Emergence and Expansion of Preclassical Mechanics / / edited by Rivka Feldhay, Jürgen Renn, Matthias Schemmel, Matteo Valleriani |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
Disciplina | 531.09 |
Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
Soggetto topico |
History
Epistemology Philosophy Physics History of Science Philosophy of Technology History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
ISBN | 3-319-90345-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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The globalization of knowledge in history : based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop / / ed. by Jürgen Renn |
Autore | Jürgen Renn (ed.) |
Edizione | [1. publ.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, : Ed. Open Access, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 854 S. ) : Ill., Kt |
Collana | Max Planck research library for the history and development of knowledge : Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Globalisierung
Wissen |
Soggetto non controllato |
epistemology
globalization science MPRL global history Edition Open Access interdisciplinary research history of science knowledge |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996320834503316 |
Jürgen Renn (ed.) | ||
Berlin, : Ed. Open Access, 2012 | ||
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The globalization of knowledge in history : based on the 97th Dahlem Workshop / / ed. by Jürgen Renn |
Autore | Jürgen Renn (ed.) |
Edizione | [1. publ.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, : Ed. Open Access, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 854 S. ) : Ill., Kt |
Collana | Max Planck research library for the history and development of knowledge : Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Globalisierung
Wissen |
Soggetto non controllato |
epistemology
globalization science MPRL global history Edition Open Access interdisciplinary research history of science knowledge |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910133955103321 |
Jürgen Renn (ed.) | ||
Berlin, : Ed. Open Access, 2012 | ||
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Herausforderung Energie ausgewählte Vorträge der 126. Versammlung der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e.V |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : epubli GmbH, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 207 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Business & Economics
Industries |
ISBN | 3-8442-0500-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910134009603321 |
[Place of publication not identified], : epubli GmbH, 2011 | ||
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The History of Physics in Cuba [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Angelo Baracca, Jürgen Renn, Helge Wendt |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (453 p.) |
Disciplina | 530.09 |
Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Physics
History Regional economics Spatial economics Culture—Study and teaching History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics History of Science Regional/Spatial Science Regional and Cultural Studies |
ISBN | 94-017-8041-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1 A Short Introduction to this Volume; Angelo Baracca, Jürgen Renn, and Helge Wendt -- 2 The Cuban “Exception”: The Development of an Advanced Scientific System in an Underdeveloped Country; Angelo Baracca -- 3 Cuba: Short Critical Bibliographic Guide; Duccio Basosi -- Part I Historical Surveys -- 4 The Teaching of Physics in Cuba from Colonial Times to 1959; José Altshuler and Angelo Baracca -- 5 Mathematics and Physics in Cuba Before 1959: A Personal Recollection; José Altshuler -- 6 A Comprehensive Study of the Development of Physics in Cuba from 1959; Angelo Baracca, Víctor Luis Fajer Avila, and Carlos Rodríguez Castellanos -- 7 Accomplishments in Cuban Physics (up to 1995); Carlos R. Handy and Carlos Trallero-Giner -- 8 Physics at the University of Oriente; Luis M. Méndez Pérez and Carlos A. Cabal Mirabal -- 9 The Training of Physics Teachers in Cuba: A Historical Approach; Diego de Jesús Alamino Ortega -- 10 Can Universities Develop Advanced Technology and Solve Social Problems?; Isarelis Pérez Ones and Jorge Núñes Jover.-Part II Reflections from the Inside -- 11 The Rise and Development of Physics in Cuba: An Interview with Hugo Pérez Rojas in May 2009; Angelo Baracca -- 12 An Interview with Professor Melquíades de Dios Leyva, December 2008; Olimpia Arias de Fuentes -- 13 Experimental Semiconductor Physics: The Will to Contribute to the Country’s Economic Development; Elena Vigil Santos -- 14 Cuban Techno-physical Experiments in Space; José Altshuler, Ocatvio Calzadilla Amaya, Federico Falcon, Juan E. Fuentes, Jorge Lodos, and Elena Vigil Santos -- 15 Superconductivity in Cuba: Reaching the Frontline; Oscar Arés Muzio and Ernesto Altshuler -- 16 The Physics of Complex Systems in Cuba; Oscar Sotolongo-Costa -- 17 Magnetic Resonance Project 35-26-7: A Cuban Case of Engineering Physics and Biophysics; Carlos A. Cabal Mirabal -- 18 Nanotechnologies in Cuba: Popularization and Training; Carlos Rodríguez Castellanos -- 19 Physics Studies at the University of Havana; Osvaldo de Melo Pereira and María Sánchez Colina -- 20 Physics and Women: A Challenge Being Successfully Met in Cuba; Olimpia Arias de Fuentes -- Part III Reflections from the Outside -- 21 The Beginning of Semiconductor Research in Cuba; Theodore Veltfort -- 22 Andrea Levialdi in Memoriam; Dina Waisman -- 23 The Andrea Levialdi Fellowship; Roberto Fieschi -- 24 A Witness to French-Cuban Cooperation in Physics in the 1970s; Jacqueline Cernogora -- 25 My Collaboration with Cuban Physicists; Fabrizio Leccabue -- 26 Scientific Cooperation Between the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s; Helge Wendt -- 27 A Beautiful Story; Federico García-Moliner -- 28 The Current State of Physics in Cuba: A Personal Perspective; Marcelo Alonso -- 29 Engaging Cuban Physicists Through the APS/CPS Partnership; Irving A. Lerch -- 30 A Perspective on Physics in Cuba; Carlos R. Handy -- 31 Cuban/US Research Interactions Since 1995; Maria C. Tamargo -- 32 Viva La Ciencia: Cuba’s Creative Scientists Aim to Make Knowledge Their Country’s Sugar Substitute; Rosalind Reid and Brian Hayes -- Part IV Scientific Communication and Its Conditions -- 33 Physics in Cuba from the Perspective of Bibliometrics; Werner Marx and Manuel Cardona -- 34 Contemporary Cuban Physics Through Scientific Publications: An Insider’s View; Ernesto Altshuler. |
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One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bretislav Friedrich, Dieter Hoffmann, Jürgen Renn, Florian Schmaltz, Martin Wolf |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 408 p. 43 illus., 11 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 355 |
Soggetto topico |
Military history
Politics and war Chemistry—History Research—Moral and ethical aspects International humanitarian law System safety History of Military Military and Defence Studies History of Chemistry Research Ethics International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict Security Science and Technology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 3-319-51664-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Research on and Deployment of Chemical Weapons in World War I -- 2 The Scientist as Expert: Fritz Haber and German Chemical Warfare During the First World War and Beyond -- Abstract -- References -- 3 From Berlin-Dahlem to the Fronts of World War I: The Role of Fritz Haber and His Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in German Chemical Warfare -- Abstract -- 1 The Run-up to Ypres -- 2 Ypres, 22 April, 1915, 1700 GMT -- 3 The Indispensable Fritz Haber -- 4 Haber's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Under Military Command -- 5 Haber's Views on Chemical Warfare -- 6 The Legacy of Ypres -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Additional Open Access Information -- 4 Clara Immerwahr: A Life in the Shadow of Fritz Haber -- Abstract -- 1 Prolog -- 2 Clara Immerwahr's Background -- 3 The Scientific Work of Clara Immerwahr -- 4 Clara's Husband: Fritz Haber -- 5 Clara Haber's Suicide -- 6 The "Myth of Clara Immerwahr" -- 7 Epilog -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Addition to Open Access Information -- 5 France's Political and Military Reaction in the Aftermath of the First German Chemical Offensive in April 1915: The Road to Retaliation in Kind -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Retaliation in Kind: A Purely Military Decision -- 3 Between Eagerness and Constraints: Organizing the Chemical Response -- 4 Chemical War: Scientific War, Industrial War -- 5 Retaliation in Kind: Towards Total War -- References -- 6 Preparing for Poison Warfare: The Ethics and Politics of Britain's Chemical Weapons Program, 1915-1945 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ypres 1915 -- 3 Porton Down -- 4 Servants of the Realm -- 5 Crisis of Legitimacy -- 6 Collaboration -- 7 The Geneva Protocol -- 8 Foreboding -- 9 Ethical Relativism -- References.
7 Challenging the Laws of War by Technology, Blazing Nationalism and Militarism: Debating Chemical Warfare Before and After Ypres, 1899-1925 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: Chemical Weapons as the Subject of Juridification, Politicization, and Circumvention of Law -- 2 Codifying War Technologies in International Law Around 1900 -- 2.1 Restrictions on the Means and Methods of Warfare: The Regulations in International Law of 1868, 1899, and 1907 -- 2.1.1 The Principle of Humanity: The Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 -- 2.1.2 The Impotent Model: The Brussels Declaration on Land Warfare of 1874 -- 2.1.3 The First Poison Prohibition in International Treaty Law: The Declaration on the Use of Projectiles with Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases and the Hague Convention on Land Warfare of 1899 -- 2.2 No Notion of What Lay Ahead: The Intense Legal Discourse on the Hague Convention and Uncontroversial Interpretations of the Prohibition of Poison Prior to 1915 -- 3 Militarization and Circumvention of Law: Debates on International Law During the Continental War with Gas, 1915-1918 -- 3.1 International Law: Alive, but not Kicking -- 3.1.1 Scholarly Publications on International Law During World War I -- 3.1.2 Unclear Motives for and Few Scruples About the Use of Poison: Ex Post Justifications -- 3.1.3 Was the German Employment of Poison Gas a Symptom of General Disdain for International Law? -- 3.2 The Law Comes Later: The Weak Normative Discourse on Gas Warfare After the German Attack -- 3.2.1 The Lack of Protest: Political Voices and Official Reports -- 3.2.2 The Daily Press: Restraint, Disinformation, and Loud Silence -- 3.3 Possible Interpretations: Raison de Guerre as Its Own Form of Normativity? -- 3.3.1 Older Traditions of Disregard for International Law -- 3.3.2 Normative Plurality and Renouncing International Law: The Nature of the Laws of War. 3.3.3 Cruel, Unmanly, and Unchivalrous: The Military's Aversion to the Use of Poison -- 4 The Continuing Politicization of International Law: The Legal Assessment of War Crimes, 1918-1925 -- 4.1 Crime and Argument: The Intense Discourse After the End of World War I -- 4.2 Self-justifications: The Nationalist Polarization of International Law -- 4.3 Politicized Scholarship: No Mediation Possible -- 4.4 Reforms as Affirmation of the Prohibition of Poison in International Law -- 4.4.1 Asymmetric New Paths: The Prohibitions of the Production and Possession of Weapons in the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 -- 4.4.2 Pacifist Efforts: Initiatives by the League of Nations -- 4.4.3 An Expression of the General Opinion of the Civilized World: The Washington Treaty of 1922 -- 4.4.4 Reassuring One's Principles: The Geneva Protocol on Poison Gas of 1925 -- 5 Summary: Expectations Regarding International Law -- References -- 8 Military-Industrial Interactions in the Development of Chemical Warfare, 1914-1918: Comparing National Cases Within the Technological System of the Great War -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Western Front as a Technological Meta-System -- 3 Chemical Weapons as an Illustrative Case -- 4 Industrial Mobilization for Chemical Warfare: The Experimental Phase, 1914-15 -- 5 Scaling up, Innovation and Integration, 1915-17 -- 6 Culmination of the Chemical War, 1917-1918 -- 7 Concluding Reflections -- References -- Contexts and Consequences of Chemical Weapons -- 9 The Gas War, 1915-1918: If not a War Winner, Hardly a Failure -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Debate -- 3 Gas: Not a War Winner -- 4 The Challenge of Chemical Warfare -- 5 Effectiveness of the Gas War -- References -- 10 "Gas, Gas, Gaas!" The Poison Gas War in the Literature and Visual Arts of Interwar Europe -- Abstract -- Part I -- Part II -- References. 11 The Genie and the Bottle: Reflections on the Fate of the Geneva Protocol in the United States, 1918-1928 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Science and the Great War -- 3 The Coming of Geneva -- 4 A Protocol Post-mortem -- 5 Summing up the Senate -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 12 The Soldier's Body in Gas Warfare: Trauma, Illness, Rentennot, 1915-1933 -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Perceptions in the Field -- 3 Gas and Psyche -- 4 Weimar to the Nazi Period-the Need of the Traumatized -- 5 Summary -- References -- 13 Chemical Weapons Research on Soldiers and Concentration Camp Inmates in Nazi Germany -- Abstract -- 1 Organizational Structures of Chemical Warfare Research in Germany -- 2 Chemical Weapons Research on Humans in Military and Academic Institutions -- 3 Experiments in Concentration Camps -- 3.1 Sachsenhausen -- 3.2 Natzweiler -- 3.2.1 The Sulphur Mustard Experiments of August Hirt -- 3.2.2 The Phosgene Experiments of Otto Bickenbach -- 3.2.3 New Series of Phosgene Experiments in June and August 1944 -- 3.3 Neuengamme -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- 14 No Retaliation in Kind: Japanese Chemical Warfare Policy in World War II -- Abstract -- References -- 15 The 1925 Geneva Protocol: China's CBW Charges Against Japan at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 World War II and the Post-war IMTFE -- 3 Retrieving CBW Evidence from China, 1946 -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Dual Use, Storage and Disposal of Chemical Weapons Today -- 16 The Reconstruction of Production and Storage Sites for Chemical Warfare Agents and Weapons from Both World Wars in the Context of Assessing Former Munitions Sites -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ammendorf Factory of Orgacid GmbH -- 3 The History of Falkenhagen Factory of Monturon GmbH, Development, the Structure of the Buildings, and Production. 4 Production at the Falkenhagen Factory -- 4.1 Brief Description of the Facilities at the Factory -- 5 The Development of N-Stoff Production -- 5.1 The Buildings of the N-Stoff Plant at the "Seewerk" Falkenhagen -- 6 The Development of the Nerve Gases Tabun and Sarin -- 7 The Manufacturing Processes for Sarin -- 8 Vereinigte Flussspatgruben GmbH in Stulln -- 9 The Dyhernfurth Factory of Anorgana GmbH -- 10 The Filling and Storage of Chemical Weapons in the Munitions Facilities of the Army and Air Force -- 11 The Chemical Weapons Complex in Munster -- 12 Other Munitions Sites with Filling Plants for Chemical Weapons -- 13 Dismantling Work After the First World War -- 14 Summary and Prospects -- References and Source Materials -- 17 From Charles and Francis Darwin to Richard Nixon: The Origin and Termination of Anti-plant Chemical Warfare in Vietnam -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 18 The Indelible Smell of Apples: Poison Gas Survivors in Halabja, Kurdistan-Iraq, and Their Struggle for Recognition -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: The Indelible Smell of Apples -- 2 Background -- 3 The Anfal Campaign and the Poison Gas Attack Against Halabja in 1988 -- 4 The Situation of Survivors of the Poison Gas Attacks -- 4.1 Haunting Memories, Enduring Grief -- 4.2 Survivors' Life Conditions Between 1988 and 2003 -- 4.3 Changes After 2003 -- 5 New Threats, New Fear, and Joint Initiatives of Poison Gas Survivors -- References -- Films -- 19 The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria: Implications and Consequences -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Reports of Chemical Weapons Use in the Syrian Civil War -- 3 The Secretary-General's Investigation -- 4 The Elimination of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Program -- 5 Chemical Weapons Destruction at Sea -- 6 New Incidents of Chemical Weapons Uses -- 7 Attribution and Accountability -- 8 Conclusions -- References. 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Relocating the History of Science : Essays in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu / / edited by Theodore Arabatzis, Jürgen Renn, Ana Simões |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 320.014 |
Collana | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
Soggetto topico |
History
Philosophy and science History of Science Philosophy of Science |
ISBN |
3-319-14553-3
3-319-14552-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | PART I: HISTORY OF MODERN PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- Chapter 1: Louis Paul Cailletet, the Liquefaction of Oxygen and the Emergence of an ‘In-between Discipline’: Low-temperature Research; Faidra Papanelopoulou -- Chapter 2: Lindemann and Einstein: The Oxford Connexion; Robert Fox -- Chapter 3: Einstein and Hilbert; John Stachel -- Chapter 4: Quantum Chemistry and the Quantum Revolution; Sylvan Schweber and Gal BenPorat -- PART II: STEP MATTERS -- Chapter 5: Centres and Peripheries Revisited: STEP and the Mainstream Historiography of Science; Agusti Nieto-Galan -- Chapter 6: At the Center and the Periphery: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Botanizes in Crete; Lorraine Daston -- Chapter 7: Boscovich in Britain; John Heilbron -- Chapter 8: Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment: In Search of a European Identity; Manolis Patiniotis -- Chapter 9: The Non-introduction of Low-temperature Physics in Spain: Julio Palacios and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes; Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron -- Chapter 10: Beyond Borders in the History of Science Education; Jose Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez -- PART III: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- Chapter 11: Probable Reasoning and Its Novelties; Ian Hacking -- Chapter 12: Reductionism and the Relation between Chemistry and Physics; Hasok Chang -- Chapter 13: The Internal-External Sistinction Sheds Light on the History of the Twentieth-century Philosophy of Science; Gürol Irzik -- Chapter 14: Concepts out of Theoretical Contexts; Theodore Arabatzis and Nancy Nersessian -- PART IV: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MUSINGS -- Chapter 15: Globalization of Knowledge in History and its Normative Challenges; Jürgen Renn -- Chapter 16: The Global and the Local in the Study of the Humanities; Rivka Feldhay -- Chapter 17: On Scientific Biography and Biographies of Scientists; Helge Kragh -- Chapter 18: Biography and the History of Science; Mary Jo Nye -- Chapter 19: Different Undertakings, Common Practices: Some Directions for the History of Science; Ana Simões -- PART V: BEYOND HISTORY OF SCIENCE: MATHEMATICS, TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES -- Chapter 20: The Meaning of Hypostasis in Diophantus’ Arithmetica; Jean Christianidis -- Chapter 21: On the Hazardousness of the Concept ‘Technology’: Notes on a Conversation between the History of Science and the History of Technology; Aristotle Tympas -- Chapter 22: Wireless at the Bar: Experts, Circuits and Marconi’s Inventions in Patent Disputes in Early Twentieth-century Britain; Efstathios Arapostathis -- Chapter 23: Curating the European University; Hans Jörg Rheinberger -- Chapter 24: Can Science Make Peace with the Environment? Science, Power, Exploitation; Angelo Baracca. |
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