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Max Planck : die Entstehung der modernen Physik
„Eine einzigartige Tat, die nicht nur der Physik, sondern dem Weltbild aller Menschen eine neue Wendung gegeben hat“, nannte der Nobelpreisträger Max von Laue die Quantentheorie, als deren Begründer Max Planck in die Geschichte eingegangen ist.
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From Summetria to Symmetry : The Making of a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
The concept of symmetry is inherent to modern science, and its evolution has a complex history that richly exemplifies the dynamics of scientific change. This study is based on primary sources, presented in context: the authors examine closely the trajectory of the concept in the mathematical and scientific disciplines as well as its trajectory in art and architecture.
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O Corpo Incerto : Corporeidade, Tecnologias Médicas e Cultura Contemporanea
Historians and Nationalism : East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Monika Baar discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century.
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The Excess of the Photographic Archive
Photography's ability to record and the reproducabilty of the medium have determined its economic potential, and led to the development of market base
L'histoire des Sciences : Méthodes, Styles et Controverses
L'histoire des sciences n'est pas seulement une discipline érudite, elle est au coeur des débats philosophiques contemporains. Les textes réunis ici marquent les grands moments de cette discipline.
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Res vivens : Agentenmodelle organischer Ordnung 1600 - 1800
Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral, and Natural Philosophy
This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century.
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Parasiten und Sirenen : Zwischenräume als Orte der materiellen Wissensproduktion
Historical Perspectives on Erklären und Verstehen
The conceptual pair of "Erklären" and "Verstehen" (explanation and understanding) has been an object of philosophical and methodological debates for well over a century.
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