Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 62
• This volume is a study of the many dimensions of the early reception of Cartesianism in German-speaking Europe during the seventeenth century based on... Lees meer

Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 69
• This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editori... Lees meer

Practicing the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory

Martin Jähnert

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 56
• This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective. The author provides a unique exploration of the relation between ... Lees meer

Thunderball

Paula J Longhurst

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 2
• It's supposed to be a simple pickup at Stansted airport but when the chauffeur's name is Nikki Doyle there is no such thing as 'simple'. There's a cof... Lees meer

Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer

Francesca Biagioli

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 46
• This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the ... Lees meer

Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 61
• This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to brin... Lees meer

Practicing the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory

Martin Jähnert

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 56
• This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective. The author provides a unique exploration of the relation between ... Lees meer

Draughtsmen, Botanists and Nature:

Kärin Nickelsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 15
• This book is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Bern in thesummerof2002. Researchonthethesiswasmadepossiblethroughagrant provid... Lees meer

Newton's Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept

Jamie C Kassler

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 53
• These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton's work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time. Newton used the concept of "sensorium... Lees meer

Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 71
• This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes fou... Lees meer

History of Nonlinear Oscillations Theory in France (1880-1940)

Jean-Marc Ginoux

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 49
• This book reveals the French scientific contribution to the mathematical theory of nonlinear oscillations and its development. The work offers a criti... Lees meer

One Hundred Years of Pressure

Alan F Chalmers

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 51
• This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins ... Lees meer

A Mathematician's Journeys

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 45
• This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has bee... Lees meer

Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 50
• This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the h... Lees meer

Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer

Francesca Biagioli

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 46
• This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the ... Lees meer

Reworking the Bench

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 7
• Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the ... Lees meer

The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis

• Paperback | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 59
• This volume explores the challenges of sustaining long-term ecological research through a historical analysis of the Long Term Ecological Research Pro... Lees meer

The Renaissance of Mechanics

Walter Roy Laird

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 68
• 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 re... Lees meer

Texts, Textual Acts and the History of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 42
• The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and implements a Text Act Theory which extends Speech Act... Lees meer

A Mathematician's Journeys

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 45
• This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has bee... Lees meer

David Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898-1918)

L Corry

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 10
• David Hilbert (1862-1943) was the most influential mathematician of the early twentieth century and, together with Henri Poincaré, the last mathematic... Lees meer

Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 1
• The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate... Lees meer

Leadership and Creativity

Dong-Won Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 5
• Historical accounts of successful laboratories often consist primarily of reminiscences by their directors and the eminent people who studied or worke... Lees meer

The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities

Russell McCormmach

• Hardcover | Engels | Archimedes | nr. 36
• Profiles the eminent 18th century natural philosopher Henry Cavendish, best known for his work in chemistry and physics and one of the most baffling p... Lees meer