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Die Erzeugung des ‚ganzen Menschen‘ : zur Entstehung von Anthropologie und Ästhetik an der Universität Halle im 18. Jahrhundert
Die Ästhetik wird als eigenständige philosophische Disziplin im zweiten Drittel des 18. Jahrhunderts begründet. Zur gleichen Zeit treibt die Frage nach dem ganzen Menschen die Gemüter um: Eine neue Wissenschaft vom Menschen, die Anthropologie, kündigt sich an.
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The Crafting of the 10.000 Things : Knowledge and Technology in 17th Century China
Offering an overview of a thousand years of scholarship, "The Crafting of the 10,000 Things" explains the role of technology and crafts in a culture that had an outstandingly successful tradition in this field and was a crucial influence on the technical development of Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
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Hormones of Life : Endocrinology, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Dream of a Remedy for Sterility, 1930–1970
In the summer of 1948, the Danish pharmaceutical company Leo called a press conference. The next day, news spread that in collaboration with scientists at the Royal Caroline Hospital in Stockholm, the company had discovered a cure for sterility to be called Gonadex.
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Saccheri, Gerolamo: Euclide Vendicato da Ogni Neo
Primo volume della collana Mathematica dedicato alla figura del matematico Gerolamo Saccheri (1667-1733), di cui Vincenzo De Risi presenta qui una delle opere fondamentali in una traduzione corredata di apparato critico.
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Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks
This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri, a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687).
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Herausforderung Energie: ausgewählte Vorträge der 126. Versammlung der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e. V.
Die Atomdiskussion des Jahres 2011 berührt vielschichtige Aspekte der Energieversorgung. Das Buch bietet dazu aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen aktuell Informationen und Hintergründe in allgemein verständlicher Form.
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Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy
In "Between Raphael and Galileo", Alexander Marr resurrects the career and achievements of Oddi in order to examine the ways in which mathematics, material culture, and the book shaped knowledge, society, and the visual arts in late Renaissance Italy.
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Silent Messengers: the Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted or printed images.
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Bernardino Baldi’s In Mechanica Aristotelis Problemata Exercitationes
The "Exercitationes" display a systematic application of Archimedean principles to the explanation of the questions discussed in "Mechanical Problems" illustrating the patchwork character of preclassical mechanics.
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Die missionarische Gesellschaft: Mikrostrukturen einer kolonialen Globalisierung
Aus kulturhistorischer Perspektive wird die Gesellschaftsgestaltung durch katholische und protestantische Missionare aus verschiedenen europäischen Kolonialstaaten zwischen 1700 und 1900 nachgezeichnet.
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