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The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance.The Islamic scientific tradition has been …
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood …
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this …
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.For much of the first …
Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music-from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres-were primarily studied as …
How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.In this book, Lino Camprubi argues that science and technology were …
Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth …
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics. In 1847, Herman …
Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits.The early modern genre of …
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.The Cold War period saw a dramatic …