A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 55
• This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817... Lees meer

Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals

Jason a Tipton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 26
• This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aris... Lees meer

VIS VIM VI: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics

Tzuchien Tho

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 46
• This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz's dynamics project (c. 1676-1700) that contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of ... Lees meer

Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution

Andrea Strazzoni

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 51
• This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by... Lees meer

Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 40
• This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a r... Lees meer

Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 45
• This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction betwe... Lees meer

How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 53
• Critically examines the impact of cultural difference to reveal how knowledge is mobilized to regulate identities and to establish norms and values Hi... Lees meer

1543 and All That

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 13
• Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasia... Lees meer

Johannes Von Kries: Principles of the Probability Calculus

Keith K Niall

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 59
• This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses ... Lees meer

The Discourse of Sensibility

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 35
• This volume reconstructs the body of sensibility and the discourse which constructed it. The discourse of sensibility was deployed very widely through... Lees meer

The Responsibility of Science

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 57
• This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses ... Lees meer

Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation Through Failure

Ian Wills

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 52
• This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, T... Lees meer

René Descartes's Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies

Fabrizio Baldassarri

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 60
• This book explores René Descartes's attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanist... Lees meer

Reconsidering Historical Epistemology

Matteo Vagelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 61
• This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at... Lees meer

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to Our Post-Modern World

Roy J Shephard

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 39
• This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival require... Lees meer

The Responsibility of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 57
• This open access book provides an overview of issues of scientific responsibility. The volume comprises three types of contributions: first, analyses ... Lees meer

Borelli's on the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 38
• This volume provides an introduction to Borelli's theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to th... Lees meer

Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 12
• Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. 'Australasi... Lees meer

Borelli's on the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 37
• This volume provides an introduction to Borelli's theory on the movement of animals and demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its cause... Lees meer

From Discrete to Continuous

K Neal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 16
• In the early modern period, a crucial transformation occurred in the classical conception of number and magnitude. Traditionally, numbers were merely ... Lees meer

Causation and Laws of Nature

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 14
• Causation and Laws of Nature is a collection of articles which represents current research on the metaphysics of causation and laws of nature, mostly ... Lees meer

Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 17
• Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasia... Lees meer

Johannes Von Kries: Principles of the Probability Calculus

Keith K Niall

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 59
• This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses ... Lees meer

String Figures as Mathematics?

Eric Vandendriessche

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science | nr. 36
• This book addresses the mathematical rationality contained in the making of string figures. It does so by using interdisciplinary methods borrowed fro... Lees meer