The Scientific Revolution

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates...

Description"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical cl...

Reducere. This is the publication of the influential Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of...

This book tells the story of how the "servile arts" turned into the "mechanical arts, " which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical appara...

The first textbook covering the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution. Providing students of all backgrounds with the...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific ...

Reducere. Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets...

DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

Reducere. Educate and empower yourself Dr. Hannah Sivak earned her PhD in Biological Sciences and has worked as a scientist for over 45 years. She brings all...

Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...

Publisher: North Atlantic Books, U.S.Author(s): Philip Ashley FanningNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 18Cover type...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Ancient cultures have been looking up at the star...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Scie...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionNanotechnology is a buzz word many of us have heard but are uncertain what it really means. This book works to dispel the myths and unra...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

How can companies survive and prosper in the new economic age of the 4th Industrial Revolution? This book collects a variety of cases and quality m...

The award-winning guide to everything we know about the Neanderthals, from their emergence to their extinction, now updated and expanded to feature...