Proceedings Of The Xxth International Congress Of History Of Science Liège 20 26 July 1997

Author : Dieter Hoffmann,Michel Lette
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 2503511589

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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997). by Dieter Hoffmann,Michel Lette Pdf

Too often technology is seen as inferior to science, as a simple practical application of a self-sufficient "pure" knowledge. Such a dichotomy is for sure an illusion. The contributions met in this volume, reflecting the richness and the density of the session Science, Technology and Industry during the XXth International Congress of History of Science in Liege in 1997, show all technology as nothing less than the bridge between science on one side, society and economy on the other side. And this bridge is not a one-way road but a place of interactions between the theoretical and the applied, between the knowledge and the know-how. A special section of this book demonstrates that this equal footing dialogue has been particularly intense as far as the military technical development is concerned, and that for many centuries.

Author : Maurice Dorikens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503573568

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Scientific Instruments and Museums by Maurice Dorikens Pdf

Author : Dieter Hoffmann
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000078551995

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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997). by Dieter Hoffmann Pdf

Scholarly interest in the scientific activities caried out in various geographical areas of the Ottoman Empire between the 14th and the 20th century yielded a growing number of studies in recent years. The initial findings of these studies led scholars to question the view that Islamic science went into a decline after the 12th century, and to argue that Ottoman science constituted a new episode in Islamic science. The present volume begins with a survey on the Ottomans' transition from the Islamic to the European scientific tradition. This survey is followed by research papers dealing with: the introduction of modern science and technology to Turkey in the 18th and 19th centuries as regards the military technical training, the first railway line in Asiatic Turkey and the teaching of modern botany; the introduction of modern medicine and Darwinism in Egypt; Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt from the viewpoint of history of science and technology; and the mathematical activities in the Maghreb in both pre-Ottoman and Ottoman periods.

Author : Dieter Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 250350891X

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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997).: Le charbon de terre en Europe occidental avant l'usage industriel du coke by Dieter Hoffmann Pdf

Author : D. Buican
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503573525

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Biological and Medical Sciences by D. Buican Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:53950957

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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781105141003

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History of Mathematics in Africa: 2000-2011 by Paulus Gerdes,Ahmed Djebbar Pdf

Author : S. M. Razaullah Ansari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503561195

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Science and Technology in the Islamic World by S. M. Razaullah Ansari Pdf

Author : Dieter Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 2503508871

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Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997).: Between the natural and the artificial : dyestuffs and medicines by Dieter Hoffmann Pdf

This thematic volume consists of a selection of papers from the XXth International Congress of History of Science, which was held in Liege in 1997. Two separated symposia were concerned with the study of historical connections between such different scientific fields as chemistry, botany, pharmacy, medicine and their technical aspects. Natural products from plants and animals, and their artificial equivalents, which were especially studied and used for dyeing and for medicinal purposes, were discussed in both meetings. The various contributions of the present volume deal with many of these products in several countries (in Europe, Asia, Africa and America) from the medieval period to the XIXth century. The first part treats of some historical aspects of chemical and pharmaceutical questions related to selected dyestuffs. The second part deals with pharmaceutical products for medicinal and biological purposes. These studies should contribute to foster new interdisciplinary research in this field, which is bound to develop at the international level.

Author : Michel Bougard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503573584

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Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharmacy by Michel Bougard Pdf

Author : H. Kragh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 250357355X

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History of Modern Physics by H. Kragh Pdf

Author : Charles Galperin,Scott F. Gilbert,Brigitte Hoppe
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121901065

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Fundamental Changes in Cellular Biology in the 20th Century by Charles Galperin,Scott F. Gilbert,Brigitte Hoppe Pdf

This volume presents a collection of selected papers worked out for the XXth International Congress of History of Science held in July 1997 in Liege The first part analyzes interrelations between the exact sciences, chemistry and physics on the one hand, and life sciences on the other hand. It is well known that in many fields of biological sciences, mainly in those working with experimental methods, chemical and physical knowledge was integrated but the historic development of that interrelation is not yet known and cannot be explained enough in all details until the present day. By searching for the events in the past, historians of science find out that introducing physical and chemical methods and knowledge into life sciences was not a simple but very complex historical process. The second part was constructed during the centenary of E.B. Wilson's pioneering book The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1896), with an eye on this tradition of biological research. Wilson attempted to integrate cytology, embryology, and the chromosome theory of inheritance into a common cellular framework. It was only in the late 1970s that the synthesis now called cell biology, developmental biology and developmental genetics came into existence. The work carried out in Zurich under E. Hadorn's supervision was brought to light. Concepts and paths of research were defined, for example: homeosis, physiological genetics, 'body plans' allometry, homologies of process, evolution as 'bricolage' and finally a critical essay on different perspectives on development.

Author : Hassan Tahiri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319937335

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The Philosophers and Mathematics by Hassan Tahiri Pdf

This book explores the unique relationship between two different approaches to understand the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. It collects essays that examine the distinctive historical relationship between mathematics and philosophy. Readers learn what key philosophers throughout the ages thought about mathematics. This includes both thinkers who recognized the relevance of mathematics to their own work as well as those who chose to completely ignore its many achievements. The essays offer insight into the role that mathematics played in the formation of each included philosopher’s doctrine as well as the impact its remarkable expansion had on the philosophical systems each erected. Conversely, the authors also highlight the ways that philosophy contributed to the growth and transformation of mathematics. Throughout, significant historical examples help to illustrate these points in a vivid way. Mathematics has often been a favored interlocutor of philosophers and a major source of inspiration. This book is the outcome of an international conference held in honor of Roshdi Rashed, a renowned historian of mathematics. It provides researchers, students, and interested readers with remarkable insights into the history of an important relationship throughout the ages.

Author : George N. Vlahakis,Isabel Maria Coelho de Oliveira Malaquias,Nathan M. Brooks,M. Francois Regourd,Feza Gunergun,David Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781851096787

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Imperialism and Science by George N. Vlahakis,Isabel Maria Coelho de Oliveira Malaquias,Nathan M. Brooks,M. Francois Regourd,Feza Gunergun,David Wright Pdf

A unique resource that synthesizes existing primary and secondary sources to provide a fascinating introduction to the development and dissemination of science within history's great empires, as well as the complex interaction between imperialism and scientific progress over two centuries. Imperialism and Science is a scholarly yet accessible chronicle of the impact of imperialism on science over the past 200 years, from the effect of Catholicism on scientific progress in Latin America to the importance of U.S. government funding of scientific research to America's preeminent place in the world. Spanning two centuries of scientific advance throughout the age of empire, Imperialism and Science sheds new light on the spread of scientific thought throughout the former colonial world. Science made enormous advances during this period, often being associated with anti-Imperialist struggle or, as in the case of the science brought to 19th-century China and India by the British, with Western cultural hegemony.

Author : Patricia Ann Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317188582

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A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition by Patricia Ann Clark Pdf

In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic. Both fascinating and of critical importance, iatrosophia allow glimpses of classical and Byzantine medical sources and illustrate the vitality and resilience of Greek traditional medical and botanical knowledge. From years spent exploring local healing customs in Crete's Amari region, Patricia Clark is able to present Theodorakis' iatrosophion against a rich historical, geographical and social background. Introductory essays and explanatory notes to the translation give context to the iatrosophion and provide the specialized information necessary for a good understanding of the text. The abundant materia medica of the notebook is treated in a substantial appendix. Each animal, mineral, plant or product is provided with an overview of its various names through the millennia. Such entries are not only a key to understanding the Greek medical legacy, but also a vivid illustration of its usage from antiquity to the present day.