1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453947503321

Autore

Finkelstein Gabriel Ward

Titolo

Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany / / Gabriel Finkelstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-262-31484-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Collana

Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology

Disciplina

612.8092

B

Soggetti

Neurosciences - Philosophy - History - 19th century

Physiologists - Germany

Physiology, Experimental - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Beginnings; 1 Childhood; 2 Youth; 3 Apprenticeship; II Experiments; 4 Science; 5 Revolution; 6 Paris; III Life; 7 Love; 8 Marriage and Career; 9 Public and Private; IV Fame; 10 Politics and History; 11 Goethe and Darwin; 12 Limits; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818-1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocative addresses on politics and culture. This biography by Gabriel Finkelstein draws on personal papers, published writings, and contemporary responses to tell the story of a major scientific figure. Du Bois-Reymond's discovery of the electrical transmission of nerve signals, his innovations in laboratory instrumentation, and his reductionist methodology all helped lay the foundations of modern neuroscience.In addition to describing the pioneering experiments that earned du Bois-



Reymond a seat in the Prussian Academy of Sciences and a professorship at the University of Berlin, Finkelstein recounts du Bois-Reymond's family origins, private life, public service, and lasting influence. Du Bois-Reymond's public lectures made him a celebrity. In talks that touched on science, philosophy, history, and literature, he introduced Darwin to German students (triggering two days of debate in the Prussian parliament); asked, on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, whether France had forfeited its right to exist; and proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, heralding the age of doubt. The first modern biography of du Bois-Reymond in any language, this book recovers an important chapter in the history of science, the history of ideas, and the history of Germany.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996536471903316

Autore

BURROUGH, Edward <1634-1662.>

Titolo

Some of the principles of the Quakers (scornfully so called by men) vindicated and proved sound and true and according to the Scriptures : in oposition to the false charges and lying reports given forth against the truth in two printed books put forth by one Philip Taverner, a supposed minister of the Gospel in Middlesex near Vxbridge ... / by Edw. Burrough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : [s.n], 1658

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) (23 p.)

Disciplina

289.6

Soggetti

Quaccheri

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145287603321

Autore

Sciuto Donatella

Titolo

2008 Design, Automation, and Test in Europe : Munich, Germany, 10-14 March 2008

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1575 p.;)

Collana

ACM Conferences

Disciplina

621.381

Soggetti

Electronic systems - Design and construction

Electronic circuit design - Data processing

Computer-aided design - Automation

Electronic industries

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299771903321

Autore

Tewari Ashish

Titolo

Aeroservoelasticity : Modeling and Control / / by Ashish Tewari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

1-4939-2368-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Control Engineering, , 2373-7719

Disciplina

629.1323

Soggetti

Mathematical models

Aerospace engineering

Astronautics

System theory

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Automatic control

Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics

Systems Theory, Control

Mathematical and Computational Engineering

Control and Systems Theory

Applications of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aeroservoelasticity -- Structural Modeling -- Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling -- Finite-State Aeroelastic Modeling -- Linear Aeroelastic Control -- Nonlinear Aeroservoelastic Applications -- Appendices -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph presents the state of the art in aeroservoelastic (ASE) modeling and analysis and develops a systematic theoretical and computational framework for use by researchers and practicing engineers. It is the first book to focus on the mathematical modeling of structural dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, and control systems to evolve a generic procedure to be applied for ASE synthesis. Existing robust, nonlinear, and adaptive control methodology is applied and



extended to some interesting ASE problems, such as transonic flutter and buffet, post-stall buffet and maneuvers, and flapping flexible wing. The author derives a general aeroservoelastic plant via the finite-element structural dynamic model, unsteady aerodynamic models for various regimes in the frequency domain, and the associated state-space model by rational function approximations. For more advanced models, the full-potential, Euler, and Navier-Stokes methods for treating transonic and separated flows are also briefly addressed. Essential ASE controller design and analysis techniques are introduced to the reader, and an introduction to robust control-law design methods of LQG/LTR and H2/H∞ synthesis is followed by a brief coverage of nonlinear control techniques of describing functions and Lyapunov functions. Practical and realistic aeroservoelastic application examples derived from actual experiments are included throughout. Aeroservoelasiticity fills an important gap in the aerospace engineering literature and will be a valuable guide for graduate students and advanced researchers in aerospace engineering, as well as professional engineers, technicians, and test pilots in the aircraft industry and laboratories.  .