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Welteis: eine wahre Geschichte
Spätestens als 1969 die ersten Menschen den Mond betraten, konnte es keinen Zweifel mehr geben: Der Trabant bestand nicht aus Eis, wie der österreichische Maschineningenieur Hanns Hörbiger behauptet hatte. Erstmals wird die schillernde Geschichte dieser kosmologischen Theorie erzählt.
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Philippe de la Hire: Entre Science et Architecture
Personnage fascinant et polymorphe, Philippe de La Hire a été cartographe du royaume à l'Académie royale des sciences, s'est intéressé à l'hydraulique, à la gnomonique, à la physiologie, à la botanique et à l'astronomie à l'Observatoire de Paris où il fut nommé.
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Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: the Nova Scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia – a New Edition
In 1537, Tartaglia, a mathematician from Brescia, published 'Nova scientia'. It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia’s intention was to create a purely mathematical science based on axioms, which was fundamental to the entire subject of mechanics.
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Underdetermination, Decompositon, and the A Priori
Teru Miyake's project focused on the problem of underdetermination, particularly in cases where the object of investigation is inaccessible to scienti
Translating Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries
Knowledge of nature may be common to all of humanity, yet it is written in many tongues. However, as the contributors to this volume show, translation is always a transformation. The book "Translating knowledge in the early modern Low Countries" examines how such transformations generate new knowledge and how translations helped to establish a new science.
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The Transatlantic World of Higher Education: Americans at German Universities, 1776–1914
Between the 1760s and 1914, thousands of young Americans crossed the Atlantic to enroll in German-speaking universities, but what was it like to be an American in, for instance, Halle, Heidelberg, Göttingen, or Leipzig?
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Guidobaldo del Monte (1545–1607): Theory and Practice of the Mathematical Disciplines from Urbino to Europe
Guidobaldo Marquis dal Monte has long been identified as a key figure in the history of the mathematical disciplines in the Renaissance. The contributions brought together in this volume examine all the key aspects of the Marquis dal Monte’s activities, ranging from mechanics and the science of perspective to architecture and geometry.
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Moritz Schlick - Die Rostocker Jahre und ihr Einfluss auf die Wiener Zeit
Die vorliegenden, vor allem auf der Grundlage des bisher nur unzureichend berücksichtigten Nachlasses entstandenen Studien geben Aufschlüsse über die für Schlick besonders prägenden Rostocker Jahre (1910 bis 1922). Zudem wird gezeigt, wie Schlick seine in diesem Zeitraum entwickelten Perspektiven in den Kontext des sich seit 1924 herausbildenden Wiener Kreises einbrachte.
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Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics: HQ-3 Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics, Berlin, June 28 - July 2, 2010
More than a century after the beginning of the quantum revolution, historians continue to explore new facets in the history of quantum physics, and to re-examine some of its better-known aspects.
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Taming Complexity: Duhem’s Third Pathway to Thermodynamics
The present study deals with Duhem's theoretical and meta-theoretical design of a generalised Mechanics based on the principles of Thermodynamics, in the decade between 1886 and 1896, before the transformations experienced by the physical sciences around the turn of the century.
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