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Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance : Reception, Legacy, Transformation
In Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance, Pietro Daniel Omodeo presents a general overview of the reception of Copernicus’s astronomical proposal from the years immediately preceding the publication of De revolutionibus (1543) to the Roman prohibition of heliocentric hypotheses in 1616.
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Features of Common Sense Geography: Implicit Knowledge Structures in Ancient Geographical Texts
The contributions in this volume combine fundamental questions of common sense geography with case studies of ancient geographical texts. The book seeks to bridge synchronic cognitive linguistic and cognitive psychological approaches to ancient texts with a diachronic perspective.
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Objects of chemical inquiry
Leading historians of chemistry present fascinating case studies illuminating a broad array of objects of inquiry in modern chemistry, from the eighteenth century until today. These include every day items such as glass as well as invisible networks of experimentation and theory.
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The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprised of fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work.
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Photography and Astronomy
During her time at the MPIWG Charlotte Bigg worked on a book, Photography and Astronomy, to appear in Reaktion Books’ Exposure series on the history o
Science, Gender, and Internationalism: Women’s Academic Networks, 1917–1955
Born out of the optimism of the Paris Peace Conference, the formation of the League of Nations, and the fight for women's suffrage in Britain and the United States, the International Federation of University Women was founded in 1919 and consciously set out to reshape interwar society.
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Saccheri, Gerolamo: Euclid Vindicated from Every Blemish
This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri's text by G.B. Halsted. It is complemented with a historical introduction on the geometrical environment of the time and a detailed commentary that helps to understand the aims and subtleties of the work.
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Melammu: the Ancient World in an Age of Globalization
The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.
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Rekurrenzen: Texte zu Althusser
Dieser Band führt in eine exemplarische Konstellation zurück, aus der die Historische Epistemologie hierzulande hervorgegangen ist: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger rekurriert auf den strukturalistischen Marxismus von Louis Althusser.
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L'économie Morale des Sciences Modernes
Les sciences modernes ont prétendu s’affranchir des intérêts de tous ordres et faire sortir la subjectivité et la morale de l’arène scientifique pour donner à voir des vérités absolues.
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