars who are examining the economic and social history of the Victorian period....Loe edasi...
The materials in volume two explore how the transformationof electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Accompanied The collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science...Loe edasi...
The materials in this volume cover the works of those for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. This collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the Hi...Loe edasi...
This volume of sources examines electric power, politics and culture in Victorian Britain. The materials review the formalization of electric power infrastructures as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale, and explore how people a...Loe edasi...
The History and Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) is a relatively new yet rapidly growing field. Emerging from diverse approaches within the history and philosophy of science, it encompasses a wide range of philosophical reflections on the nature, metho...Loe edasi...
This book offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative account of the natural philosophy and of the conception of the laws of nature by Francis Bacon, one of the leading English reformers of natural science and an inspirer of the Scientific Rev...Loe edasi...
This innovative take on construction toys explores the development and use of building-inspired playthings between 1830 and 1940 as they became the educational toys par excellence for industrial and industrialising societies in Europe and elsewhere....Loe edasi...
Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies...Loe edasi...
As antimicrobial resistance threatens global health, phages have reemerged as subjects of scientific inquiry. The Role of Phages in Early Molecular Genetics: History of an Emerging Discipline bridges history, physics, and virology, offering a narrat...Loe edasi...
The importance of place as a unique spatial identity has been recognized since antiquity. This volume examines the concept of place as it relates to architectural production and building knowledge in early modern Europe (1400-1800)....Loe edasi...
Both the Christian Bible and Aristotles works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth. This book investigates why 16th century Europeans were so interested in waters failure to submerge the earth when their predecessors had not been....Loe edasi...
Using the example of Amsterdams Concertgebouw in the nineteenth century, Cressman shows how its design was in part intended to help discipline and educate concert audiences to listen attentively....Loe edasi...
This book offers sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment (RRR) practices across the fields of history of science, archaeology, art history, conservation, music...Loe edasi...
This collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making practices with an emphasis on mapping methodological approaches against printed pictures and things....Loe edasi...
First published in 1955, The Robot Era presents a pioneering examination of the emerging field of robotics and automated systems during the post-World War II industrial expansion. This work offers valuable historical insights into how these revoluti...Loe edasi...
A History of Spectroscopy retraces the major stages in the growth of the various spectroscopic methods from their origins, as well as the most recent advances and the hopes they raise for future technological progress. With its multidisciplinary asp...Loe edasi...
