Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

George Saliba

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. The Islamic... Lees meer

Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe

John Krige

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• How America used its technological leadership in the 1950s and the 1960s to foster European collaboration and curb nuclear proliferation, with varying... Lees meer

Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science. The Col... Lees meer

Nationalizing Science

Alan J Rocke

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• After looking at the early careers of Wurtz's two mentors, Liebig and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Rocke describes Wurtz's life and career in the politically ... Lees meer

Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy

Kenneth L Caneva

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century p... Lees meer

Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method

Niccolò Guicciardini

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of ... Lees meer

Emil Du Bois-Reymond

Gabriel Finkelstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience. Emil du Bo... Lees meer

Age of Auto Electric

Matthew N Eisler

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which ... Lees meer

Bridging the Seas

Larrie D Ferreiro

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbui... Lees meer

Technoscience in History

Ursula Klein

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia. D... Lees meer

Picturing Machines 1400-1700

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of... Lees meer

Lenin's Laureate

Paul R Josephson

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet science from Stalin through Gorbachev. In... Lees meer

Spectrum of Belief

Myles W Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belie... Lees meer

The Psychophysical Ear

Alexandra Hui

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany an... Lees meer

Rational Action

William Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The evolution of a set of fields--including operations research and systems analysis--intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of ratio... Lees meer

Harmonious Triads

Myles W Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial sphere... Lees meer

Affinity, That Elusive Dream

Mi Gyung Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a ... Lees meer

The Age of Electroacoustics

Roland Wittje

• Hardcover | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The transformation of acoustics into electro-acoustics, a field at the intersection of science and technology, guided by electrical engineering, indus... Lees meer

Ships and Science

Larrie D Ferreiro

• Paperback | Engels | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn
• The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application ... Lees meer