The Romance Of Science Essays In Honour Of Trevor H Levere

Author : Jed Buchwald,Larry Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319584362

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The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere by Jed Buchwald,Larry Stewart Pdf

The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere’s many themes and interests, The Romance of Science assembles historians of science -- all influenced by Levere's work -- to explore such matters as the place and space of instruments in science, the role and meaning of science museums, poetry in nature, chemical warfare and warfare in nature, science in Canada and the Arctic, Romanticism, aesthetics and morals in natural philosophy, and the “dismal science” of economics. The Romance of Science explores the interactions between science's romantic, material, institutional and economic engagements with Nature.

Author : Herbert Bruderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030409746

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Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing by Herbert Bruderer Pdf

This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.

Author : David Philip Miller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986799

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The Life and Legend of James Watt by David Philip Miller Pdf

The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.

Author : Kathrin Otrel-Cass,Maria Andrée,Minjung Ryu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030509217

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Examining Ethics in Contemporary Science Education Research by Kathrin Otrel-Cass,Maria Andrée,Minjung Ryu Pdf

This book poses questions on how to work ethically in research on science education. Applying research ethics reflectively and responsibly is fundamental for conducting research with people. It seeks to renew the conversation on how and why to engage with ethics in science education research and to adjust and refine research practices. It highlights both the need for methodological reflections in science education research and the particular ethical research challenges of science education. Science education research involves the study of people – often young and vulnerable people – and their practices. Researchers working within humanities and social science research commonly follow guidelines and codes of conducts set by country-specific ethics committees. Such guidelines function as minimal requirement for ethical reflection. This book seeks to engage the community of science education researchers in a conversation on ethics in science education moving beyond the mere compliance with governmental regulations toward a collective reflection. It asks the question of whether the existing guidelines provided for researchers are keeping up with contemporary realities of the visual presence of individuals in digital spaces. It also asks questions on how participatory research methodologies alters the relations between researchers and practitioners. This book is organized into two parts: Part one is entitled Challenging existing norms and practices. It asks questions such as: What are the conditions of knowledge that shape ethical decision making? Where is this kind of knowledge coming from? How is this knowledge structured, and where are the limitations? How can we justify our beliefs concerning our ethical research actions? Part two Epistemological considerations for ethical science education research centres norms and practices of conducting science education research in regard to methods, validity and scope.

Author : Stephen Case,Lukas M. Verburgt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781009237703

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The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel by Stephen Case,Lukas M. Verburgt Pdf

The first-ever comprehensive account of John Herschel's life, work and legacy, shedding new light on the history of Victorian science.

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781009314831

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The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany by Peter Thompson Pdf

Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the gas mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future.

Author : Malcolm Dick,Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789625042

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James Watt (1736-1819) by Malcolm Dick,Caroline Archer-Parré Pdf

James Watt is celebrated as the inventor of the energy efficient pumping and rotative steam engines. Studies of Watt have focused on his inventiveness, influence and reputation. This book explores new aspects of his work and places him in family, social and intellectual contexts during the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution.

Author : Trevor H. Levere,W. R. Shea
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401073384

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Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences by Trevor H. Levere,W. R. Shea Pdf

This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance physics and natural philosophy; and so he should not be surprised in this volume to see emphases and methods congenial to him, even on topics as remote as Darwin or the chemical revolution. Therein lies whatever unity the discerning reader may find in this book, beyond the natural focus and coherence of the largest section, on Galileo, and the final section on Drake's collection of books, a major and now accessible resource for research in the field that he has made his own. We have chosen, as the occasion for presenting the volume to Stillman Drake, Galileo's birthday; Galileo has had more than one birthday party in Toronto since Drake came to the University of Toronto. As for the title, it reflects a shared conviction that experiment is the key to science; it is what scientists do. Drake has already asserted that emphasis in the title of his magisterial Galileo at Work, and we echo it here. Those who have had the privilege and pleasure of working and arguing with Stillman over the years know his tenacity, penetration, and vigour. They also know his generosity and humility. We owe him much.

Author : Trevor H. Levere,W. R. Shea
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 0792304209

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Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences by Trevor H. Levere,W. R. Shea Pdf

This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence. It is difficult to know him without succumbing to his combination of discipline and enthusiasm, even in fields remote from Renaissance physics and natural philosophy; and so he should not be surprised in this volume to see emphases and methods congenial to him, even on topics as remote as Darwin or the chemical revolution. Therein lies whatever unity the discerning reader may find in this book, beyond the natural focus and coherence of the largest section, on Galileo, and the final section on Drake's collection of books, a major and now accessible resource for research in the field that he has made his own. We have chosen, as the occasion for presenting the volume to Stillman Drake, Galileo's birthday; Galileo has had more than one birthday party in Toronto since Drake came to the University of Toronto. As for the title, it reflects a shared conviction that experiment is the key to science; it is what scientists do. Drake has already asserted that emphasis in the title of his magisterial Galileo at Work, and we echo it here. Those who have had the privilege and pleasure of working and arguing with Stillman over the years know his tenacity, penetration, and vigour. They also know his generosity and humility. We owe him much.

Author : Robert M. Brain,Robert S. Cohen,Ole Knudsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402029875

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Hans Christian Ørsted and the Romantic Legacy in Science by Robert M. Brain,Robert S. Cohen,Ole Knudsen Pdf

This fascinating text is an exploration of the relationship between science and philosophy in the early nineteenth century. This subject remains one of the most misunderstood topics in modern European intellectual history. By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Ørsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism.

Author : Jürgen Renn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691218595

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The Evolution of Knowledge by Jürgen Renn Pdf

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing vital perspectives on the complex challenges confronting us today in the Anthropocene—this new geological epoch shaped by humankind. Renn reframes the history of science and technology within a much broader history of knowledge, analyzing key episodes such as the evolution of writing, the emergence of science in the ancient world, the Scientific Revolution of early modernity, the globalization of knowledge, industrialization, and the profound transformations wrought by modern science. He investigates the evolution of knowledge using an array of disciplines and methods, from cognitive science and experimental psychology to earth science and evolutionary biology. The result is an entirely new framework for understanding structural changes in systems of knowledge—and a bold new approach to the history and philosophy of science. Written by one of today's preeminent historians of science, The Evolution of Knowledge features discussions of historiographical themes, a glossary of key terms, and practical insights on global issues ranging from climate change to digital capitalism. This incisive book also serves as an invaluable introduction to the history of knowledge.

Author : M. Evans
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137121547

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Sublime Coleridge by M. Evans Pdf

Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime. This book is an introduction, a reader's guide, and an interpretation of this central text in British Romanticism.

Author : Thomas H. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108424950

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Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air by Thomas H. Ford Pdf

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : UCLA:L0100129444

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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Neu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X004270703

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Isis Cumulative Bibliography 1986-1995 by John Neu Pdf