History of science (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological fin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully exterminated (30 years ago next year) by a public health campaign.

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards. They helped define the structure of J...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north....

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level whi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the pla...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian tradit...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:​This volume introduces Asian indigenous psychologies with an emphasis on major theoretical and practical issues. The contributions demonstrate the potential for the indigenous psychologies of Asia to offer an alternative model of the internationaliz...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Hans Paetz gen. Schieck zeigt in diesem essential nicht nur, wie rasant sich das Gebiet der Atome, Kerne und Teilchen bis zu den Quarks und Gluonen entwickelt hat. Er erläutert auch, wie alles begonnen hat – hier spielt die Person von Ernest Rutherfo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Aufführen, Aufzeichnen und Anordnen sind Kernoperationen von Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, deren Zusammenspiel die Beiträge dieses Bandes reflektieren. Aus der Art und Weise wie und auf welchen Ebenen diese Praktiken ineinandergreifen und sich wech...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:This book contextualizes autism as a socio cultural phenomenon, and examines the often troubling effects of representations and social trends. Exploring the individuals and events in the history of this condition, Waltz blends research and personal p...