Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers ... Lees meer

How to Make a Database in Historical Studies

Tiago Luís Gil

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databa... Lees meer

The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India

Sreerup Raychaudhuri

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book narrates the history of the initiation and development of elementary particle physics in India and by Indians, focusing on the first half of... Lees meer

From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements

Helge Kragh

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and n... Lees meer

Weizac: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945-1963)

Leo Corry, Raya Leviathan

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a "new nation" in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the fea... Lees meer

Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy

John M Steele

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the r... Lees meer

Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with Weizac, 1955-1963

Leo Corry, Raya Leviathan

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they used the first electronic computer... Lees meer

Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period

Robert Middeke-Conlin

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research th... Lees meer

The Turbulence Problem

Michael Eckert

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "turbulence problem". T... Lees meer

Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen

Arne Schirrmacher

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• Quantum mechanics - the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level - was first formulated in Göttingen in 1925. How did t... Lees meer

The Copenhagen Network

Alexei Kojevnikov

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor... Lees meer

Mary Somerville and the World of Science

Allan Chapman

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely... Lees meer

Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain

Christopher D Hollings

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War. It d... Lees meer

Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Rocco Gaudenzi

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and ele... Lees meer

Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience

Hannah C Erlwein, Katja Krause

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What ki... Lees meer

British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550-1750)

Leo Corry

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in t... Lees meer

Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin

Hubert Goenner, Giuseppe Castagnetti

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book explores Albert Einstein's move to Berlin and the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under his directorship. Einstein... Lees meer

The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes

Alexander Pechenkin

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American... Lees meer

The Bumpy Road

Massimiliano Badino

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck's theory of r... Lees meer

From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War

Alison Kraft

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwa... Lees meer

Distributivity-Like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements

Leo Corry

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the medieval mathematical texts, particul... Lees meer

Philosophy and Allotment: John Locke's Influence on Henry L. Dawes

David Bergeron

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book provides a new perspective for examining the Native policies of the late nineteenth century. It centers on the figure of Henry Laurens Dawes... Lees meer

A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China

Christine Yi Lai Luk

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an am... Lees meer

Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953--1970)

Raya Leviathan, Leo Corry

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals ... Lees meer