History of science (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This volume is an important re-evaluation of space and spatiality in the late Renaissance and early modern period. History of science has generally reduced sixteenth and seventeenth century space to a few canonical forms. This volume gives a much nee...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the brain couples with symbolic technologies. Understandin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This unique volume by two renowned astrophotographers unveils the science and history behind 100 of the most significant astronomical images of all time. The authors have carefully selected their list of images from across time and technology to brin...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is an informal autobiography by John West MD PhD. He obtained his medical degree in Adelaide, Australia and then spent 15 years mainly at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital in London where he, with others, used radi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description: In diesem Buch finden Sie die von Willy Kükenthal, dem berühmten deutschen Zoologen und Forschungsreisenden, erhaltenen Briefe, die er während seiner Reise in den Malaiischen Archipel Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts an seine Frau geschrieben hat und ein ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book examines the role played by civil nuclear energy in Britain’s relationship with Europe between the end of the Second World War and London’s first application to join the European Communities. Tracing the development of the British nuclear p...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:A new and innovative account of British sociology's intellectual origins that uses previously unknown archival resources to show how the field's forgotten roots in a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century debate about biology can help us underst...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This monograph presents a new perspective on the history of general relativity. It outlines the attempts to establish an institutional framework for the promotion of the field during the Cold War. Readers will learn the difficulties that key figures ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This interdisciplinary book explores both the connections and the tensions between sociological, psychological, and biological theories of exhaustion. It examines how the prevalence of exhaustion – both as an individual experience and as a broader so...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychological types have often been overshadowed by allegations that he was anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathizer. M...