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The Genesis of Feynman Diagrams
In a detailed reconstruction of the genesis of Feynman diagrams the author reveals that their development was constantly driven by the attempt to resolve fundamental problems concerning the uninterpretable infinities that arose in quantum as well as classical theories of electrodynamic phenomena.
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Historische Epistemologie zur Einführung
Erst allmählich entwickelte sich im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts ein komplexes, sozialhistorisch und denkhistorisch motiviertes Nachdenken über Wissenschaft, das in seinem Kern darin bestand, die Wissenschaftsphilosophie zu historisieren.
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Les Corps Vils : Expérimenter sur les êtres Humains aux XVIIIe et XIXe Siècles
Écoutez Diderot justifier la vivisection des condamnés à mort, devenus inhumains par leur déchéance civique. Écoutez Pasteur... Écoutez Koch...
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A New Deal : Post-Soviet Realities Meet Welfare State Models ; in what Way will this Reflect on the Arts?
“A New Deal” is a report that contains essays, statements and discussions on art from different perspectives from around the Baltic Sea.
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Sognare a Libro Aperto : “L’interpretazione dei Sogni” di Freud e la Storia del Movimento Psicoanalitico
Raccogliendo straordinari testi inediti, qui tradotti per la prima volta, gli autori ci portano nell’«officina» di Freud e ci mostrano come, sin dall’inizio, i lettori dell’Interpretazione furono molto eterogenei e diedero vita a un dibattito acceso e accalorato, che finì addirittura per coinvolgere la stessa famiglia dell’autore , e travolgerne la quotidianità.
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The Origins of Organ Transplantation : Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880–1930
This book investigates a crucial-but forgotten-episode in the history of medicine. In it, Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the earliest clinical and experimental organ transplant surgeries.
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Histories of Scientific Observation
Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and myriad other ingenious inventions designed to make the invisible visible, the evanescent permanent, the abstract concrete.
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Wired Wilderness : Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife
American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book-length study of the origin, evolution, use, and impact of these now-commonplace tracking technologies.
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Overcoming the Division of Labor in Global Tectonics: Eduard Suess‘ The Face of the Earth
In the late nineteenth century, geological research practices were subject to a definite change. Geology turned from stratigraphy, i.e., the ordering
„Fremde“ Wissenschaftler im Dritten Reich: die Debye-Affäre im Kontext
Ausgehend von der sogenannte »Debye-Affäre« im Frühjahr 2006 analysieren die Autoren nicht nur die wissenschaftlichen und politischen Kontexte im Leben und Werk von Peter Debye, sondern kontrastieren seine Biographie vor allem mit Lebensläufen anderer Wissenschaftler, die im Dritten Reich wirkten.
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