History of Science
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Hermeneutics, History, and Technology: The Call of the Future
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resou...
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Atlas of the History of Modern Science 1500-2020: Overviews and Surveys in the Form of Charts, Maps and Diagrams
Thomas H. BrobjerCurrent price €97.84Original price €102.99This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand ...
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Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science: New Words, New Worlds
Catherine WattsCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Sarah Stewart JohnsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Current price €15.29Original price €17.99Save 15% -
The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
Daniel M DavisCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Visceral.Wall Street Journal Illuminating.Publishers Weekly Heroic.Science The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautifu...
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The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the b...
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William Blake, the Single Vision, and Newton''s Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry, and Progress
Keith DaviesCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poisis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely exp...
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The Prosciutto Sundial: Casting Light on an Ancient Roman Timepiece from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum
Christopher ParslowCurrent price €89.99Original price €99.99Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. P...
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How Maoism Was Made: Reconstructing China, 1949-1965
Oxford University PressCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99How Maoism Was Made focuses on the history of the early years in China after 1949, featuring new scholarship by academics across Europe and North A...
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The Rise of Science in Islam and the West: From Shared Heritage to Parting of The Ways, 8th to 19th Centuries
John W. LivingstonCurrent price €179.09Original price €198.99This is a study of science in Muslim society from its rise in the 8th century to the efforts of 19th-century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regai...
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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 17501865
Jeremy ZallenCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...
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Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered
Francesca BrayCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow...
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The Enlightenment of Thomas Beddoes: Science, medicine, and reform
Hugh TorrensCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in decidedly interesting times in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionar...
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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race: American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century
David DepewCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary...
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City, Court, Academy: Language Choice in Early Modern Italy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...
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Origins and Species: A Study of the Historical Sources of Darwinism and the Contexts of Some Other Accounts of Organic Diversity from Plato and Aristotle On
MJS HodgeCurrent price €222.29Original price €233.99Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory proble...
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Environments of Intelligence: From natural information to artificial interaction
Hajo GreifCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts...
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Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen is a translation of Johann Guinters textbook as revised and annotated by Guinters student, ...
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Visioning Technologies: The Architectures of Sight
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...
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Complementarity, Causality and Explanation
Taylor & Francis IncCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discuss...
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Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography
Cornelius BorckCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius...
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The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 17681820, Volume 4
Neil ChambersCurrent price €174.59Original price €193.99Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scie...
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The Re-Emergence of Virtual Reality
Leighton EvansCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99In this short book, Evans interrogates the implications of VRs re-emergence into the media mainstream, critiquing the notion of a VR revolution by ...
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