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Physik im Kalten Krieg: Beiträge zur Physikgeschichte während des Ost-West-Konflikts
Während des Kalten Krieges spielten die physikalischen Wissenschaften eine zentrale Rolle in den beiden Machtblöcken. Die Beiträge nehmen das Extrem dieses Spannungsverhältnisses in den Blick, wie Ideologie und Politik die Entwicklung der Physik beeinflussten und deformierten.
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William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
The manuscripts of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), now in the archive of the British Library, reveal the connections and contrasts between his photographic innovations and his investigations into optics, mathematics, botany, archaeology, and classical studies.
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Wissenschaft vom Gehen: die Erforschung der Bewegung im 19. Jahrhundert
Erstaunliche Geschichten aus der Erforschung eines der scheinbar vertrautesten Tätigkeiten des Menschen, dem Gehen – von Physiologie und Medizin über die Kriminologie bis hin zur Literatur und bildender Kunst.
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Tears in Time: The Archival Imaginary of Post-War French Cinema
This project explored the role of the archive, as an institution, theme, and formal resource, in French film culture in the post-Second World War peri
Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s. The contributors explore the interaction of science, medicine and society in determining how heredity was viewed across the world during the politically turbulent years of the twentieth century.
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Itérations
Sous ce titre qui rend hommage à la pensée de Derrida, sont rassemblées des conférences tenues par le biologiste Hans-Jörg Rheinberger entre 1994 et 2007. Six textes aussi brefs que denses, nourris de vie de laboratoire et de philosophie franco-allemande – de Gaston Bachelard à Bruno Latour en passant par Martin Heidegger et Jacques Lacan –, qui donnent à voir un mouvement épistémologique sur le temps long.
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Einstein’s Berlin: in the Footsteps of a Genius
Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and lived there until 1932. The author conveys how Einstein's life and work were linked to the scientific and social life of the city and inspires the reader to explore the places where he made his mark.
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Research and Pedagogy : A History of Quantum Physics through its Textbooks
Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught once they are fully understood and generally accepted.
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How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass.
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Women in Industrial Research
This book presents new research on women scientists who enjoyed careers at industrial corporations during the first seven decades of the twentieth century. It focuses on women who were active in Germany, Russia, and the United States, but the situation in Greece, France, and Great Britain is also addressed.
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