British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550-1750)

Leo Corry

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in t... Lees meer

Explorations and False Trails

Jens Høyrup

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this histo... Lees meer

Reassessing Riemann's Paper

Walter Dittrich

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), a mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integrati... Lees meer

Historical Epistemology of Space

Matthias Schemmel

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This monograph investigates the development of human spatial knowledge by analyzing its elementary structures and studying how it is further shaped by... Lees meer

Distributivity-Like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements

Leo Corry

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• This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the medieval mathematical texts, particul... Lees meer

Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period

Robert Middeke-Conlin

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• This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research th... Lees meer

Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich

Michael Eckert

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book traces the history of Arnold Sommerfeld's famous "nursery of theoretical physics" at the University of Munich and demonstrates the centralit... Lees meer

Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy

John M Steele

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• This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the r... Lees meer

Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics

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• This book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers ... Lees meer

The Turbulence Problem

Michael Eckert

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "turbulence problem". T... Lees meer

Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Rocco Gaudenzi

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• What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and ele... Lees meer

The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India

Sreerup Raychaudhuri

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book narrates the history of the initiation and development of elementary particle physics in India and by Indians, focusing on the first half of... Lees meer

From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements

Helge Kragh

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• The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and n... Lees meer

The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes

Alexander Pechenkin

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• This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American... Lees meer

The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory

Herbert Capellmann

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• This book traces the evolution of the ideas that eventually resulted in the elementary quantum theory in 1925/26. Further, it discusses the essential ... Lees meer

Heisenberg's 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics

Alexander S Blum

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg's failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It fur... Lees meer

Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community During the Cold War

Roberto Lalli

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• Provides a new perspective on the history of general relativity Examines the attempt to build an institutional framework for international scientific ... Lees meer

The Copenhagen Network

Alexei Kojevnikov

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor... Lees meer

Bodies and Media

Ido Yavetz

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• This book presents a recasting of Aristotle's theory of spatial displacement of inanimate objects. Aristotle's claim that projectiles are actively car... Lees meer

Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists

Zdeňka Jastrzembská, Dagmar Pichová, Jan Zouhar

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists. It highlights the lives and achievements of a group that has often not ... Lees meer

How to Make a Database in Historical Studies

Tiago Luís Gil

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databa... Lees meer

Establishing Quantum Physics in Göttingen

Arne Schirrmacher

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• Quantum mechanics - the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level - was first formulated in Göttingen in 1925. How did t... Lees meer

Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Climério Paulo Da Silva Neto

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the fou... Lees meer

Mary Somerville and the World of Science

Allan Chapman

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in History of Science and Technology
• Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely... Lees meer