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A century of nature [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world / / edited by Laura Garwin & Tim Lincoln ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg
| A century of nature [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world / / edited by Laura Garwin & Tim Lincoln ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GarwinLaura
LincolnTim |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Science - Social aspects - History Discoveries in science Science and civilization |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-53802-0
9786612538025 0-226-28416-6 |
| Classificazione | TB 2385 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A Century of Nature -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology of twentieth-century science -- 1925 -- ONE. Raymond Dart and our African origins -- 1925. Australopithecus africanus: the man-ape of South Africa -- 1927 -- TWO. Electrons make waves -- 1927. The scattering of electrons by a single crystal of nickel -- 1932 -- THREE. The atom completed -- 1932. Possible existence of a neutron -- 1938 -- FOUR. Superfluidity: a new state of matter -- 1938. Viscosity of liquid helium below the λ-point -- 1939 -- FIVE. From nuclear physics to nuclear weapons -- 1939. Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction -- 1953 -- SIX. The double helix -- 1953. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid -- 1958 -- SEVEN. Dawn of structural biology -- 1958. A three-dimensional model of the myoglobin molecule obtained by X-ray analysis -- 1960 -- EIGHT. The first laser -- 1960. Stimulated optical radiation in ruby -- 1963 -- NINE. The quasar enigma -- 1963. 3C 273: a star-like object with large red-shift -- 1963 -- TEN. Seafloor magnetism and drifting continents -- 1963. Magnetic anomalies over oceanic ridges -- 1968 -- ELEVEN. Stellar timekeepers -- 1968. Observation of a rapidly pulsating radio source -- 1970 -- TWELVE. Viruses reverse the genetic flow -- 1970. RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of RNA tumour viruses -- 1973 -- THIRTEEN. Images of body and brain -- 1973. Image formation by induced local interactions: examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance -- 1974 -- FOURTEEN. Journey to the T cell -- 1974. Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system -- 1976 -- FIFTEEN. Molecular switches for "animal electricity" -- 1976. Single-channel currents recorded from membrane of denervated frog muscle fibres -- 1977 -- SIXTEEN DNA. sequencing: the silent revolution -- 1977. Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage ΦX174 DNA -- 1980 -- SEVENTEEN. The blueprint of animals revealed -- 1980. Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophila -- 1985 -- EIGHTEEN. A hole in Earth's shield -- 1985. Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction -- 1985 -- NINETEEN. Carbon cages and carbon tubes -- 1985. C60: buckminsterfullerene -- 1995 -- TWENTY. Seeking other solar systems -- 1995. A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star -- 1997 -- TWENTY-ONE. Dolly! -- 1997. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458914903321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A century of nature [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world / / edited by Laura Garwin & Tim Lincoln ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg
| A century of nature [[electronic resource] ] : twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world / / edited by Laura Garwin & Tim Lincoln ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GarwinLaura
LincolnTim |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Science - Social aspects - History Discoveries in science Science and civilization |
| Soggetto non controllato | natural world, outdoors, discovery, science, scientific, scientist, life changing, international, global, worldwide, history, historical, breakthrough, magazine, journalism, journalist, publishing, publication, essay collection, essays, nobel prize, context, culture, cultural, explained, easy to understand, africa, origins, electron, wave, atom, matter, nuclear, laser, t cell, dna |
| ISBN |
1-282-53802-0
9786612538025 0-226-28416-6 |
| Classificazione | TB 2385 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A Century of Nature -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology of twentieth-century science -- 1925 -- ONE. Raymond Dart and our African origins -- 1925. Australopithecus africanus: the man-ape of South Africa -- 1927 -- TWO. Electrons make waves -- 1927. The scattering of electrons by a single crystal of nickel -- 1932 -- THREE. The atom completed -- 1932. Possible existence of a neutron -- 1938 -- FOUR. Superfluidity: a new state of matter -- 1938. Viscosity of liquid helium below the λ-point -- 1939 -- FIVE. From nuclear physics to nuclear weapons -- 1939. Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction -- 1953 -- SIX. The double helix -- 1953. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid -- 1958 -- SEVEN. Dawn of structural biology -- 1958. A three-dimensional model of the myoglobin molecule obtained by X-ray analysis -- 1960 -- EIGHT. The first laser -- 1960. Stimulated optical radiation in ruby -- 1963 -- NINE. The quasar enigma -- 1963. 3C 273: a star-like object with large red-shift -- 1963 -- TEN. Seafloor magnetism and drifting continents -- 1963. Magnetic anomalies over oceanic ridges -- 1968 -- ELEVEN. Stellar timekeepers -- 1968. Observation of a rapidly pulsating radio source -- 1970 -- TWELVE. Viruses reverse the genetic flow -- 1970. RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of RNA tumour viruses -- 1973 -- THIRTEEN. Images of body and brain -- 1973. Image formation by induced local interactions: examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance -- 1974 -- FOURTEEN. Journey to the T cell -- 1974. Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system -- 1976 -- FIFTEEN. Molecular switches for "animal electricity" -- 1976. Single-channel currents recorded from membrane of denervated frog muscle fibres -- 1977 -- SIXTEEN DNA. sequencing: the silent revolution -- 1977. Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage ΦX174 DNA -- 1980 -- SEVENTEEN. The blueprint of animals revealed -- 1980. Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophila -- 1985 -- EIGHTEEN. A hole in Earth's shield -- 1985. Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction -- 1985 -- NINETEEN. Carbon cages and carbon tubes -- 1985. C60: buckminsterfullerene -- 1995 -- TWENTY. Seeking other solar systems -- 1995. A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star -- 1997 -- TWENTY-ONE. Dolly! -- 1997. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792325603321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A century of nature : twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world / / edited by Laura Garwin & Tim Lincoln ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg
| A century of nature : twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world / / edited by Laura Garwin & Tim Lincoln ; with a foreword by Steven Weinberg |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina | 500 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GarwinLaura
LincolnTim |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Science - Social aspects - History Discoveries in science Science and civilization |
| Soggetto non controllato | natural world, outdoors, discovery, science, scientific, scientist, life changing, international, global, worldwide, history, historical, breakthrough, magazine, journalism, journalist, publishing, publication, essay collection, essays, nobel prize, context, culture, cultural, explained, easy to understand, africa, origins, electron, wave, atom, matter, nuclear, laser, t cell, dna |
| ISBN |
1-282-53802-0
9786612538025 0-226-28416-6 |
| Classificazione | TB 2385 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | A Century of Nature -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology of twentieth-century science -- 1925 -- ONE. Raymond Dart and our African origins -- 1925. Australopithecus africanus: the man-ape of South Africa -- 1927 -- TWO. Electrons make waves -- 1927. The scattering of electrons by a single crystal of nickel -- 1932 -- THREE. The atom completed -- 1932. Possible existence of a neutron -- 1938 -- FOUR. Superfluidity: a new state of matter -- 1938. Viscosity of liquid helium below the λ-point -- 1939 -- FIVE. From nuclear physics to nuclear weapons -- 1939. Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction -- 1953 -- SIX. The double helix -- 1953. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid -- 1958 -- SEVEN. Dawn of structural biology -- 1958. A three-dimensional model of the myoglobin molecule obtained by X-ray analysis -- 1960 -- EIGHT. The first laser -- 1960. Stimulated optical radiation in ruby -- 1963 -- NINE. The quasar enigma -- 1963. 3C 273: a star-like object with large red-shift -- 1963 -- TEN. Seafloor magnetism and drifting continents -- 1963. Magnetic anomalies over oceanic ridges -- 1968 -- ELEVEN. Stellar timekeepers -- 1968. Observation of a rapidly pulsating radio source -- 1970 -- TWELVE. Viruses reverse the genetic flow -- 1970. RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of RNA tumour viruses -- 1973 -- THIRTEEN. Images of body and brain -- 1973. Image formation by induced local interactions: examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance -- 1974 -- FOURTEEN. Journey to the T cell -- 1974. Restriction of in vitro T cell-mediated cytotoxicity in lymphocytic choriomeningitis within a syngeneic or semiallogeneic system -- 1976 -- FIFTEEN. Molecular switches for "animal electricity" -- 1976. Single-channel currents recorded from membrane of denervated frog muscle fibres -- 1977 -- SIXTEEN DNA. sequencing: the silent revolution -- 1977. Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage ΦX174 DNA -- 1980 -- SEVENTEEN. The blueprint of animals revealed -- 1980. Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophila -- 1985 -- EIGHTEEN. A hole in Earth's shield -- 1985. Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction -- 1985 -- NINETEEN. Carbon cages and carbon tubes -- 1985. C60: buckminsterfullerene -- 1995 -- TWENTY. Seeking other solar systems -- 1995. A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star -- 1997 -- TWENTY-ONE. Dolly! -- 1997. Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823691703321 |
| Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst
| Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HarrisBernard <1961->
ErnstWaltraud <1955-> |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Medicine - History
Colonization - Health aspects - History Imperialism - Health aspects - History Science - Social aspects - History Social medicine - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-67645-X
1-280-33204-2 9786610332045 0-203-02542-3 0-203-17132-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine; Western medicine and racial constitutions: surgeon John Atkins' theory of polygenism and sleepy distemper in the 1730's; From the land of the Bible to the Caucasus and beyond: the shifting ideas of the geographical origin of humankind; Colonial policies, racial politics and the development of psychiatric institutions in early nineteenth-century British India; Racial categories and psychiatry in Africa: the asylum on Robben Island in the nineteenth century
'An ancient race outworn': malaria and race in colonial India, 1860 1930 Tuberculosis and race in Britain and its empire, 1900 50; Changing depictions of disease: race, representation and the history of 'mongolism'; Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; A virulent strain: German bacteriology as scientific racism, 1890 1920; 'Savage civilisation': race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898 1939; 'New men, strange faces, other minds': Arthur Keith, race and the Piltdown affair (1912 53); Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455249203321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst
| Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HarrisBernard <1961->
ErnstWaltraud <1955-> |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Medicine - History
Colonization - Health aspects - History Imperialism - Health aspects - History Science - Social aspects - History Social medicine - History |
| ISBN |
1-134-67644-1
1-134-67645-X 1-280-33204-2 9786610332045 0-203-02542-3 0-203-17132-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine; Western medicine and racial constitutions: surgeon John Atkins' theory of polygenism and sleepy distemper in the 1730's; From the land of the Bible to the Caucasus and beyond: the shifting ideas of the geographical origin of humankind; Colonial policies, racial politics and the development of psychiatric institutions in early nineteenth-century British India; Racial categories and psychiatry in Africa: the asylum on Robben Island in the nineteenth century
'An ancient race outworn': malaria and race in colonial India, 1860 1930 Tuberculosis and race in Britain and its empire, 1900 50; Changing depictions of disease: race, representation and the history of 'mongolism'; Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; A virulent strain: German bacteriology as scientific racism, 1890 1920; 'Savage civilisation': race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898 1939; 'New men, strange faces, other minds': Arthur Keith, race and the Piltdown affair (1912 53); Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778882403321 |
| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst
| Race, science, and medicine, 1700-1960 / / edited by Bernard Harris and Waltraud Ernst |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 610/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HarrisBernard <1961->
ErnstWaltraud <1955-> |
| Collana | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Medicine - History
Colonization - Health aspects - History Imperialism - Health aspects - History Science - Social aspects - History Social medicine - History |
| ISBN |
1-134-67644-1
1-134-67645-X 1-280-33204-2 9786610332045 0-203-02542-3 0-203-17132-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: historical and contemporary perspectives on race, science and medicine; Western medicine and racial constitutions: surgeon John Atkins' theory of polygenism and sleepy distemper in the 1730's; From the land of the Bible to the Caucasus and beyond: the shifting ideas of the geographical origin of humankind; Colonial policies, racial politics and the development of psychiatric institutions in early nineteenth-century British India; Racial categories and psychiatry in Africa: the asylum on Robben Island in the nineteenth century
'An ancient race outworn': malaria and race in colonial India, 1860 1930 Tuberculosis and race in Britain and its empire, 1900 50; Changing depictions of disease: race, representation and the history of 'mongolism'; Pro-alienism, anti-alienism and the medical profession in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain; A virulent strain: German bacteriology as scientific racism, 1890 1920; 'Savage civilisation': race, culture and mind in Britain, 1898 1939; 'New men, strange faces, other minds': Arthur Keith, race and the Piltdown affair (1912 53); Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817065903321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / / Peter Dear
| Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / / Peter Dear |
| Autore | Dear Peter <1958-> |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 203 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History
Science - Social aspects - History Science and civilization - History Science - History - Europe Physical Sciences & Mathematics Sciences - General |
| ISBN | 0-691-14206-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Natural philosophy and instrumentality -- "What was worth knowing" in 1500 -- Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century -- The alchemist, the craftsman, and the scholar -- Mathematics challenges philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the mathematical practitioners -- Mechanism and corpuscles : Descartes builds a universe -- Extra-curricular activities: new homes for natural knowledge -- Experiment: how to learn things about nature in the seventeenth century -- Cartesians and Newtonians -- Conclusion: what was worth knowing by the eighteenth century? |
| Altri titoli varianti | Revolutionizing the Sciences |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248182403316 |
Dear Peter <1958->
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| Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Science as cultural practice . Volume 1 Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes / / edited by Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel ; contributors Lorraine Daston [and nine others]
| Science as cultural practice . Volume 1 Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes / / edited by Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel ; contributors Lorraine Daston [and nine others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany : , : Akademie Verlag, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/5 |
| Collana | Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - History
Science - Social aspects - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-05-008709-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Epple, Moritz / Zittel, Claus -- Part I: Before 1900 -- Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy / Wilson, Catherine -- Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity / Steinle, Friedrich -- The Humboldtian Gaze / Daston, Lorraine -- What's in a Line? / Norton Wise, Μ. -- Apollo's Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism / Dierig, Sven -- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 / Schaffer, Simon -- Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes -- The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences / Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg -- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering / Keller, Evelyn Fox -- What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS / Pestre, Dominique -- The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck's 'Comparative Epistemology' / Zittel, Claus -- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi / Nye, Mary Jo -- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices / Epple, Moritz -- List of contributors -- Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465233603321 |
| Berlin, Germany : , : Akademie Verlag, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science as cultural practice . Volume 1 Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes / / edited by Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel ; contributors Lorraine Daston [and nine others]
| Science as cultural practice . Volume 1 Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes / / edited by Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel ; contributors Lorraine Daston [and nine others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany : , : Akademie Verlag, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/5 |
| Collana | Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - History
Science - Social aspects - History |
| ISBN | 3-05-008709-9 |
| Classificazione | AK 18000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Epple, Moritz / Zittel, Claus -- Part I: Before 1900 -- Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy / Wilson, Catherine -- Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity / Steinle, Friedrich -- The Humboldtian Gaze / Daston, Lorraine -- What's in a Line? / Norton Wise, Μ. -- Apollo's Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism / Dierig, Sven -- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 / Schaffer, Simon -- Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes -- The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences / Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg -- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering / Keller, Evelyn Fox -- What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS / Pestre, Dominique -- The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck's 'Comparative Epistemology' / Zittel, Claus -- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi / Nye, Mary Jo -- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices / Epple, Moritz -- List of contributors -- Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792208503321 |
| Berlin, Germany : , : Akademie Verlag, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science as cultural practice . Volume 1 Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes / / edited by Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel ; contributors Lorraine Daston [and nine others]
| Science as cultural practice . Volume 1 Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes / / edited by Moritz Epple and Claus Zittel ; contributors Lorraine Daston [and nine others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany : , : Akademie Verlag, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/5 |
| Collana | Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy - History
Science - Social aspects - History |
| ISBN | 3-05-008709-9 |
| Classificazione | AK 18000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Epple, Moritz / Zittel, Claus -- Part I: Before 1900 -- Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural Philosophy / Wilson, Catherine -- Scientific Facts and Empirical Concepts: The Case of Electricity / Steinle, Friedrich -- The Humboldtian Gaze / Daston, Lorraine -- What's in a Line? / Norton Wise, Μ. -- Apollo's Tragedy: Laboratory Science between Classicism and Industrial Modernism / Dierig, Sven -- Exact sciences and colonialism: southern India in 1900 / Schaffer, Simon -- Part II: Science in the Age of Extremes -- The Art of Exploring the Unknown: Views on Contemporary Research in the Life Sciences / Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg -- Contenders for Life: Approaches from Physics, Biology, and Engineering / Keller, Evelyn Fox -- What about Participation, Governance and Politics? Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STS / Pestre, Dominique -- The Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck's 'Comparative Epistemology' / Zittel, Claus -- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi / Nye, Mary Jo -- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices / Epple, Moritz -- List of contributors -- Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820322603321 |
| Berlin, Germany : , : Akademie Verlag, , 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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