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- BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00
Bernhard Varenius' books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to him. Varenius wrote the first comprehensive description of Japan ("Descriptio regni Japoniae," 1649) from a European perspective, exclusively based on a diversity of sources. But the... more...
- Primento Digital 2016; US$ 4.99
After setting sail aboard the Beagle to carry out a scientific expedition, Charles Darwin made some surprising discoveries: using the example of finches on the Galapagos Islands, he concluded that each of the 13 species he found must have evolved from one common ancestor and adapted to best suit their environment. This led to him developing his theory... more...
- OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 59.99
This book presents unpublished excerpts from extensive correspondence between Niels Bohr and his immediate family, and uses it to describe and analyze the psychological and cultural background to his invention of the quantum theory of the atom. more...
- Cambridge University Press 2015; US$ 80.00
Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English. more...
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013; US$ 44.99
zu der hinterlassenen Abllamllullg VOll Abel, S. 57-81. ?? 1 Die Definition der Ordnung eines algebraischen Ausdrucks, wie sie auf Seite 67 gegeben ist, ist incorrcct und nach der auf S. 10 angefiihrten zu berichtigen. Die Ordnung eines algebraischen Ausdrucks ist also nicht gleich der Anzahl der in ihm ausser den bekannten Grössen auftretenden Wurzelgrössen,... more...
- Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 110.00
This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues as biometric identification, immigration control and personal data use. more...
- University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 27.50
The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations?their histories of migration and genealogical connections to other present-day groups?this... more...
- Springer Netherlands 2012; Not Available
Using Vinogradskii?s career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists and plant physiologists inscribed the concept of a ?cycle of life? into their investigations. more...
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 21.95
When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia , a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws... more...