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Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500?1800(2011) RANKIN, ALISHASecrets played a central role in transformations in medical, alchemical, natural philosophical and commercial knowledge in early modern Europe. This volume brings together international scholars from a variety of fields to offer insights and new interpretVezava: Trda236,25 € -
How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon(2022) RHYS MORUS, IWANThe Victorians invented the idea of the future - it was an undiscovered country, ripe for exploration and colonisation.Vezava: Trda34,74 € -
John Dee's Conversations with Angels(2006) HARKNESS, DEBORAH E. (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS)John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexVezava: Mehka46,50 €
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Cosmic Microwave Background(2024) PEROVIC, SLOBODAN (UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE),CIRKOVIC, MILAN M. (ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGRADE, SERBIA)The untold story of how the cosmic microwave background radiation was interpreted following its discovery is a modern case study of theory building within the history and philosophy of science. It examines the epistemological factors at play between the eVezava: Trda73,49 € -
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Leonardo to the Internet(2011) MISA, THOMAS J. (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global secuVezava: Mehka35,32 € -
Wholeness of Nature(1996) BORTOFT, HENRIExamines the phenomenological and cultural roots of Goethe's approach to science, and argues that Goethe's insights represent the foundation for a future science of nature.Vezava: Mehka27,79 € -
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Man Who Changed Everything(2004) MAHON, BASILContents 1. A A country boy 2. A Pins and string 3. A Philosophy 4. A Learning to juggle 5. A Blue and yellow make pink 6. A Saturn and statistics 7. A Cast of characters 8. A Spinning cells 9. A The beautiful equations 10. A The LairdVezava: Mehka19,45 € -
Standards and Their Stories(2008)Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining...Vezava: Mehka48,22 € -
Ascent Of Man(2011) BRONOWSKI, JACOBTraces the development of human society through our understanding of science. This title discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they are expressions ofVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
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Civilization One(2010) KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHERAstounding revelations about a hitherto unknown civilization which predates the ancient Egyptians, with far-reaching implicationsVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Blood and Guts(2003) PORTER, ROYDiscusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those whoVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Seven Elements That Have Changed The World(2014) BROWNE, JOHNUranium, carbon, iron, titanium, gold, silver and silicon - former BP CEO John Browne explains how seven elements are shaping the 21st century, for good and for bad.Vezava: Mehka13,88 €
