1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459069803321

Autore

Riskin Jessica

Titolo

Science in the age of sensibility [[electronic resource] ] : the sentimental empiricists of the French enlightment / / Jessica Riskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-93288-8

9786612932885

0-226-72085-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Classificazione

TB 2360

Disciplina

509.44/09/033

Soggetti

Science - France - History - 18th century

Enlightenment - France

Sensitivity (Personality trait)

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 (p. [289]-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Introduction: Sensibility and Enlightenment Science -- Chapter Two. The Blind and the Mathematically Inclined -- Chapter Three. Poor Richard's Leyden Jar -- Chapter Four. From Electricity to Economy -- Chapter Five. The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod -- Chapter Six. The Mesmerism Investigation and the Crisis of Sensibilist Science -- Chapter Seven. Languages of Science and Revolution -- Chapter Eight. Conclusion: The Legacy of the Sentimental Empiricists -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics,



ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over Antoine Lavoisier's new chemical names to the founding of France's modern system of civic education. Recasting the Age of Reason by stressing its conjunction with the Age of Sensibility, Riskin offers an entirely new perspective on the development of modern science and the history of the Enlightenment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822032303321

Autore

Hrushovski Ehud

Titolo

Non-archimedean tame topology and stably dominated types / / Ehud Hrushovski, François Loeser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Princeton University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4008-8122-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; Number 192

Classificazione

SI 830

Disciplina

512.4

Soggetti

Tame algebras

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

Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. The space v̂ of stably dominated types -- 4. Definable compactness -- 5. A closer look at the stable completion -- 6. Γ-internal spaces -- 7. Curves -- 8. Strongly stably dominated points -- 9. Specializations and ACV2F -- 10. Continuity of homotopies -- 11. The main theorem -- 12. The smooth case -- 13. An equivalence of categories -- 14. Applications to the topology of Berkovich spaces -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of notations

Sommario/riassunto

Over the field of real numbers, analytic geometry has long been in deep interaction with algebraic geometry, bringing the latter subject many of its topological insights. In recent decades, model theory has joined this work through the theory of o-minimality, providing finiteness and uniformity statements and new structural tools. For non-archimedean



fields, such as the p-adics, the Berkovich analytification provides a connected topology with many thoroughgoing analogies to the real topology on the set of complex points, and it has become an important tool in algebraic dynamics and many other areas of geometry. This book lays down model-theoretic foundations for non-archimedean geometry. The methods combine o-minimality and stability theory. Definable types play a central role, serving first to define the notion of a point and then properties such as definable compactness. Beyond the foundations, the main theorem constructs a deformation retraction from the full non-archimedean space of an algebraic variety to a rational polytope. This generalizes previous results of V. Berkovich, who used resolution of singularities methods. No previous knowledge of non-archimedean geometry is assumed. Model-theoretic prerequisites are reviewed in the first sections.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996215631903316

Titolo

Acta geologica Hispanica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Barcelona, Spain], : Instituto Nacional de Geología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1966-2002

ISSN

2173-6537

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Geology

Paleontology

Geology - Spain

Geologie

Geowissenschaften

Zeitschrift

Zeitschrift

Periodicals.

Spain

Spanien

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



Note generali

Año 7 includes a Número bibliográfico entitled: Bibliografía geológica española, pub. in 1970.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910563028303321

Autore

Müller Bertram

Titolo

Absurde literatur in Russland : Entstehung und Entwicklung / / Bertram Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Munich, Germany, : Verlag Otto Sagner, 1978

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik ; ; 19

Soggetti

Literature & literary studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Diese Arbeit ist die erste monographische Darstellung der russischen absurden Literatur. Der Begriff des Absurden wird dabei philosophisch verstanden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Werke der Leningrader Schriftsteller Daniil Charms und Aleksandr Vvedenskij - beide waren Mitglieder der Künstergruppe "Obériu" - und Werke des Moskauer Schriftstellers Vladimir Kazakov. Die theoretische Basis der Arbeit bilden Untersuchungskriterien, die von der westlichen absurden Literatur, insbesondere von Samuel Becketts Drama "Warten auf Godot", abstrahiert sind.