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Objectivité
Daston, Lorraine; Galison, Peter
L'objectivité a une histoire, et celle-ci se révèle pleine de surprises. Lorraine Daston et Peter Galison retracent dans cette somme l'émergence de l'objectivité dans les sciences au milieu du XIXe siècle et montrent comment ce concept se distingue de deux vertus concurrentes la vérité d'après nature et le jugement exercé. More
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What did the Romans know? An inquiry into science and worldmaking
Lehoux, Daryn
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux draws upon a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the first century BC to the second century AD. More
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The equilibrium controversy: Guidobaldo del Monte's critical notes on the mechanics of Jordanus and Benedetti and their historical and conceptual background
This study, the second volume of the series "Sources" of the "Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge," reviews a historical discussion about the question of whether a balance in equilibrium, after having been deflected, returns to its original position. More
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Apollonius Pictus: an illustrated late antique romance around 1000 ; facsimile edition of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
Boreczky, Anna; Németh, András
This volume adjacently provides the reader with a facsimile and a multifold account of a thousand-year-old manuscript (Budapest, National Széchényi Library, Cod. Lat. 4), the oldest known illustrated copy of the late antique Latin adventure romance "History of Apollonius, King of Tyre". More
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The sciences of the soul: the early modern origins of psychology
The Sciences of the Soul is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. More
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Einstein and the changing worldviews of physics
Lehner, Christoph; Renn, Jürgen; Schemmel, Matthias
This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century. The focus is on the conditions and consequences of Einstein's pathbreaking achievements that sealed the decline of the classical notions of space, time, radiation, and matter, and resulted in the theory of relativity. More
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Himmels-Falten : zur Theatralität des Fliegens in der Frühen Neuzeit
Himmels-Falten eröffnet eine neue Perspektive auf die Geschichte der Luftfahrt, indem es das Theater der Frühen Neuzeit als einen Schauplatz aviatischer Wissensproduktion herausstellt. Es werden acht exemplarische Interferenzbereiche zwischen Flugkunst und -wissen in den Blick genommen. More
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The German Physical Society and the Third Reich: physicists between autonomy and accommodation
Hoffmann, Dieter; Walker, Mark
This is a history of one of the oldest and most important scientific societies, the German Physical Society, during the Nazi regime and immediate postwar period. More
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Critical neuroscience: a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience
Choudhury, Suparna; Slaby, Jan
'Critical Neuroscience' brings together multi-disciplinary scholars from around the world to explore key social, historical and philosophical studies of neuroscience, and to analyze the socio-cultural implications of recent advances in the field. More
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Science and faith within reason: reality, creation, life and design
In this book leading authors in the field of science and religion, highlight the oft-neglected and profound philosophical foundations that underlie some of the most frequent questions at the boundary between science and religion: the reality of knowledge, and the notions of creation, life and design. More
