![David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1898-1914]( "David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Physics 1898-1914")
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Majer, U. (Ed), Sauer, T. (Ed) (2021)
The first part of volume 4 documents Hilbert’s efforts in the period 1898-1910 to base all known physics (including thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and electrodynamics) on classical …
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![Reformed Polity and Church-State Relations in the Atlantic World, 1609-1690]( "Reformed Polity and Church-State Relations in the Atlantic World, 1609-1690")
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Scott Spurlock, R., Spurlock, R. (2020)
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![De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period]( "De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period")
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Valleriani, M. (Ed) (2020)
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how …
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![Some Forgotten Chemists]( "Some Forgotten Chemists")
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Halton, B. (2020)
This book comprises seventeen independent essays on little remembered chemists whose contributions have had significant impact on chemistry and society. Among these chemists, …
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![Non-Han Literature Along the Silk Road]( "Non-Han Literature Along the Silk Road")
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Li, X. (Ed) (2020)
This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents written in ancient languages such as Tocharian, Sogdian, Khotanese, and Old Uyghur. Its chief aims are to …
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![Geography in Britain after World War II]( "Geography in Britain after World War II")
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Martin, M. (Ed), Damodaran, V. (Ed), D'Souza, R. (Ed) (2019)
Contemporary anxieties about climate change have fueled a growing interest in how landscapes are formed and transformed across spans of time, from decades to millennia. While the …
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![Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages]( "Touching, Devotional Practices, and Visionary Experience in the Late Middle Ages")
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Carrillo-Rangel, D. (Ed), Nieto-Isabel, D. I. (Ed), Acosta-García, P. (Ed) (2019)
This book addresses the history of the senses in relation to affective piety and its role in devotional practices in the late Middle Ages, focusing on the sense of touch. It …
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![Wittgensteinian (adj.)]( "Wittgensteinian (adj.)")
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Wuppuluri, S. (Ed), da Costa, N. (Ed) (2019)
“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was …
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![Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure]( "Thomas Edison: Success and Innovation through Failure")
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Wills, I. (2019)
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of America's most successful inventor, Thomas Edison. It argues that …
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![On Art and Science]( "On Art and Science")
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Wuppuluri, S. (Ed), Wu, D. (Ed) (2019)
Einstein once remarked "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists …
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![Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities]( "Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities")
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Koslow, A. (2019)
The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and …
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![Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material]( "Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material")
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Kuuliala, J. (Ed), Peake, R. (Ed), Räisänen-Schröder, P. (Ed) (2019)
This book discusses the ways in which early modern hagiographic sources can be used to study lived religion and everyday life from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. For …
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![Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America]( "Making Sense of Health, Disease, and the Environment in Cross-Cultural History: The Arabic-Islamic World, China, Europe, and North America")
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Bretelle-Establet, F. (Ed), Gaille, M. (Ed), Katouzian-Safadi, M. (Ed) (2019)
This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural …
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![Pioneers of Color Science]( "Pioneers of Color Science")
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Shamey, R., Kuehni, R. G. (2019)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most prominent figures in the field and …
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![Nico Bloembergen]( "Nico Bloembergen")
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Herber, R. (2019)
This biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen. Born in 1920 in Dordrecht, Bloembergen studied physics in Utrecht, leaving …
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![Luna Cognita]( "Luna Cognita")
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Garfinkle, R. (2019)
This comprehensive, all-in-one handbook takes you on an incomparable journey of our closest celestial neighbor. Not since the golden age of 19th-century lunar guide books has one …
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![Evolving Theories on the Origin of the Moon]( "Evolving Theories on the Origin of the Moon")
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Cummings, W. D. (2019)
This book follows the development of research on the origin of the Moon from the late 18th century to the present. By gathering together the major texts, papers, and events of the …
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![Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains]( "Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains")
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Lynteris, C. (Ed) (2019)
This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases …
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![Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy]( "Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy")
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Hedley, D. (Ed), Leech, D. (Ed) (2019)
This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key …
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![Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society]( "Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society")
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Aspray, W. (Ed) (2019)
This is a volume of chapters on the historical study of information, computing, and society written by seven of the most senior, distinguished members of the History of Computing …
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