Учеб. пособие. — 2-е изд., с изм. и доп. — М.: МГИУ, 2007. — 276 с. — ISBN 978-5-276-00970-4. Настоящее издание входит в серию учебных пособий по курсу «История науки и техники». В соответствии с учебным планом содержит сведения по истории становления человеческой цивилизации: об этапах развития техники и технологий, по истории современной промышленности. Первая часть пособия...
Учебное пособие. — 2-е изд-е, стереотип. — М.: МГИУ, 2004. — 302 с. Настоящее учебное пособие является второй частью книги, посвященной истории создания основных материалов и технологий. В ней рассматривается: одежда и обувь, металлургия, инструмент, станки, производство, приборы и измерения, строительство. Первая часть книги, посвященная разделам: камень и дерево;...
/Под ред. проф. В. К. Федюкина. - СПб.: Политехника, 2007. - 416 с. ISBN: 978-5-7325-0605-1 В учебнике изложена история развития техники и технологий от первобытного общества до конца XX в. Подробно рассмотрено развитие основных машиностроительных технологий в мире и в России со времен Древней Руси: ковка и штамповка, сварка, литье и обработка резанием и др. Учебник...
М.: Наука, 1962. - 772 с.
Часть первая. Техника докапиталистических способов производства. С. И. Шухардин.
Часть вторая. Техника в период победы и утверждения капитализма. А. А. Зворыкин, Н. И. Осьмова, С. Н. Шухардин.
Часть третья. Техника в период монополистического капитализма. А. А. Зворыкин, Н. И. Осьмова.
Часть четвертая. Техника после Великой Октябрьской...
/ Пер. с англ. Е. Канищевой и П. Гольдина. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008, —.
648 с., ил.
Работа американского историка Фрица Рингера (1934—2006) «Закат немецких мандаринов» посвящена эволюции академического сообщества Германии с 1890 по 1933 год. В этой, ставшей уже классической, книге автор демонстрирует, как свести воедино социальную историю «людей знания»,...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 496 с. На большом фактическом материале рассматривается история часов и проблемы измерения времени от древности до наших дней. В книге три части: «История часов Древнего мира и Средних веков», «Развитие классической колебательной хронометрии» и «История электрохронометрии, кварцевых и атомных часов». Эта работа — итог многолетних исследований автора. Она...
2-е изд., перевод с английского под научной редакцией Д.М. Носова. — М.: Издательский дом ГУ ВШЭ, 2008. — 392 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7598-0610-3. Книга британского историка науки Роджера Смита "The History of the Human Sciences" - результат двадцатилетнего опыта преподавания курсов по истории европейской мысли, истории научных представлений о человеческой природе, эволюционных...
Учебно-методическое пособие. - СПб.: СПбГУ ИТМО, 2006. - 143 с. В данном пособии для студентов старших курсов рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с развитием науки и техники от простых орудий труда до нанотехнологии. Цели учебного курса: сформировать целостное представление о развитии науки и техники как историко-культурном явлении; структурировать информационное поле о...
Пер. с англ. А. Маркова. — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2015. — 576 с.: ил. — (История науки). — ISBN: 9785444801444. В предлагаемом издании представлены две книги, авторы которых стояли у истоков формирования новой истории науки, основанной не столько на последовательном изложении научных идей, сколько на тщательном изучении исторических обстоятельств, способствовавших...
Учебное пособие. — Ростов н/Д: Феникс, 2001. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5-222-02136-х. Освещена история развития техники с момента ее зарождения до эпохи индустриализации в тесной связи с достижениями науки и основными процессами социально-экономической жизни. Приведены данные о научно-технических изобретениях и открытиях, выдающихся деятелях науки и техники. Предназначена для студентов...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 568 p. — ISBN: 9780262035774, 0262035774. Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass....
2-е изд. — М.: Наука, 1988. — 336 с. — ISBN: 5-02-003324-3. В книге публикуются исследования В. И. Вернадского по всеобщей истории науки, в частности его труд «Очерки по истории современного научного мировоззрения», статьи о роли Канта и Гёте в развитии естествознания, а также его статьи по общим проблемам истории науки и вопросам организации исследований в этой области....
Учебное пособие для студентов вузов. — К.: Аристей, 2003. — 568 с. — ISBN: 9668458001. В учебном пособии анализируется содержание инженерной деятельности, рассматриваются ее результаты и развитие техники в период от первобытного строя до настоящего времени. Пособие предназначено для студентов, изучающих дисциплину "История инженерной деятельности", а также всех, кто...
Учебное пособие. - Пенза: Изд-во Пенз. гос. ун-та, 2005. - 189 с. Пособие подготовлено на кафедре «Машины и технология литейного производства» и в Научно-исследовательском институте плавки литейных сплавов при ПензГУ. Предназначено для студентов всех форм обучения по специальности «Машины и технология литейного производства» и может быть полезно при выполнении творческих работ....
Учебное пособие по дисциплине «История техники». – Пенза, 2006. – 72 с.
В пособии рассматриваются широкий круг различных отраслей техники и огромный временной интервал, которые определяют насыщенность курса событиями и датами. В связи этим в работе освещаются те направления и отрасли техники, которые являлись наиболее важными и определяющими в рассматриваемую эпоху.
Пособие...
М.: Наука, 1973. — 600 с., ил. — (Классики науки). История знаний отражена в самой науке, и в словах творцов науки содержится ключ к пониманию ее развития. Эта книга — результат систематического отбора вступлений к трудам классиков естествознания. Предисловия потому привлекли наше внимание, что именно там, в начале монографии или мемуара, обращаясь к широкому кругу лиц, ученый...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1956. — 736 с.: ил. "Наука в истории общества" - фундаментальное исследование известного английского ученого и общественного деятеля Дж. Д. Бернала. В предлагаемой читателю новой работе предпринята попытка исследовать историю взаимоотношений между развитием науки и техники и развитием общества от зарождения науки до наших дней. Автором...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 488 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5383-8. Т. Дерри и Т. Уильямс представили блистательный рассказ о технологических достижениях человечества с древности до наших дней, уделив пристальное внимание влиянию технического прогресса на ход истории. Первая часть повествования включает историю технологий с древних времен до 1750 года. Рассказ начинается с общего...
/ Тарасова В.Н., Паткина А.В., Шилина Е.А. г. Санкт - Петербург: СПбГПУ, 372 с. Учебное пособие посвящено основным вехам развития научной мысли и технического прогресса в древнем мире, античный период, средневековье, эпохе промышленной революции, научно-технической революции периода монополитического капитализма XIX –XX вв. Закономерности научно-технических достижений XX в....
Под общей редакцией академика В. Ф. Миткевича. — Москва: Ленинград, Издательство академии наук СССР, 1936. — 462 с. Богаевский Б.Л. Техника первобытного коммунистического общества. Лурье И.М. Техника Древнего Египта. Шульц П.Н. Техника античного рабовладельческого общества. Скржинская Е.Ч. Техника эпохи Западноевропейского Средневековья. Цейтлин Е.А. Техника мануфактурного...
М.: МЦНМО, 2018. — 362 с. — ISBN 978-5-4439-3170-8. В книгу включено около 600 задач по истории науки от античности до XVII в., список основных событий истории науки и культуры этого периода, а также краткие обзоры развития науки в разные века у разных народов. Все задачи снабжены краткими схемами возможных решений. Книга адресована учителям, студентам и школьникам. Введение....
4-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: Наука, 1987. — 497 с. — (Наука. Мировоззрение. Жизнь). Собраны статьи и выступления академика П. Л. Капицы перед широкой аудиторией, содержащие простое и ясное изложение его экспериментальных исследований. В очерках о жизни и деятельности выдающихся ученых дан анализ их научного творчества. Ряд статей и выступлений посвящен вопросам организации...
Учебное пособие. — 3-е изд., изм. и доп. — М.: МГИУ, 2010. — 343 с. — ISBN: 978-5-2760- 1850- 8; ISBN: 978-5-2760-1848-5. Настоящее издание входит в серию учебных пособий по курсу «История науки и техники». Содержит сведения по истории становления человеческой цивилизации: об этапах развития техники и технологий, по истории современной промышленности. Вторая часть посвящена...
Суми: СумДПУ, 2013. – 346 с. У посібнику коротко викладена світова історія розвитку науки і техніки. Особлива увага звернена на виникнення знарядь праці, технічних засобів побуту та виробництва, основні технічні винаходи та наукові відкриття в історії людства. Здійснена класифікація природничих наук та наук про суспільство, визначені соціально-політичні, гуманітарні та...
Тамбов: Изд-во Тамб. гос. техн. ун-та, 2003. Приведены темы для подготовки рефератов и вопросы для обсуждения на семинарских занятиях, примеры дидактических тестов для рубежного контроля и список литературы по курсу "История науки и техники". Предназначены для студентов дневного и заочного отделений специальности 170600.
В первой части учебного пособия описана краткая история науки в целом. Пособие написано профессором, д.б.н. Колонцовым и профессором, д.б.н. Васильевым на основе курса лекций по дисциплине "Концепции современного естествознания", прочитанных в 1997-2004 годах в Московском государственном областном педагогическом институте и в Московской международной высшей школе бизнеса "МИРБИС".
Санкт-Петербург, 1880. — 359 с. Книга известного ученого физика и отважного воздухоплавателя Гастона Тисандье (1843-1899) (в 1875 поднимался на воздушном шаре, на высоту 8600 метров). Впервые книга "Мученики науки" вышла в свет в 1879 году. В ней рассказывается об ученых, отдавших все силы, знания, а порой и жизнь в борьбе за объективное научное знание. В книге упоминаются...
Oxford University Press, Inc., 2009. — 161 p. — (New Oxford World History). — ISBN 978-0195156485, 0195338219. "The history of humans and technology is a long one, going back millions of years to the use of stones as tools and to their fashioning into more efficient devices through skillful flaking. Ancient peoples discovered the use of fi re as a survival technology, only much...
Inner Traditions, 2007. — 288 p. Revised, full-color illustrated edition of the multi-award-winning, international bestseller that charts the unparalleled and astounding achievement of ancient China Brings to life one hundred Chinese firsts in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, technology, and warfare Based on the definitive work of...
СПб.: Изд-во Гос. Эрмитажа, 2014. — 472 с. — ISBN 978-5-93572-578-5. В монографии рассматриваются древние способы изготовления различных предметов из золота, серебра, меди и железа: литьё, холодная обработка, пайка. Исследуются методы нанесения на изделия покрытий из инородных металлов. Особое внимание уделяется инструментарию и оборудованию, которые применяли на территории...
Учебное пособие. – Таганрог: Изд-во Кучма, 2010. – 128 с. ISBN: 978-5-98517-118-1. В пособии рассматриваются основные этапы становления научного знания, показана роль науки и техники в культурно-историческом процессе. Предназначено для аспирантов, магистрантов, студентов вузов, широкого круга читателей.
Ленинград: Наука, 1977. — 264 с. В книге на большом историко-научном и историко-техническом материале рассматриваются гносеологические и исторические особенности возникновения и развития технических наук. Особое внимание авторы уделяют анализу предметной практики как объекта технического знания, исследованию его структуры, выявлению тенденций развития технических наук в эпоху...
М.: Сенатская типография, 1782. — 162 с. — Язык: русский дореформенный.
Совершенное описание строения мельниц, в котором обстоятельно показывается:
Все правила потребные для практики и не многим сведомые.
Удобности, какие наблюдать должно при заложении водяных колес к разным машинам.
Что особенно нужно поправить в хлебных, крупяных, бумажных, пороховых, пильных, шлифовальных...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 619 с. — (История науки). — ISBN 9785444801284, 5444801280. Книга представляет собой сборник переводов избранных статей по истории американской науки и охватывает разные аспекты организации науки и научного образования в США. Статьи сгруппированы по четырем темам: проблема становления американской системы подготовки научных кадров;...
Дмитриев М.И., Есеновский-Лашков М.Ю., Зенин А.С., Маланин И.А., Сергеев А.И. — Учебное пособие. — М.: Университет машиностроения, 2013. — 83 с. Рассмотрено зарождение и развитие техники применительно к машиностроению. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, изучающих дисциплину «История развития науки и техники». Введение. История развития литейного производства . Освоение...
Учеб. пособие. — Красноярск : Сиб. федер. ун-т, 2016. — 412 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7638-3354-6 В пособии представлены сведения по истории науки о материалах и технологиях, о жизни и деятельности ученых и инженеров, внесших значительный вклад в развитие материаловедения и технологии обработки материалов. Рассмотрены способы обработки материалов, особенности их открытия и применения в...
Ташкент, Узбекистан, 1982, 271 с. ил. (в файле только 59 с. )
Книга охватывает развитие техники в мировом масштабе за весь период существования человечества. В работе сравнительно небольшого объема, имеющей столь широкие рамки исследования, естественно, не могут быть отражены исчерпывающе факты по истории техники. Авторы стремились отразить в своей книге лишь наиболее...
Ленинград: Наука, Ленинградское отделение, 1984. — 190 с. Книга посвящена содержательным аспектам моделирования как научного метода решения познавательных и прикладных задач применительно к объектам и процессам макромира. Прослеживаются вехи истории развития модельных представлений, обсуждаются современные воззрения на модель как на специфический искусственный объект...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 — 784 p. — ISBN-10 0618221239, ISBN-13 9780618221233 (eng). In this age of genetic engineering and global warming, it is more important than ever to understand the history and current trends of science and technology. With so much information out there, though, it’s hard to know where to start. That’s where The History of Science and Technology ?...
М.: Государственное медицинское издательство, 1935. — 416 с. Предлагаемая работа была закончена незадолго до войны. Прием, оказанный ей, был так благоприятен, что первый том разошелся уже во время войны. К сожалению ввиду чрезвычайных трудностей, с которыми пришлось бороться немецкому издательскому делу, второе издание не могло появиться непосредственно вслед за первым, так что...
Владивосток: Изд-во ДВГТУ, 2003. - 195 с.
В учебное пособие включены темы: эволюция техники в различных областях; история изобретения и развития компьютера, холодильника, стиральной машины, пылесоса, микроволновой печи и других широко применяемых бытовых машин и приборов. Рассмотрены современные тенденции развития и спрогнозированы пути перспективного усовершенствования машин...
2-е изд., доп. — Москва: Добросвет, Городец, 2016. — 480 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7913-0108-6, 978-5-906815-16-3. Почему Сталин решил объявить себя умудренным диалектиком? Зачем он на протяжении всей жизни (и чем дальше, тем больше) поддерживал не лучших ученых страны, а невежественных мошенников и проходимцев, цинично обещавших ему златые горы? Что принесла стране такая деятельность...
Basic Books, 2012. — 352 p. — ISBN: 0465029736, 9780465029730. In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress. We often overlook the historical link between mathematics and technological advances, says Stewart—but this connection is integral...
Кн. для учителя. — М.: Просвещение, 1988. —304 с.: ил.
Книга является продолжением «Очерков истории науки и техники XVI—XIX веков», изданных в 1984 г. История всемирной науки и техники с 1870 по 1917 г. показывается в тесной связи с основными процессами социально-экономической и политической жизни рассматриваемого периода, который характеризуется, с одной стороны, крупными...
М.: Государственное медицинское издательство, 1938. — 386 с. Предлагаемая работа была закончена незадолго до войны. Прием, оказанный ей, был так благоприятен, что первый том разошелся уже во время войны. К сожалению ввиду чрезвычайных трудностей, с которыми пришлось бороться немецкому издательскому делу, второе издание не могло появиться непосредственно вслед за первым, так что...
Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2016. — 172 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-944835-01-9. Ubiquitous, mobile supercomputing. Artificially-intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neuro-technological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it's happening at exponential speed. Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World...
Учебное пособие. – Ульяновск: УлГТУ, 2010. – 90 с. ISBN: 978-5-9795-0662-3. Предназначено для студентов высших учебных заведений, обучающихся по направлению 5090068 «Магистр техники и технологии» и изучающих дисциплину «История и методология науки в машиностроительных производствах» в соответствии с государственным образовательным стандартом высшего профессионального...
Коллектив авторов. — Хрестоматия. — Екатеринбург: Уральский университет, 2015. — 147 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-1402-7. Данное учебное пособие посвящено научной деятельности ученых Средневековья. В пособии содержатся материалы по учебной дисциплине в форме биографических данных ученых и фрагментов их научных трудов. Материал изложен в хронологическом порядке с VI по XIII вв., до...
М.: Ленанд, 2014. — 200 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9710-2491-0. В книге рассматривается эволюция инженерии и проектирования начиная с Античности и до нашего времени. Уже Аристотель формулирует замысел особой практики, опирающейся на научное изучение природных явлений. В Новое время этот замысел переосмысляется в рамках естествознания и магии как задача построения инженерной деятельности;...
Будапешт: Корвина, 1979. — 160 с.: ил. — (Иллюстрированная история). — ISBN: 963-13-0792-1. Изображение хорошего качества с текстовым слоем и закладками . В книге описаны исторические события XVIII в., произошедшие в Англии и английских колониях, — промышленная революция. Описаны жизнь английской провинции и крупных промышленных городов, добыча угля на шахтах в Северной и...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2018. — 287 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-08273-2. Мы с вами проследим исторический путь, который прошел прибор для измерения времени, начиная от зари человечества вплоть до сегодняшнего дня: от банальных солнечных до самых современных – водородных. Вы прочтете историю возникновения часов, узнаете, что часы бывают живые, водяные, песочные, огневые, башенные,...
Избранные труды. 1921-1963. СПб., 2006
В настоящее издание включены работы из архива ученого, посвященные различным вопросам истории античной, средневековой и новоевропейской науки и философии.
3-є вид., переробл. і доп. — Харків: НТУ ХПІ, 2004. — 382 с. Навчальний посібник для студентів вищих навчальних закладів. У посібнику показано як поєднані між собою природнича, технічна, виробнича і гуманітарна складові культури. Розкривається картина накопичення суперечностей між людиною і Природою та шляхи їх розв’язання в сучасних умовах. Для викладачів і студентів вищих і...
Хрестоматия. — Сост. А.В. Бармин, В.В. Запарий, В.Д. Камынин и др. — Екатеринбург: Уральский университет, 2016. — 176 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-1711-0. Хрестоматия создана для преподавания и изучения истории науки и техники на всех курсах и всех формах обучения университета. В пособии содержатся материалы по учебной дисциплине в форме биографических данных ученых и фрагментов их...
Руководство по самостоятельной работе (для аспирантов и студентов). Петропавловск-Камчатский: КамчатГТУ, 2010. - 217 с.
История современной цивилизации может быть с позиций естествознания представлена в виде последовательности успехов и неудач в освоении отдельных видов энергии, начиная с энергии собственных мускулов и кончая ядерной энергией. На всех этапах своего...
Учебное пособие. Под ред. С.В. Кулика, С.Б. Ульяновой. — СПб.: Политехнический университет, 2015. — 143 с. Учебное пособие соответствует содержанию программы аспирантуры по направлению 07.00.10 "История науки и техники". Рассматриваются основные проблемы истории науки и техники, различные методологические подходы. Приводится широкий круг печатных и электронных источников по...
Ленинград : Прибой, 1928. — 292 с. Книга Вальдемара Кемпферта имеет свои достоинства. Большое достоинство — это ее полнота. Она охватывает почти все отрасли и является своего рода энциклопедией. В русской литературе почти нет книг, дающих общую историю изобретений. В иностранной литературе таких книг мало. В этом отношении русское издание, надо полагать, отвечает вполне...
Москва: Наука, 1988. — 448 с.—ISBN: 5-02-008018-7. Книга посвящена различным аспектам генезиса науки в эпоху раннего и среднего эллинизма и времен римского владычества. Естественнонаучные идеи мыслителей прошлого даны в тесном сопряжении с философскими, религиозными, вообще гуманитарными представлениями той эпохи. Для философов, историков философии, всех интересующихся историей...
MIT Press, 2001. - 443 pp. In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was one of the many intellectual tools—along with what we consider to be the superior tools of social and political analysis—that Renaissance thinkers used to attack...
СПб. ВГК, Алетейя, 1994. 375 с. История изучения пифагореизма насчитывает уже более полутора веков - если считать отправной точкой работу Августа Бёка о фрагментах Филолая. Тем не менее пифагорейский вопрос остается одним из самых запутанных и дискуссионных в истории раннегреческой науки и философии. Библиография работ по пифагореизму насчитывает сотни статей и книг, при этом...
СПб.: Питер, 2011. — 208 с. ISBN: 978-5-49807-906-6 В техногенном мире мы чувствуем себя как рыба в воде. Но как развивались бы события, если бы одного из научных открытий не произошло, а другое запоздало на несколько лет? Сколько опасностей таят новейшие изобретения и как они могут изменить ближайшее будущее? Безопасен ли адронный коллайдер? Будут ли люди носить электронные...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 839 p. Review "This book is an excellent source for current thinking on Early Modern Science. The chapters are writtten by the leading shcolars n their respective fields. This book, along with the rest of the Cambridge History of Science series, belongs in all academic and large public libraries." - American Reference Books Annual "The real...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 942 p. This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also to be used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to Western science, space is also given...
М.: Прогресс, 1987. — 495 с. В книге предпринята одна из первых попыток в мировой историографической литературе представить развитие естествознания в его целостном виде на материале важнейших событий истории науки в хронологической последовательности. До сих пор подобные хронологии составлялись применительно лишь к отдельным наукам. Ценность книги помимо всего прочего состоит еще...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 416 с. В книге показана картина мирового технического прогресса в его развитии. История техники доведена до 70-х годов XIX в. Развитие техники рассмотрено в разных социально-экономических условиях. Большое внимание уделено технической революции и промышленному перевороту конца XVIII и начала XIX в., в результате которых утвердилось капиталистическое...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 688 p. This book in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of the life and earth sciences since 1800. It provides comprehensive and authoritative surveys of historical thinking on major developments in these areas of science, on the social and cultural milieus in which the knowledge was generated,...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. — 785 p. — ISBN: 9780618221233. Welcome to a complicated book that I think will be easy to read and use. Most histories of science or technology present a highly selected story of the most important discoveries. The History of Science and Technology takes a different approach. While there are narrative accounts of more than a hundred different...
Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN 9781405356831. Ideas that Changed the World combines the quality and breadth of a modern design museum with the high standards of a DK reference title. Stunning photography and beautifully written stories work together to give the reader a unique experience. We don't just show you what's ground-breaking about a space suit, we...
2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 440 p.
The exploration of space.
Global warming.
Napoleon and science.
The entry of women into astronomy.
The exploration of Australia.
The history of astronomy.
Telescopes.
The history of nuclear and particle physics.
Pheromones.
The history of mathematics.
The Darwin/Wedgwood/Galton relationships.
Mnemonics.
The geological...
М.: Государственное медицинское издательство, 1932. — 432 с. Предлагаемая работа была закончена незадолго до войны. Прием, оказанный ей, был так благоприятен, что первый том разошелся уже во время войны. К сожалению ввиду чрезвычайных трудностей, с которыми пришлось бороться немецкому издательскому делу, второе издание не могло появиться непосредственно вслед за первым, так что в...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 248 p. — (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World). — ISBN 9780313327636, 0313327637. Since ancient times, technological advances have increased man's chances for survival. From the practicality of a Roman aqueduct to the art of the written word, man has always adapted his environment to meet his needs, and to provide himself with...
London, New York: Routledge, 2016. — 435 p. — ISBN: 978-1-315-69426-9. To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. Taking a global yet comprehensive approach to this complex topic, A History of Science in World Cultures uses a broad range of case studies...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 708 p. This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social...
Книга первая. — М.: Дельфис, 2017. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-5-93366-095-8. Человека человеком сделало творчество, изобретательность, а труд лишь размножал изобретенное, повторяя первый прототип. Случайной последовательности в череде изобретений нет, поэтому нет случайной последовательности в истории человечества. Поэтому история человечества имеет логику, стержнем которой является...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 734 p. Forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines provide a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences-including behavioral and economic sciences since the late eighteenth century. The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 344 с. В книге прослеживается долгая история формирования научных институтов от позднего средневековья до сегодняшнего дня. Автор последовательно опровергает представления о линейной эволюции науки, фокусируя внимание читателя на неочевидности событий, обозначивших реальную траекторию ее развития. Он показывает, как различные интересы и...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 268 с. Книга «Традиции и революции в истории науки» посвящена актуальной теме анализа переломных эпох в развитии науки. В историко-философской и историко-научной литературе 60-х годов подчеркивалась обычно важность осознания разрыва, скачка в развитии научных идей. Исследования же последних двух десятилетий все более и более сосредотачивались на выявлении...
М.: Издательство "За Индустриализацию", 1934. - 194с.
"История техники в состоянии мобилизовать опыт прошлого для строительства будущего. Практическое значение должен и будет иметь этот сборник, потому что он, опираясь на учение Маркса—Ленина—Сталина о технике, стремится подойти к современным проблемам в историческом разрезе, потому что он стремится обобщить опыт технического...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 656 p. This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together,...
М.: Просвещение, 1984. — 287 с. В книге освещается развитие основных отраслей науки и техники в период переворота в естествознании XVI-XVIII вв. - от Леонардо да Винчи, Коперника и Галилея до М.В.Ломоносова и во время промышленного переворота XVIII-XIX вв. Книга является пособием для преподавателей истории и обществоведения., в первую очередь для учителей VI-VIII и Х классов....
CRC Press, 2017. — 421 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4987-5830-4. The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. "Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the stone age to modern times. It...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1-465482-48-2. Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and boldly graphic biography-led book. The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series, Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek...
Учебное пособие. - Владимир: Владим. гос. ун-т, 2004. - 111 с.
В настоящем пособии рассматривается начальный этап развития техники в связи с общим развитием культуры человечества.
Пособие предназначено студентам технических специальностей, изучающим курс "История развития науки и техники".
Москва-Ленинград: ОНТИ - Объединенное научно-техническое издательство НКТП СССР, Главная редакция общетехнической литературы и номографии, 1937. - 256с. "История техники в состоянии мобилизовать опыт прошлого для строительства будущего. Практическое значение должен и будет иметь этот сборник, потому что он, опираясь на учение Маркса—Ленина—Сталина о технике, стремится подойти к...
K.n.o.p.f, 1992. — 448 p. — ISBN 0679734155. Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an...
Монография. — К.: Центр памятниковедения НАН Украины, 2013. — 252 с. — ISBN: 978-966-8999-52-9. Рассмотрена сущность техники как социального явления. Проанализированы существующие определения техники, ее материальная и идеальная составляющие. Исследованы функциональная структура техники, ее генезис и развитие. Издание рассчитано на исследователей проблем истории и философии...
Межконтинентальное издательство Китая, 2005. — 213 с.: илл. — (Основные сведения о Китае). Пеpевод Чэнь Жу. Истоpия научно-технического pазвития. Научно-технические pесуpсы. Политики и законы в области науки и техники. Упpавление в научно-технической области и система научно-технического исследования. Научно-технические пpогpаммы и план. Важные области. Hаучно-технические...
Учебное пособие. — Сыктывкар: СЛИ, 2013. — 88 с. В издании рассматривается формирование общественных и производственных отношений в первобытном обществе, история развития техники в странах Древнего Востока, а также во времена Античности. После каждой главы есть контрольные вопросы. В конце даны тесты для проверки знаний. Приведен список рекомендуемой литературы для более...
Конспект лекций и практические задания по культурологии. — Пермь: Изд-во Перм. гос. техн. ун-та, 2010. — 31 с. — ISBN: 978-5-398-00481-6. Составлено в соответствии с минимальными требованиями к содержанию дисциплины федерального компонента ОПД.Ф.04 ГОС высшего профессионального образования «Культурология». Исследуется научная картина мира в ее исторических и современных формах....
СПб.: Европейский дом, 2001. — 192 с.
В монографии излагается материал о становлении естественных наук в системе культуры европейского средневековья. Такой аспект изучения истории науки способствует формированию структурных связей между элементами естественнонаучных и гуманитарных дисциплин.
2nd edition. — The Johns Hopkins Uiversity Press, Baltimore, 2006. — 478 p. — ISBN13: 9780801889394. Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. Tracing this relationship from the dawn of civilization through the twentieth century, James E. McClellan...
Учебное пособие. — СПб: НИУ ИТМО, 2012. — 157 с. Рассматривается ход истории науки и образования с учетом изменения мировоззрения, а также развитие оптического приборостроения на примере истории микроскопии. Учебное пособие предназначено для обучения магистров по направлению 200700 Фотоника и оптоинформатика для изучения дисциплины "История и методология фотоники и...
Учебное пособие. — СПб: СПбГЛТУ, 2011. — 96с. В учебном пособии рассмотрены следующие вопросы: формирование теории управления как точной научной дисциплины, имеющей свои базовые понятия и законы; основные этапы в истории науки об управлении: автоматика, теория автоматического регулирования, кибернетика, общая теория систем, современная теория управления; интегративный характер...
М.: ОНТИ - Государственное технико-теоретическое издательство, 1934. — 244 с. "История техники в состоянии мобилизовать опыт прошлого для строительства будущего. Практическое значение должен и будет иметь этот сборник, потому что он, опираясь на учение Маркса—Ленина—Сталина о технике, стремится подойти к современным проблемам в историческом разрезе, потому что он стремится...
М.: Издано Федором Денисовым, Типография Семена Селивановского, 1828. — 566 с.
Пространное руководство к общей технологии, или к познанию всех работ, средств, орудий и машин, употребляемых в разных технических искусствах:
Обогащение полезных ископаемых, Общая технология металлов, Основные процессы и аппараты химической технологии.
Для изучающих историю техники.
Yale: Yale University Press, 2012. — 271 p. Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. From ancient Greek philosophers through Einstein and Watson and Crick to the...
Sterling, 2015. — 528 p. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN 9781454908098, 1454908092. Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems—and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the catapult to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU,...
Springer, 2010. — 287 p.
There is no more fundamental resource than water. The basis of all life, water is fast becoming a key issue in today’s world, as well as a source of conflict. This fascinating book, which sets out many of the ingenious methods by which ancient societies gathered, transported and stored water, is a timely publication as overextraction and profligacy...
Berlin, Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-20396-4 - 492 p. Монография известного итальянского математика и историка науки, посвященная науке, технике и технологии эллинистического мира. На основании многих письменных свидетельств автор приходит к выводу, что Александрия, III век до н.э. - это место и время появления науки, обладавшей почти всеми характерными признаками науки...
Учеб. пособие. — СПб.: Издательство СПбГЭТУ «ЛЭТИ», 2016. — 120 с. Содержит обзор исторического развития науки и техники автоматического управления и связанных с ними разделов электротехники, электромеханики, электроники и вычислительной техники с древности до середины XX столетия. Предназначено для подготовки магистров по направлению 220400 «Управление в технических системах»...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1970. — 266 с.
Книга содержит исследование китайского ремесленного производства (текстильного, железоделательного, керамического, бумажного, художественных промыслов), славившегося высоким мастерством ручного труда; рассматриваются технические и организационные особенности ремесла, его развитие. Автор затрагивает проблему...
Washington: Regnery Publishing, Inc, 2011. — 481 p. — ISBN: 9781596981553. Maybe the Dark Ages Weren't So Dark After All… Here are some facts you probably didn't learn in school: People in the Middle Ages did not think the world was flat–in fact, medieval scholars could prove it wasn't; The Inquisition never executed anyone because of their scientific ideas or discoveries...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 601 p. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Introduction (by Bernard Lightman). Historiography of the...
3rd Edition. — Springer, 2016. — 4732 p. This updated and augmented third edition of this landmark encyclopedia contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new...
Adventures Unlimited Press, 2007 - 334 p.
Now we know what spooked the Allies in the closing months of the war and why they were in such a panic to win quickly. The Allies assembled intelligence reports of supermetals, electric guns, and ray weapons able to stop the engines of Allied aircraft in addition to their worst fears of x-ray and laser weaponry. Then there were the...
Routledge, 2003. — 267 p. Does science work best in a democracy? Was "Soviet" or "Nazi" science fundamentally different from science in the USA? These questions have been passionately debated in the recent past. Particular developments in science took place under particular political regimes, but they mayor may not have been directly determined by them. Science and Ideology...
Санкт-Петербург: Общественная Польза, 1868. — 502 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Справочная книжка Бернулли отличается систематичностью и простотой изложения сведений о предметах, входящих в круг занятий практического механика. Нам казалось, что перевод её на русский язык может принести пользу не только молодым техникам, иногда незнакомым с иностранными языками, но и даровитым...
Монография.
Таганрог: Изд-во Кучма, 2009. - 170 с.
Грецией заложен фундамент современного научного мышления, греческая философия явилась теоретической основой современной науки. В монографии показаны значительность и фундаментальность греческого научного наследия, рассмотрено, каким образом каждая новая эпоха по-своему его осознавала, воспринимала, делая составной частью своей...
Ballantine Books, 1992. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0-345-37316-2. A one-volume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A History of Knowledge covers not only all the great...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 361 p. Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and was little concerned with mathematics. By contrast, the exact mathematical sciences were narrowly confined to various computations that did not involve physical causes, functioning totally...
Перевод Хотинского М.С. — Санкт-Петербург: Издание Товарищества "Общественная польза", 1861. Историческая записка о паровых машинах. Введение. Машины атмосферного и низкого давления. Машины высокого давления. Пароходы. Изобретения главнейших частей паровых машин. Перечень и заключения. Разбор критических замечаний вызванных предыдущею статьей. Взрывы паровых машин.
Екатеринбург: Уральский университет, 2016. — 162 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-1681-6. В учебном пособии рассматриваются методология происхождения науки, а также особенности преднауки Древнего Востока. Раскрываются предпосылки и условия формирования теоретико-доказательной формы научного знания в античной культуре, обосновывается возможность выделения средневековой науки,...
СПб.: Издание Ф.В. Щепанского, 1896. — 456 с.
Общедоступное руководство къ изготовленію электрическихъ приборовъ и къ производству съ ними опытовъ, дающихъ возможность изучить и провѣрить важнѣйшіе законы, касающіеся электрическихъ явленій. Со второго нѣмецкаго изданія (дополненнаго и улучшеннаго) перевелъ В.И. Святскій. Съ 417-ю рисунками.
Владикавказ: Южный математический институт, 2010. — IV, 360 с. — ISBN 978-5-904695-01-9. В книге собраны статьи и эссе последнего десятилетия о науке и ее месте в современном обществе. Основное внимание уделено людям науки. Представлены работы, касающиеся жизни и творчества А. Д. Александрова, Л. В. Канторовича, Н. Н. Лузина, С. Л. Соболева, С. Маклейна, Л. Шварца и ряда других...
М.: Наука. Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1990.— 203 с.
Книга посвящена влиянию европейского рационализма и светского знания на исторические судьбы и культуру народов Востока. В ней рассказывается о роли колониализма и привнесении элементов европейской образованности в жизнь восточных обществ, о сложных и многозначных путях взаимодействия европейской науки с местными...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 511 с. Предлагаемый читателю труд является продолжением ранее изданной монографии «Техника в ее историческом развитии. От появления ручных орудий труда до становления техники машинно-фабричного производства». В книге, охватывающей период с 70-х годов XIX в. до начала XX в. представлена эволюция техники в условиях империализма, показано влияние ее на различные...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 352 с. — (Библиотека всемирной истории естествознания). — ISBN: 5-02007958-8. В книге на фоне широкого социокультурного контекста раскрывается процесс становления и развития научного знания в средние века. Подробно анализируется формирование стиля научного мышления, показывается преемственность науки средневековья и нового времени. Для специалистов в области...
М.: Издательство: Наука. 1940. — 158 с.
„Наука потому и называется наукой, что она не признает фетишей, не боится поднять руку на отживающее, старое, и чутко прислушивается к голосу опыта, практики. Если бы дело обстояло иначе, у нас не было бы вообще науки, не было скажем астрономии, и мы все еще пробавлялись бы обветшалой системой Птоломея". И. СТАЛИН
Москва-Ленинград: ОНТИ - Объединенное научно-техническое издательство НКТП СССР, Главная редакция общетехнической литературы и номографии, 1936. — 295 с. "История техники в состоянии мобилизовать опыт прошлого для строительства будущего. Практическое значение должен и будет иметь этот сборник, потому что он, опираясь на учение Маркса—Ленина—Сталина о технике, стремится подойти...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 500 p. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in...
М.: МГСУ, 2010. — 344 с. — ISBN 9785930937947, 593093794X В монографии кратко изложена история строительства водяных и ветряных мельниц в России в прошедшие века. Приведены сведения о конструкциях и методах подбора основного оборудования, строительных и гидротехнических сооружений ветряных и водяных мельниц – жерновых пар, механических передач, водяных и ветряных колес, плотин,...
М.: РГГУ, 2001. — 154 c. Книга посвящена истории Пражского универсального научного объединения, созданного в конце XVI в. императором Рудольфом II с целью развития науки и создания теоретических основ гармонизации общества. Дается характеристика деятелей, направлений и центров объединения. Рассматриваются проблемы преемственности школ, взаимопроникновения науки и искусства,...
Иркутск: ИрГТУ, 2001. — 407 с. — (Библиотека Иркутского государственного технического университета).
Общие вопросы.
Военная техника.
Геология.
Горное дело.
Кибернетика и вычислительная техника.
Металлургия.
Математика.
Механика.
Строительство и архитектура.
Транспорт и связь.
Физика.
Химия и химическая технология.
Машиностроение.
Энергетика.
Электротехника....
Москва-Ленинград: ОНТИ - Объединенное научно-техническое издательство НКТП СССР, Главная редакция общетехнической литературы и номографии, 1936. — 250 с. "История техники в состоянии мобилизовать опыт прошлого для строительства будущего. Практическое значение должен и будет иметь этот сборник, потому что он, опираясь на учение Маркса—Ленина—Сталина о технике, стремится подойти...
С.-Петербург: Книгоиздательское Товарищество Просвещение, 1904. — 500 с. (текст распознан). Зачатки техники (Макс фон Эйтъ). Техническая деятельность первобытной эпохи (Эдуард Краузе). Зачатки искусства (Эдуард Краузе). Исследование сил природы . Прогресс физики и химии и их значение для развития техники, промышленности, сообщения, торговли и т. д. (Д-р Альберт Нейбургеръ)....
Пермь: Изд-во Перм. нац. исслед. политехн. ун-та, 2014 – 198 с. Содержание Зарождение строительства как деятельности человека в эпоху каменного века Развитие строительного искусства в эпоху бронзового века на примере культур речных долин Нила, Тигра и Евфрата, Инда и Хуанхэ. Строительное искусство Древней Персии, Финикии и Греции. Строительное искусство древних римлян. Раннее...
Routledge, 1996. — Transferred to Digital Printing 2007. — 464 p. — ISBN: 0–415–15291–7. In this comprehensive history, Donald Hill opens a window on medieval and classical engineering. The book focuses on on Greece, Rome and medieval Western Europe, but also includes interesting information on Middle Eastern technology. Documenting over 1800 years, Donald Hill illustrates how...
Harper Perennial, 2006. — 822 p.— ISBN 9780060935641, 0060935642. Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world...
М.: Знание, 1987. — 176 с. Техника уходит своими корнями в далекое прошлое. Однако когда же возникла инженерная профессия и каково ее место в современной культуре? Именно рассмотрение исторической эволюции инженерной деятельности позволяет ответить на этот сложный вопрос. Автор книги рассказывает о древних и современных основах технической деятельности, изменении соотношения...
Редакция, перевод, статья и комментарии В. П. Зубова. — М.: АН СССР, 1955. — 1030 с. — (Классики науки). Судьба Леонардо-ученого трагична. Он принадлежит к числу тех гениев, научное наследие которых стало известно и в целом и в деталях лишь долгое время спустя после их смерти. Лишь в отдельных случаях можно проследить непосредственное влияние идей Леонардо на последующее...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение (НЛО), 2022. — 330 с. — (История науки). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2082-7. Дискуссия о судьбе академических институций в современном мире касается не только вопросов науки и образования, но также – смены элит и разрыва поколений, свободы и критического мышления. В своей книге, написанной в тюремной камере, Сергей Зуев размышляет об утопическом проекте...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1946. — 249 с.
Введение.
Наука и техника предреволюционной Франции
Революционный характер науки
Математика и механика небесных тел
Физика и химия
Естественная история
Физиология и медицина
Минералогия и геология
Технико-изобретательская мысль
Исторические концепции периода Просвещения
Исторические взгляды Монтескьё
Вольтер, как историк...
Kazi Publications, 2001. — 386 p. This is the first one-volume work in English to deal with every branch of Islamic science and to approach it not from the Western viewpoint but as it is understood by the Muslims themselves. Islamic science, known to the West principally for its influence on the development of European scientific thought, occupied a central position within the...
MIT Press, 2007. - 315 pp.
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations-the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the...
Пер. Алексей Кащеев. — Москва: Livebook/Гаятри, 2018. — 460 с., 216 ил. — ISBN 978-5-907056-19-0. Удивительно, но в эпоху неслыханного технического прогресса, развития медицины и популяризации науки до сих пор есть люди, которые сознательно отказываются от прививок, верят в гомеопатию, пытаются лечиться отварами трав (это в лучшем случае). На них успешно наживаются популярные...
Ленинград: Наука, Ленинградское отделение, 1974. — 267 с. Основание академий наук в крупнейших странах Европы относится к эпохе, когда наука, особенно естествознание, переживала могучий подъём, круто пошла в гору после многих веков прозябания или застоя. Историки науки нашего времени вскрыли много неизвестных и забытых фактов, относящихся к средневековью, показали, что и в это...
Учебное пособие. — Новосибирск: Издательство СО РАН, 2005. — 360 с. — ISBN: 5-7692-0717-5. В учебном пособии обсуждаются специфика научной деятельности, структура научного знания, критерии научного знания, методы и средства познания, основные методологические принципы. Рассматривается история развития науки и техники с древнейших времен по настоящее время. Основное внимание...
Курс лекций. — Краснодар: КубГАУ, 2015. — 100 с. Предназначен для обучающихся по программам подготовки научно-педагогических кадров в аспирантуре по следующим направлениям подготовки: 35.06.04 Технологии, средства механизации и энергетическое оборудование в сельском, лесном и рыбном хозяйстве; 08.06.01 Техника и технологии строительства; 19.06.01 Промышленная экология и...
/ В.M. Мапельман, П. И. Черноусов, И.А. Коротченко, О.В. Голубев. М.: МИСиС, 2007, 78 с. В предлагаемых методических рекомендациях сосредоточены полезные сведения и практические рекомендации по подготовке одного из вариантов научной работы - реферата. В нем описаны некоторые проблемы, с которыми сталкивается всякий, кто выбирает или получает в качестве задания данную...
Amsterdam University Press, 2010. — 784 p. Once, the concept of ‘the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was innovative and inspiring, yielding what is still the master narrative of the rise of modern science. That narrative, however, has turned into a straitjacket—so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. Even so, in Floris Cohen’s view neither the early,...
Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2015. XV, 624 p. 420 illus. — ISBN: 978-3-662-44162-6, ISBN: 978-3-662-44163-3 (eBook). The most authoritative book on the history of Chinese Science and Technology by Chinese scholars, reflecting the progress of the field in past 30 years Chief Editor and contributors are all top Chinese scholars in related fields Winner of China...
Москва — Ленинград: Госэнергоиздат, 1956. — 473 с. В книге излагается история развития техники, главным образом гидроэнергетики, теплоэнергетики и электроэнергетики в России и за рубежом с древнейших времен до начала XX века. Книга предназначена для студентов втузов и для инженерно-технических работников. Предисловие. Введение. Развитие техники при первобытно-общинном строе....
Алма-Ата: Казахстан, 1965. — 240 с. Предисловие. – Мухаммед Хорезми. – Абунасыр Фараби. – Абуль-Вафа Бузджани. – Ибн Сина. – Абурайхан Бируни. – Махмуд Кашгари. – Омар Хайям. – Насреддин Туси. – Улугбек. – Джамшид Каши. – Алаеддин Кушчи. – Мухаммед-Хайдар Дуглат. – Кадыргали Джалаири. – Чокан Валиханов. – Список литературы по истории науки и культуры Средней Азии и Казахстана.
Санкт-Петербург,типография А. Пороховщикова, Бассейная, 3 -5. 1897 год.
С приложением исторического очерка развития железных дорог, пароходства и сооружения мостов, туннелей в России, составленного П. Красновым. 77 иллюстраций в тексте, перевод с английского.
Монография. — Владикавказ: Южный математический институт, 2015. — IV+449 с. В книге собраны статьи и эссе последних лет о науке и ее месте в современном обществе. Основное внимание уделено людям науки. Представлены работы, касающиеся жизни и творчества А.Д. Александрова, Л.В. Канторовича, Н.Н. Лузина, С.Л. Соболева, А. Робинсона и ряда других ученых современности. Часть книги...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 264 с.
В монографии исследуются способы интерпретации историками социальных аспектов науки, а также характер развития науки с точки зрения таких свойств этого развития, как поступательность, кумулятивность, непрерывность, революционность. Дается современная постановка проблем социальности в историографии науки в связи с изучением революционных ситуаций,...
Пер с нем. Е А. Косминского. —— М. ; Л.: Государственное технико-теоретическое издательство, 1934. — 222 с. Этот том "Истории научной литературы" посвящен культуре позднего итальянского Возрождения и описывает научное исследование, философское мышление и эрудицию этой эпохи в связи с литературой и общим состоянием образованности догалилеевской эры. Предисловие. Философия и...
New York: Polity, 2012. — 256 p.
A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global. Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an irresistible resource for industrial empires,...
N.-Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1910. — 338 p. Авторское предисловие: "The advancement in heat engines during the past four years has been such as to make it desirable to publish a new edition of this text. Among the new subjects treated are the Stumpf Uniflow Engine, the Humphrey Gas Pump, and recent developments in steam turbines and gas engines. It has been found also...
L.: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2008. - 227 p. Dr. Bennett traces the growing awareness of the importance and the significance of the concept of feedback in engineering and treats in detail the technical developments that contributed to this awareness. There follows an account of the development of steam and hydraulic servomechanisms and their application to...
London: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1984. — 904 p.
Bringing together a wealth of previously scattered information, this classic work traces the history of techniques and analyzes its relationship with other areas of knowledge.-Parts 1 and 2 provide historical coverage, from prehistory to the twentieth century, of man's attempts to master his environment. Part 3...
London: Oxford University Press, 1962. — 220 p. Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change , first published by Oxford University Press in 1962, was brilliantly conceived and researched. It was informed by White's compelling vision of the Middle Ages as a coherent and ultimately rational age. It brought to bear ten languages and almost as many categories of evidence,...
Пер. с англ. А. Л. Фомина, А. О. Котловой. — М.: Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2022. — 456 с. — (Социальная теория). Книга современного американского философа и историка науки Питера Галисона знакомит читателя с тем, как на рубеже XIX–XX вв. вырабатывалась процедура координации часов, ставшая затем одной из опор релятивистской физики. В центре внимания автора...
Учебное пособие. – Самара: Изд-во Самарского государственного аэрокосмического университета, 2013. — 52 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7883-0946-0. Приведены некоторые сведения из истории развития отраслей машиностроения. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, изучающих курсы «История науки и техники», «Введение в металлургию», «Технология конструкционных материалов» и «Основы...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 342 с.
Книга посвящена формированию основных представлений классической науки в XVII в., процессу, который получил название научной революции. Основное место отведено физико-математическим наукам, в развитии которых ярче всего отразились основные черты научной революции. Прослеживаются главные линии этого процесса, связанные в первую очередь с именами...
Монография. - М.: Ин-т истории естествознания и техники РАН, 2007. - 160 с.
Монография отражает результаты цикла исследований, проведенных автором в 1998–2006 гг. Изложены теоретико-методологические основы экологической истории техники, рассмотрены возможности применения результатов для исследования техносферы, анализа объектов, систем техники, отраслей, сфер деятельности,...
Курс лекций для бакалавров и студентов всех специальностей. — М: РУТ (МИИТ), 2018. — 229 с. Настоящий курс лекций предназначен для магистров и аспирантов всех направлений обучения. Четвертая часть курса лекций включает в себя восемь тем. Начинается рассмотрение с анализа развития научных знаний в истории и философии науки. Далее освещаются закономерности развития науки, глобальные...
Издательские решения, 2016. — 199 с. Книга «37 трагедий науки» рассказывает о тяжелых судьбах научных светил различных времён и национальностей. Слишком многое пришлось положить этим людям на алтарь науки, порой и саму жизнь. Персонажей этой книги постоянно испытывала судьба, словно выстраивая на их пути в ряд беды и невзгоды. Вступление. Втоптанный алмаз Александрии. Остановивший...
Springer, 2013. — 315 p.
This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of...
The University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 242 p. A New Scientist Best Book of 2023 Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This illustrated history of experimental science is more than just a celebration of the ingenuity that scientists and natural philosophers have used...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 297 p. — (History and Philosophy of Technoscience). — ISBN: 978-1-315-26889-7. Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, are science and technology becoming so interdependent that the line dividing...
London: Headline Book Publishing, 2016. — 1290 p. — ISBN 9780747273295, 0747273294. The story of science is a fascinating one and, whatever the difficulties it needs to be told. Science and history continue to be evolving human endeavours, constructed and written about in different ways. Concepts that are mainstream in one century have been nonsense in another. ‘Scientific...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 460 p. Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and myriad other ingenious inventions...
Sebastopol, CA; "O’Reilly Media", 2009, -544 p. The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. With this unique traveler's guide, you'll discover 128 destinations around the world where breakthroughs in science, mathematics, or technofogy occurred—or are happening now. See the world's. Largest science museum in Munich; watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 300 pp.
Peter Harrison provides a new account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the new approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged...
New York: Fact On File, 2006. — 517 p.
Spanning the vast history of science, "Chronology of Science" contains approximately 2,000 cross-referenced entries that chronicle scientific progress. Helpful identifiers categorize the entries into core areas (biology, chemistry, physics, marine science, space and astronomy, Earth science, and weather and climate).
London: Thames & Hudson, 2012. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-500-25191-1. The ideas, experiments, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionized our understanding of the world around us. Theories, discoveries, and technologies?from relativity, the genetic code, and the periodic table to synthetic drugs, nuclear weapons, and brain scans?have transformed the physical world and...
Springer, 2012. — 177 p. Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history…Typically, we remember our greatest scientists from one single invention, one new formula or one incredible breakthrough. This narrow perspective does not give justice to the versatility of many scientists who also earned a reputation in other areas of...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — xi, 308 p. — 9780198609391. List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: What is history for? Right for the wrong reasons The pasteurization of spontaneous generation ‘The battle over the electron’ The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddington’s ‘proof’ of general relativity Very unscientific management The Hawthorne studies: finding...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. — 856 p. Шестой и седьмой тома многотомной истории техники посвящены событиям первой половины XX века. Седьмой том охватывает темы: развития мирового транспортного рынка, автотранспорт, корабли и кораблестроение, железные дороги, авиация, навигационное оборудование, ракетные технологии, гражданское строительство (дороги, мосты, туннели, проты и...
Учебное пособие. — Барнаул: БГПУ, 2008. — 172 с. В настоящем учебном пособии представлен материал по дисциплине «История науки», изложенный в соответствии с программой курса. Программные вопросы распределены в соответствии с историческими этапами развития естественных наук. Должное внимание уделено вкладу российских ученых в становление мировой науки. Учебное пособие...
Тамбов: Изд-во Тамб. гос. техн. ун-та, 2006. – 88 с. Включает разделы по истории физики, химии, астрономии, биологии, термодинамики. Приводятся биографические сведения из жизни основателей физической науки, прослеживается история физических лабораторий. Предназначено магистрантам специальности "Стандартизация и сертификация" и студентам, изучающим курс "Концепции современного...
Перевод с немецкого Ф. А. Коган-Бернштейн и П. С. Юшкевича. Предисловие С.Ф. Васильева. — М.; Л.: Государственное технико-теоретическое издательство, 1933. — 303 с. Этот том "Истории научной литературы" посвящен культуре позднего итальянского Возрождения и описывает научное исследование, философское мышление и эрудицию этой эпохи в связи с литературой и общим состоянием...
СПб.: Типография доктора М. Хана, 1865. — 897 с. Издательский конволют включает три издания, которые знакомят с открытиями и изобретениями в области техники, физики, химии, астрономии, ботаники, зоологии и других наук. Издание рекомендуется любителям естественных наук. Описание составлено на основании анализа трех входящих в него изданий.: Силы природы и их применение :...
М.: Гос. технико-теорет. изд-во ОНТИ, 1934. — 310 с. Вниманию читателей предлагается книга французского математика и историка науки Поля Таннери (1843--1901), представляющая собой исторический очерк развития естествознания в Европе в XIV--XIX вв. В работе исследуется состояние научных познаний в области математики, физики, химии и астрономии, сложившееся к концу Средневековья,...
New York: Broadway Books, 2006. - 289 p.
René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates have made our physical and intellectual conquest of physical space possible.
But Descartes had a...
MIT Press, 2003. — 410 p. — (MIT Press Classics). — ISBN: 9780262310932 A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in changing technologies. While the book begins with the Stone Age, the Greeks, and the Romans, the bulk of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 351 p. — ISBN: 0-511-03613-2. Preface page. Acknowledgements. On analytic philosophy. On meaning. On objectivity. On belief. On synchronic explanation. On diachronic explanation. On distortions.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. — 235 p. A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics. Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries, from...
London: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1986. — 532 p. Bringing together a wealth of previously scattered information, this classic work traces the history of techniques and analyzes its relationship with other areas of knowledge.-Parts 1 and 2 provide historical coverage, from prehistory to the twentieth century, of man's attempts to master his environment. Part 3...
London: Fitzroy Deadborn Publishers, 2000. - 1000p. The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and...
Springer, 2008. — 335 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 20). The concept of symmetry is inherent to modern science, and its evolution has a complex history that richly exemplifies the dynamics of scientific change. This study is based on primary sources, presented in context: the authors examine closely the trajectory of the concept in the mathematical and scientific disciplines as well...
Routledge, 2013. — 214 p. — ISBN: 1408248891, 9781408248898, 113883520X, 9781138835207. How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new "Seminar Study" is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval people interpreted the world around them...
Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 2004. — 343 p. — (Groundbreaking scientific experiments, inventions and discoveries through the ages). — ISBN: 0–313–32433–6. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were a period of scientific and literary reawakening. Scientific development and a renewed interest in classical science led to new discoveries, inventions, and...
NY: Vintage, 1992 — 269 p. — ISBN: 9780679734161. The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best known examples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action -- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seen tossing...
Springer, 2015. — 582 p. This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2014. — 100 с. — ISBN 978-5-386-07285-8. Наука правит миром. Одежда, еда, дома, телевидение - все, что сегодня способно создать человечество, основывается на научных знаниях. Научные открытия в области медицины и биологии помогают сохранить здоровье. Благодаря современной науке мы так много знаем о мире вокруг. Однако так было не всегда. Прошла всего лишь...
С-Петербург: Издание Е.П. Павловой, 1894. — 66 с. "Сравнительно недавно, пишущие машины обращали на себя внимание, как предмет пустого любопытства, далекий от появления во всеобщем употреблении. Но в настоящее время пишущие машины на столько усовершенствованы, упрощены и удешевлены, что нет уже оснований смотреть на них, как на предмет курьеза и прихоти, напротив, они являются...
Л.: Наука, 1987. — 248 с.— ISBN: 5-02-027240-х Монография посвящена историко-теоретическому анализу развития научно-технического знания - от его предпосылок до становления современной системы технических наук. В ней предпринята попытка осветить проблему роли технической практики в генезисе науки и возникновение первой в истории системы теории научного знания. Оглавление...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. — 572 с. — (Интеллектуальная история). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1158-0. Как возникает великая гуманитарная наука? Как происходит переформатирование национальной культуры? В центре внимания автора находится формирование «историко-филологических наук» как особой констелляции дисциплин, борьба за онаучивание гуманитарного знания, широко...
М.: Прогресс, 1970. — 480 с. С. Лилли, прогрессивный английский историк и социолог, уже известен советскому читателю по его книге «Автоматизация и социальный прогресс», вышедшей на русском языке в 1958 году. В предлагаемой советскому читателю книге «Люди, машины и история» освещается не только история покорения человеком природы, начиная от создания им первых, самых примитивных...
Учебник. — М.: Российский университет транспорта РУТ (МИИТ), 2020. — 480 с. Настоящий учебник предназначен для магистров и аспирантов всех направлений обучения. Первый раздел учебника освещает основные исторические этапы развития научных знаний, начиная со стран Древнего Востока и заканчивая современным этапом развития науки. Второй раздел посвящён рассмотрению основных моделей...
СПб.: Тиалид, 1993. — 250 с.
Сборник документов посвящен экспедиционной деятельности знаменитого ученого и путешественника XVIII в. П.С. Палласа (1741-1811). В книгу включены рапорты Палласа, направлявшиеся им в Петербургскую Академию наук, и его письма историку Г.Ф. Миллеру за период с середины 1768 г. до конца 1771 г. В письмах и рапортах Палласа приводятся данные...
М.: Издательство МГУ, 1992. — 208 с. — ISBN: 5-211-00473-6. Книга знакомит с астрономическими и метеорологическими представлениями древних греков, отразившимися в их мифологии и литературе. Дана общая картина развития греческой культуры и науки в VI — II вв. до н. э. Особое место отводится памятникам литературы: приведены отрывки из поэм Гомера и Гесиода, впервые публикуются...
СПб.: Издание «Русской книжной торговли», 1867. — XLVIII, 813 с. История механики твердых и жидких тел. Приготовительный период к эпохе Галилея. Индуктивная эпоха Галилея. Открытие законов движения в простых случаях. Следствия эпохи Галилея. Период поверки и выводов. Открытие механических принципов жидких тел. Обобщение принципов механики. Последствия обобщения принципов механики....
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 350 p.
Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested the American scientific community during the Cold War. Sarah Bridger highlights the contributions of scientists to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age in the 1940s through the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 476 pp. During the first part of the twentieth century, German science led the world. The most important scientific institution in Germany was the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, including institutes devoted to different fields of scientific research. These researchers were not burdened by teaching obligations and enjoyed excellent financial and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 220 p. Engineering transformed the world completely between the 17th and 21st centuries. Remarkable Engineers tells the stories of 51 of the key pioneers in this transformation, from the designers and builders of the world's railways, bridges and aeroplanes, to the founders of the modern electronics and communications revolutions....
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2017. — 334 p. — ISBN: 3319409123. As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, the futuristic tools of Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy continue to come to life. This book merges Star Trek scientific lore—how the science of the time informed the implementation of technology in the series—and the science as it is playing out today....
Routledge, 2009. — 240 p.
This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II.
No scientist remained unaffected by the outbreak of World War II. As the book shows, there were basically two opposite ways in which the war encroached on the life of a scientific researcher. In some cases,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. — 281 p. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. Combined with Germany's generations-old reputation for excellence in science and engineering, these advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi...
Springer, 2014. - 286 pp. Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course of human history. A product of the intellectual elite, but always nourished by the many fruits of its applications, science appears today to be a perfect system, whose laws and discoveries guide all human activities. Yet the foundations...
Springer, 2009. — XV, 339 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-2252-3, e-ISBN: 978-90-481-2253-0 — (History of Mechanism and Machine Science). This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period. As for the very ancient ones, the book...
Springer, 2008. — 2424 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4020-4559-2. Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated...
Berg, 2001. — 289 p. How true is it that National Socialism led to an ideologically distorted pseudo-science? What was the relationship between the regime funding 'useful' scientific projects and the scientists offering their expertise? And what happened to the German scientific community after 1945, especially to those who betrayed and denounced Jewish colleagues? In recent...
СПб.: Издательство СПбГУ, 2011. — 468 с. — ISBN: 978-5-288-05151-7. В книге на основе широкого круга источников исследуются различные аспекты истории французской науки в эпоху Французской революции XVIII в. и Первой Империи (1804-1815): судьбы научной элиты страны в период якобинского террора, организация научно-технических работ, националистические тенденции в научном...
СПб.: РХГИ, 2002. — 424 с. — ISBN: 5-88812-172-Х. В книге анализируются зарождение и развитие историографии науки в античности — от самых ранних поисков «первооткрывателей» (VI в. до н. э.) до появления в школе Аристотеля первых историко-иаучных трудов (IV в. до н. э.). Среди сквозных тем исследования — античная философия и методология науки, в частности теории науки софистов,...
М.; Л.: АН СССР, 1940 — 507 с. Оглавление Введение Часть первая. Эпоха Киевской Руси Глава 1. Замечания о состоянии России в XI—XIII вв. Глава 2. Главные направления в понимании природы Глава 3. Элементы натурализма в бесписьменной технике Глава 4. Природа в свете богословской мистики Глава 5. Природа в свете богословской мистики (продолжение) Глава 6. Элементы античного...
Москва: Типография Т-ва И.Д.Сытина, 1896. — 486 с. Въ этой книжкѣ собраны статьи, написанныя въ разное время и напечатаныя въ разныхъ журналахъ («Мірѣ Божіемъ», «Семейныхъ вечерахъ»). Онѣ касаются различныхъ областей жизни и мысли. Но во всѣхъ ихъ есть и нѣчто общее, — это, стремленіе человѣческаго ума проникнуть въ тайну, окружающую его, добиться точной, безпристрастной, ничѣмъ...
СПб.: Издание «Русской книжной торговли», 1867. — XXII, 589 с. История философии греческих школ, по отношению к физической науке. Приготовительный период к философии греческих школ. Школьная греческая философия. Неудача физической философии греческих школ. История физических наук в древней Греции. Древнейшее состояние механики и гидростатики. Древнейшее состояние оптики....
СПб.: Издание «Русской книжной торговли», 1869. — 912 с. Механико-химические науки. История электричества. Открытие законов электрических явлений. Прогресс электрической теории. Механико-химические науки (продолжение). История магнетизма. Открытие законов магнитных явлений. Прогресс теории магнетизма. Механико-химические науки (продолжение). История гальванизма, или Вольтова...
Leiden: Brill Academic Pub, 2014. — 268 p. — (Scientific Instruments and Collections 4). During their active lives, scientific instruments generally inhabit the laboratory, observatory, classroom or the field. But instruments have also lived in a wider set of venues, as objects on display. As such, they acquire new levels of meaning; their cultural functions expand. This book...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 531 p. Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory that leads to several successful predictions is more likely to be accepted than one that only...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 384 p. The surprising history of the scientific method—from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps—and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century. The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant...
Springer, 2020. — 292 p. — (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 674). — ISBN: 978-3-030-48229-9. The book explores technological advances in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), which is based on a variety of technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, machine learning, big data, additive printing, cloud computing, and virtual and augmented reality....
Oxford University Press, 2006. - 563 pp. Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that...
New York, Random House, Inc., 2008 - 212 P.
A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most ground-breaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history.
With the attention to detail of a historian and the story-telling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world...
NY: National Geographic, 2015 — 809 p. — ISBN: 978-1-426-21584-1. Foreword by Henry Petroski. This vivid, engrossing book reveals the fascinating stories behind the objects in your world, what you wear, what you eat, what entertains you, and more. Discover the history behind the world's tallest skyscrapers, find out when people first started drinking caffeine and why it wakes...
М.: Моск. ред. изд-ва «Учитель», 2015. – 424 с. Оглавление. Введение. Между человеческой и постчеловеческой революциями, или какое будущее нас ожидает? Четыре технологические эпохи: теоретические аспекты. История технологий: охотничье-собирательский принцип производства. История технологий: аграрно-ремесленный принцип производства. История технологий: промышленно-торговый...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2022. — 750 c. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5737-9. Один из лучших в мире специалистов по истории науки Джордж Сартон увлекательно и ярко рисует картину развития математики, астрономии, физики, биологии, медицины, по мере того как они возникали в доисторической эпохе и расцветали в древнегреческом обществе. Первая часть книги посвящена ранним свидетельствам...
Учебное пособие. — Зерноград: Азово-Черноморский инженерный институт — филиал Донской ГАУ, 2018. — 201 с. В учебном пособии рассматриваются вопросы исторического развития науки и техники на примере такой значимой отрасли современной экономики, как электроэнергетика. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов и обучающихся на всех уровнях высшего образования (бакалавриат,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 345 p. — (New Approaches to Economic and Social History). — ISBN 978-0-521-68785-0. Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 338 p. This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar “battlefields” of the Cold War. Taken together, the essays highlight two primary roles for science studies as a new field of expertise institutionalized during the Cold War in different political regimes. Firstly, science...
Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2005. — 171 p.
This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including...
Springer, 2016. — 306 p. — (Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 18). This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168–1253) and does so from various perspectives, including those of a twenty-first century scientists, historians, and philosophers as well as several medievalists. In...
MIT Press, 2003. — 483 p. — (Transformations). — ISBN: 9780262062343. Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed for centuries as an impediment to the development of modern science. The Jesuit educational system was deemed conservative and antithetical to creative thought, while the Order and its members were blamed by Galileo, Descartes, and their disciples for virtually...
Springer, 2006. — 309 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 12). — ISBN: 978-1-4020-3975-1. The present volume offers the most comprehensive synthesis to date of the fecundity of early modern universities, their receptivity to novel scientific ideas, and their contribution to the critical dialogue that vitalized the emergent European scientific community. The "soul" of the early modern...
Springer, 2007. - 188 pp. The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives. Readers will find it illuminating to learn how prominent authors judge the current status and the...
US, "Escape Velocity Press", 2004, -212 p.
Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them.
Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 474 p. — 1107060060, 978-1107060067. How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. - 235 pp.
This book introduces the methodological and philosophical problems with which modern history of science is concerned, offering a comprehensive and critical review through description and evaluation of significant historiographical viewpoints. Incorporating discussion of key problems in general historical writing, with examples drawn...
MIT Press, 2006. — 376 pp. In 1945, the United States was not only the strongest economic and military power in the world; it was also the world's leader in science and technology. In American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe , John Krige describes the efforts of influential figures in the United States to model postwar scientific practices and...
Dover Publications, 2012. — 688 p. — ISBN 9780486144986, 0486144984. George Sarton (1884–1956) was a Belgian-American chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science. He has a significant importance in the history of science and his most influential work was the Introduction to the History of Science , which consists of three volumes...
Ashgate, 2010. — 203 p. Selling Science in the Age of Newton explores an often ignored avenue in the popularization of science. It is an investigation of how advertisements in London newspapers (from approximately 1687 to 1727) enticed consumers to purchase products relating to science: books, lecture series, and instruments. London's readers were among the first in Europe to...
Симферополь: Межвузовский центр «Крым», 2006 – № 87 – 142 с. Библиографический указатель опубликован в седьмом специализированном библиотечном выпуске научного журнала Культура народов Причерноморья. Биобиблиографический указатель является примером библиографического исследования и практического результата применения автоматизированных технологий создания новых видов...
СПб: Алетейя, 2000. — 493 с. В книге собраны воедино рассеянные до того в разных изданиях труды и мысли видного ученого XX в. И.И.Канаева по вопросам истории биологии. Читателю предложен глубокий историко-критический анализ развития широкого круга проблем эволюционной теории, общей и сравнительной анатомии и морфологии, физиологии, генетики в хронологических рамках XVIII-XX вв....
Москва: Наука, 1986. — 512 с. — (Наука. Мировоззрение. Жизнь). Автор книги — известный ученый, академик В.А. Кириллин в популярной форме рассказывает о магистральных путях развития науки и техники начиная с эпохи Древней Греции до наших дней. Большое внимание уделено достижениям современной науки: биологии и химии, радиоэлектроники и энергетики, последним открытиям в области...
М.: Evidentis, 2002. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5-94610-009-2. Первая часть книги "Становление европейской науки" посвящена истории общеевропейской культуры, причем в моментах, казалось бы, наиболее отдаленных от непосредственного феномена самой науки. По мнению автора, "все злоключения науки начались с того, что ее отделили от искусства, вытравляя из нее все личностное…". Вторая часть...
М.: Мир, 1993. — 142 с. Книга Рагнара Сульмана (Швеция), близкого друга и ассистента Альфреда Нобеля, повествует о драматической истории создания Нобелевского фонда. Особый интерес представляют личные впечатления автора от общения с Нобелем. Впервые публикуются письма Нобеля и полный текст его завещания. Для широкого круга читателей Содержание Воспоминания об Альфреде Нобеле...
Учебное пособие. — Зерноград: Азово-Черноморский инженерный институт — филиал Донской ГАУ, 2018. — 257 с. В учебном пособии рассматриваются вопросы исторического развития науки и техники на примере такой значимой отрасли современной экономики, как электроэнергетика. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов и обучающихся на всех уровнях высшего образования (бакалавриат,...
Springer, 2008. — 514 p. Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received many reviews by notable academics, including Maurice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, Geroge Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the philosophy and history of science. Here it appears in a...
Feminist Press at CUNY, 2010. — 312 p. Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations—limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men—to give historical context and unexpected revelations about women's...
Springer, 1996. — 471 p. The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. — 368 p. — (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas). — ISBN10: 0773550100; ISBN13: 978-0773550100. In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and...
Paris: Les Éditions Ophrys, 1974. — 796 p. La crise épistémologique des sciences humaines La science de l'homme jusqu'au XVIIe siècle. La science de l'homme dans l'antiquité. La synthèse théologique de la culture médiévale. La renaissance et les origines des sciences humaines : l'age des ambiguïtés. Vers l'anthropologie mécaniste La naissance du mécanisme et la légende...
Smithsonian Books, 2004. — 256 p. — ISBN 9781588345264, 1588345262. In the three-book The Story of Science series , master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of...
Smithsonian Books, 2005. — 480 p. — ISBN 9781588345288, 1588345289. In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of...
Duke University Press, 2014. — 342 p. Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train...
New York: Momentum Press, 2014. — 120 p.
Cultural Influences in Engineering Projects will focus on a dual objective of discussing culture within the project environment and how project managers can leverage development of a unique project culture to foster a higher probability of project success. To achieve this dual focus the book first establishes a foundation discussion of...
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. — 325 pp. — (Archimedes, Vol. 7) Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself however is a recent...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 425 p. Toby Huff examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. Huff explores the cultural contexts within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds...
London: Routledge, 2022. — 363 p. Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces the medieval evolution...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 1064 p. With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus...
Springer, 2014. — 206 p. — (History of Mechanism and Machine Science 22). — ISBN: 9789400775275. This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using examples from the history of machines, as well as case studies from wireless, radio and chaos theory, the author challenges the genius model of invention. Network analysis concepts are...
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul LTD, 1955 — 495 p. Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 — before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the...
University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 571 p.
Nothing is considered more natural than the connection between Isaac Newton’s science and the modernity that came into being during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Terms like Newtonianism are routinely taken as synonyms for Enlightenment and modern thought, yet the particular conjunction of these terms has a history full of...
The MIT Press, 2022. — 232 p. — ISBN 9780262048057, 0262048051. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation , the prolific author - a favorite of Bill Gates - pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 370 p. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek...
New York And London: Columbia University Press, 1923. The Twelfth Century The Early Scholastics: Peter Abelard and Hugh of St. Victor Adelard of Bath William of Conches Some Twelfth Century Translators, Chiefly of Astrology from the Arabic Bernard Silvester; Astrology and Geomancy .. Saint Hildegard of Bingen John of Salisbury Daniel of Morley and Roger of Hereford Alexander...
Wiley, 2012. — 351 p. A great invention opens the door to a new era in human history. The stone axe, for example, invented some 2 million years ago in East Africa, enabled us to enter the human path of endless improvements through inventions. The taming of fire enabled us to cook food as well as leave the warmth of Africa and move to the frigid lands of the North. From the stone...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. — 690 p. Шестой и седьмой тома многотомной истории техники посвящены событиям первой половины XX века. Шестой том охватывает темы: общий обзор мировой истории, источники инноваций, экономика технологического развития, менеджмент, профсоюзы, роль правительства, образование, ископаемое топливо, природные источники энергии, атомная энергия, ядерное...
Екатеринбург: Уральский университет, 2024. — 424 с. В хрестоматию включены фрагменты текстов, которые дают представление о развитии науки от истоков до современности и о сопровождавшем это развитие философском контексте. Обсуждаются вопросы природы научной революции Нового времени, становления классической науки и особенности перехода к неклассической и постнеклассической...
Алматы: ҚазҰАУ, 2010. — 190 б. Бұл оқу кұрал барлық мамандықтар бойынша жоғары профессионалдық білім беру шеңберінде мемлекеттік білім стандарттарына сəйкес магистр деңгейінің мазмұндық тұрғысынан қажетті минимумға жеткізу тарапында дайындалған. Бұл оқу құралда ғылымның тарихи, философиялық жəне методологиялық мəселелері бойынша отандық жəне əлемдік ғылымдағы актуалды нəтижелер...
Учебное пособие для аспирантов / С. В. Каменев, В. И. Залунин, М. В. Казмирук, О. В. Андреева. – Владивосток: Морской государственный университет, 2013. — 172 с. В учебном пособии рассматриваются философские и методологические проблемы развития науки, мировоззренческие вопросы места и роли науки в культуре. Обсуждаются истоки формирования и особенности научного познания....
Санкт-Петербург: Университет ИТМО, 2016. — 67 с. В настоящем учебно-методическом пособии рассмотрены основные этапы развития технических наук во взаимосвязи с основными технологическими укладами, которые отражают и характеризуют уровень технического развития общества в целом. Кратко и в общем виде изложена история возникновения и развития робототехники и мехатроники, а также...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 484 с. — (Библиотека всемирной истории естествознания). В монографии излагаются воззрения ранних греческих мыслителей о происхождении и устройстве мира, дается диалектико-материалистическое истолкование их взглядов. Рассматриваются специфические особенности науки того периода, ее проблематика, становление основных понятий. Работа является по существу первым в...
Материалы конференции, посвященной 40-летию секции истории судостроения: Сборник/ Сост. В.В. Козырь, под общ. редакц. проф. В.Л. Александрова. – СПб.: ОАО «ЦТСС», 2009. – 52 с., с. 39-46. Сопоставляя базовые понятия процедуры моделирования и истории, показано, что в определенной степени история (в большей степени история техники) близка к естественным наукам. Применение...
М.: Типография при императорском университете, 1764. — 136 с. О создании; человеке, Боге; вере; законах; науках и художествах; времени; космографии; географии; истории.
Springer, 2012. — 551 p.
The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest (1873-1961) invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading sound using light patterns. While he received many patents for his process, he was initially...
London: The Women’s Press, 1986. — 124 p. This work reaffirms women's substantial contributions to scientific knowledge throughout the ages, revisiting names such as Hypatia of Alexandra, astrologer and philosopher Hildegaard of Bingen, Lady Mary Montegu - who developed inoculation against smallpox, the chemist Marie Levoissier, Caroline Hershel - a renowned astrolomer, Ada...
Greenwood Press, 2005. — 267 p. — ISBN: 0–313–32314–3. Designed as an introduction to the age of the scientific revolution, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of narrative chapters, biographical sketches of key figures, and annotated primary documents. An overview of the period introduces the topic, and is followed by chapters on Astronomy and the Cosmos;...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 314 p. — ISBN: 9781474286169. The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19th-century European and North American attempts to understand the foundation of this process. In this book, William J....
Springer, 2005. — 228 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 11). The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present's point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by...
MIT Press, 2004. — 358 p.
Nineteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of periodical literature, with the publication of over 100,000 different magazines and newspapers for a growing market of eager readers. The Victorian periodical press became an important medium for the dissemination of scientific ideas. Every major scientific advance in the nineteenth century was trumpeted...
Springer, 2023. — 628 p. This book aims to perform a critical and broad assessment of the historiography of science produced from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It presents its main authors, concepts, ideas, conceptions, and schools. It also analyzes the historical circumstances of the rise of the discipline history of science and the relations...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 320 p. — (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). — ISBN: 9781421421230. Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine—the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins...
Profile Books Ltd, 2008. XVIII, 270 p. — ISBN: 978-1-86197-306-1. The first proper global account of the place of technology in twentieth century history, this brilliant, thought-provoking book will radically revise our understanding of the relationship between technology and society. Whereas standard histories of technology give tired old accounts of the usual inventions -...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 824 p. The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study science like a historian, Ofer Gal covers everything from Pythagorean...
University of Minnesota Press, 2016. — 347 p. — (Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science. Volume 20). — ISBN 9780816699506, 081669950X. Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological integration of mathematics and natural...
Smithsonian Books, 2007. — 480 p. — ISBN 9781588345271, 1588345270. In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 275 p.
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the umbrella-footed monsters and...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 280 pp. Surviving the Swastika examines scientific research under National Socialism through the prism of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of the Sciences, a semi-private umbrella organization which founded and maintained institutes for basic scientific research. Home to over twenty Nobel-prize winning scientists, the prestigious...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 692 p. A Companion to the History of American Science offers a collection of essays that give an authoritative overview of the most recent scholarship on the history of American science. Introduction (by Georgina M. Montgomery and Mark A. Largent). Disciplines Agricultural Sciences (by Samantha Noll). Anthropology (by Adrian Young). Astronomy and...
Revised end Expanded edition. — The MIT Press, 2021. — 356 p. — ISBN 9780262366281, 0262366282. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a...
Joseph Henry Press, 2002, 247 p. ISBN: 0-309-07641-2. Early theorists believed that in science lay the promise of certainty. Built on a foundation of fact and constructed with objective and trustworthy tools, science produced knowledge. But science has also shown us that this knowledge will always be fundamentally incomplete and that a true understanding of the world is...
NY: Belknap Press, 2012. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-06584-0. When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 416 p. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 584 pp. This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing vital...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 344 p. In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everything from steelmaking to singing. In Technology: Critical History of a Concept , Eric...
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969. - 130 p.
Describes many of the inventions that originated in ancient China and are still important today–gunpowder, kites, magnetic compasses, paper, and many others.
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 870 p. This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date non-disciplinary history of modern...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 364 p. During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. Yet as Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s Demon reveals, most of the methodological values underlying...
Routledge, 2023. — 256 p. A History of Western Science: The Basics offers a short introduction to the history of Western science that is accessible to all through avoiding technical language and mathematical intricacies. A coherent narrative of how science developed in interaction with society over time is also provided in this comprehensive guide. The first part discusses the...
London: Pen & Sword Books, 2019. — 177 p. In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed from being a rather obscure and little-known subgenre of science fiction into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has its roots and in this book Simon Webb explores and examines the real inventions which...
Отв. ред. Г.А. Князев; редакция и вводная статья Т.П. Кравца. — М.; Л.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1949. — 510 с. — (Труды Архива Академии Наук СССР; Вып. 7). Выпуск 7-ой "Трудов" Архива Академии Наук СССР содержит материалы архива семьи Ниепс, представляющие собой обширную и в основной своей части неопубликованную переписку между Дагерром и Ниепсом и другими лицами, а также некоторые...
Учебное пособие. — Краматорск : ДГМА, 2010. — 188 с. — ISBN: 978-966-379-442-6. В данном пособии изложены сведения о развитии доинженерной и инженерной деятельности с древнейших времён до настоящего времени, истории техники, о законах её построения и развития. Отдельно приведены материалы по развитию инженерной мысли в современной Украине. Рассмотрены структура и функции...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 279 с. В книге впервые дан общий обзор основных вех в развитии естественнонаучных знаний от палеолита до античности. Показано место мифа, ритуала и его участников в фиксировании «преднаучных» мифических и рациональных представлений. В центре внимания авторов — проблемы перехода от донаучного знания к формированию науки как одной из форм освоения...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 200 p. — (How Things Worked). — ISBN: 1421413574. Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that...
University of Minnesota Press, 1983. — 342 p. Mathematician Henri Poincaré was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidian geometry were just those he needed in his research on the theory of functions. He did not have to interrupt his conversation, still less to verify the equation in detail; his insight was complete at that point. Poincaré’s...
Templeton Press, 2009. — 320 p. From time to time, the diligent science student huddled over dense volumes of research findings and highly technical data will stumble upon a truly rare treasure: the author’s answer to the question of, Why? Why did the authors of these volumes commit themselves so ardently to life in the laboratory? What was it that motivated them to keep their...
NY: National Geographic, 2009. — 304 p. — ISBN 978-1-426-20420-3. Sometime about 30,000 years ago, somebody stuck a sharp rock into a split stick—and presto! The axe was born. Our inquisitive species just loves tinkering, testing, and pushing the limits, and this delightfully different book is a freewheeling reference to hundreds of customs, notions, and inventions that reflect...
London: Bloomsbury, 2018. — 257 p. Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have emerged, and allows designers to deepen their...
The Edwin Mellen Press. Ltd., USA, 2013. — 392 p. — ISBN: 0773445374. This volume brings together a surprising number of scholars from different disciplines who all contribute to the plethora of insights that lead to early nineteenth century science in Germany. Many books have looked at early nineteenth century science through the lens of the whole of Europe. This book takes a...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 202 p. — (History of Mechanism and Machine Science vol. 35). — ISBN: 9783319956053, 3319956051. The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science, transforming technology into the scientific...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. — 340 p. In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 157 p. Elisabeth Crawford's study departs from the commonly held notion that universalism and internationalism are inherent features of science. Showing how the rise of scientific organizations around the turn of the century had centered on national scientific enterprises, Dr. Crawford argues that scientific activities of the late-nineteenth...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 454 p. The greatest ambition of any moderately successful nineteenth-century French scientist was to become a member of the Academy of Sciences. Science under Control is the first major study, in any language, of this elite institution, in a period which began with such influential figures as Laplace and Cuvier and extends to the time of...
Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2010. — 337 p. — (Britannica guide to the world's most influential people). — ISBN 9781615300426, 1615300422. It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn't what you know, but who you know. The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get...
McFarland, 2010. — 237 p. — ISBN10: 0786458399, ISBN13: 9780786458394. Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This volume, the first in a roughly chronological series, explores the development of the methodology and major ideas of science, in historical context, from ancient times to the...
McFarland, 2012. — 329 p. — ISBN 9780786490868, 0786490861. This installment in a series on science and technology in world history begins in the fourteenth century, explaining the origin and nature of scientific methodology and the relation of science to religion, philosophy, military history, economics and technology. Specific topics covered include the Black Death, the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 432 p. — ISBN 9780199226894, 019922689X. In Science , Patricia Fara rewrites science's past to provide new ways of understanding and questioning our modern technological society. Sweeping through the centuries from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, Fara's book also ranges...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 333 p. In Baroque Science , Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that stemmed from the New Science and the intellectual compromises that shaped it and...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 161 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-24349-0. The Character of the Enlightement. Mathematics and the Exact Sciences. Experimental Physics. Chemistry. Natural History and Physiology. The Moral Sciences.
Emerald Publishing, 2018 – 460 p. — ISBN 9781787148345, 1787148343 This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand. Acceptance of driverless cars relies on more than just the technology that delivers it; in this book the authors consider the shift in attitudes required for social...
Routledge, 2019. — 253 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine). — ISBN 9780415784177. This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities--Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples--situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — xx, 1096 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1118372975. A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. - Brings a fresh...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 212 p. — ISBN: 0-674-01497-9. Newtonian Revolution. The Western Paradigm Decesively Shifts. Popular Audiences and Public Experiments. Practicality and Radicalism of Experiment. Puting Science to Work : European Strategy. Epilogue.
2nd ed. — Amherst: Humanity Books, 2005. — 186 p. — ISBN: 1-59102-321-1 This book considers how physicists, biologists, and engineers have fared in totalitarian regimes. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin relied on scientists and engineers to build the infrastructure of their states. The military power of their regimes was largely based on the discovery of physicists and...
Core Library, 2017. — 48 р. — ISBN: 1532111673. The Great Wall of China, built in many sections over many centuries, is China's best-known landmark. Engineering the Great Wall of China introduces readers to the dynasties that constructed it, explores the construction techniques that were used, and looks at how the modern Chinese government is working to protect it for the...
Brill, 2020. — 674 p. — (Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, Volume 6). — ISBN: 2019048174, 2019048175, 9789004414600, 9789004414617. List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Knowledge: the Debate between Faith and Reason in Late Antiquity (H. Inglebert). Science Teaching and Learning Methods in Byzantium (I. Pérez Martín, D. Manolova). Logistic,...
UK: Oxford University Press, 2018. — 347 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–880584–7. Galileo Unbound traces the history of dynamics that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a phase space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common...
NY: Vintage, 2004. — 279 p. — ISBN: 978-1-400-03293-8. Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry...
2nd edition. — Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2017. — xvii, 420 p. — (History of Mechanism and Machine Science 33). — ISBN: 9783319444765, 9783319444758. This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest...
Second edition. — London ; New York : Routledge, 2020. — 754 p. : 98 b/w illus. — (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World Series). In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology , the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic,...
Springer, 2003. - 353 pp. The idea behind this book grew out of a research project launched by the international group STEP (Science and Technology in the European Peripheries), established in 1999 by historians of science from Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Sweden and Denmark. The aim has been to re-examine the historical, and we might also add, the...
MIT Press Ltd, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-0-262-01938-5,0262019388,978-0-262-31675-0. In Made in the USA , Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong,...
Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. — 251 p. Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution...
Harvard University Press, 1986. — 410 p. This magnificent book is the first comprehensive history of statistics from its beginnings around 1700 to its emergence as a distinct and mature discipline around 1900. Stephen M. Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences including astronomy, geodesy,...
Cham: Springer, 2023. — 368 p. — ISBN 9783031113161, 3031113160. This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings,...
CRC Press, 2007. — 336 p. — (IAHR Monographs). — ISBN 978-90-78046-05-9. This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and its impact on the development of civilisation. A Second Edition and translation into English of the French book "L'Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes". Water professionals, engineers, scientists, and students...
Arcturus Digital Limited, 2021 — 208 p. — ISBN 9781839406706 In this stunning jacketed hardback, science writer Paul Virr introduces 50 of the world's most influential engineers of all time and a selection of their groundbreaking inventions, showcased with full-colour photography. Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon...
NY: Basic Books, 1995. — 325 p. — ISBN: 0306449412. In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultimately, on the pursuit of the German atomic bomb. Walker meticulously draws on hundreds of original documents to examine the role of German scientists in the rise and fall of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 171 p. — ISBN 9780521292955, 0521292956, 0521218632. This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the conviction that the cosmos was...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 388 p. The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. As a leading figure in the creation of the National Science Foundation, the organizer of the Manhattan Project, and an adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman during and after World War II, he...
Санкт-Петербургский государственный технологический университет растительных полимеров (СПбГТУРП). — СПб.: 2008. — 50 с. Учебное пособие содержит историю создания автоматизированных механизмов с точки зрения эволюции человека и развития промышленных форм. Цель настоящего учебного пособия научить студентов применять в проектировании опыт исторического развития механизмов и эволюции...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 212 с. В книге анализируется роль Джордано Бруно в подготовке классической науки и, в частности, в предыстории классического принципа относительности, первая отчетливая формулировка которого принадлежит, по мнению автора, Бруно. Пролог классической науки рассматривается в свете современной релятивистской физики. В этом отношении книга примыкает к серии...
М.; Л. : Главная редакция научно-популярной и юношеской литературы, 1936. — 103 с. Первые открытия в области электричества, электрохимия, электромагнетизм, план ГОЭРЛО - история развития электротехники.
М.: Наука, 1988. — 384 с. — (Наука. Мировоззрение. Жизнь). — ISBN: 5-02-005958-7. Как влияют на развитие науки социально-экономические и культурно-исторические условия; эволюция методов исследования, научных дискуссий? Каковы пути формирования научной теории? На эти и другие вопросы отвечает в своих очерках исследователь истории науки член-корреспондент АН СССР С. Р....
Препринт. — Свердловск: УрО АН СССР, 1989. — 53 с. Характеризуется материально-техническая база, население и трудовые ресурсы села, исследуется развитие земледелия и животноводства. Впервые приводятся обобщающие показатели состояния сельского хозяйства Уральского экономического района за 1946-1950 гг. Материалы рассчитаны на научных сотрудников, преподавателей и студентов вузов...
Учебное электронное издание — Саратов: Ай Пи Эр Медиа, 2019. — 150 с. — ISBN 978-5448607493, 5448607497. Новосибирский государственный университет архитектуры, дизайна и искусств. Учебное пособие представляет, систематизированно и в хронологическом порядке, основные этапы развития науки и техники с древнейших времен до конца XX века. Акцент в данном учебном пособии сделан на...
Курс лекций. — Краснодар : КубГАУ, 2015. — 60 с. Предназначен для аспирантов по направлению подготовки 04.06.01 – химические науки, 05.06.01 – науки о земле, 06.06.01– биологические науки, 35.06.01 – сельское хозяйство, 36.06.01 – ветеринария и зоотехния.
Учебное пособие. — Краснодар: Кубанский государственный аграрный университет имени И.Т. Трубилина, 2021. — 113 с. — ISBN 978-5-907430-14-3. В учебном пособии отражены основные вопросы развития науки, начиная с ранней античности и до наших дней. Дается хронология развития аграрных наук, в том числе ветеринарии, агрохимии, генетики и биотехнологии. Материалы пособия могут быть...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 416 p. When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop". He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's...
Springer, 2021. — 830 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-71392-8. Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 417 p. A comprehensive account of the methods of knowledge production throughout human history and across the globe. The idea that the world can be understood through patterns and the principles that govern them is one of the most important human insights - it may also be our greatest survival strategy. Our search for patterns...
Brill, 2007. — 625 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 153/3). Recent scholarship on the Anglo-Saxon prognostics has tried to place these texts within the realm of folklore and medicine, inspired largely by studies and editions from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By analysing prognostic material in its...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 301 p. For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern...
McFarland, 2010. — 277 p. — ISBN 9780786439324, 0786439327. Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the first in a roughly chronological series, explores the development of the methodology and major ideas of science, in historical context, from ancient times to the decline of...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN: 1107169437. This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Various fields of knowledge are discussed, including agriculture, architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine, and pharmacology. The main focus is on the interaction...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 256 p. Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Greek manuscripts into Arabic in eighth-century Baghdad, preserved...
Basel: Birkhäuser, 2022. — 441 p. — (Trends In The History Of Science). — ISBN 9783030978327, 303097832X. This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th century to...
Oxford University Press, 2010. - 505 pp. Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the emergence of such scientific values lies above all in their ability to...
Springer, 1999. — 224 pp. — (Archimedes, Vol. 2) The articles in this volume examine particular cases of 'reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several `centers' of European learning,...
Penguin Books, 2002. — 647 p. — ISBN 978-0-14-104222-0. The year 1543 is a watershed in the history of science. It was then that science as we understand it today was born. Until then, rhetoric, superstition, and fanciful speculation about the natural world ruled. In 1543 Copernicus published his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, in which he stated that the earth moved...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 291 p. This book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, London. The former capital of the British Empire, London remains a world center of trade, navigation, finance and many more. It is also a hub of...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 520 p. In their search for truth, contemporary religious believers and modern scientific investigators hold many values in common. But in their approaches, they express two fundamentally different conceptions of how to understand and represent the world. Michael E. Hobart looks for the origin of this difference in the work of Renaissance thinkers...
University of California Press, 2002. — 378 p. For centuries, observers have noted the many obstacles to intellectual change in science. In a much-discussed paper published in Scientific American in 1972, molecular biologist Gunther Stent proposed an explicit criterion for one kind of obstacle to scientific discovery. He denoted a claim or hypothesis as "premature" if its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 312 p. Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize. This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins. It elaborates that all premodern knowers faced inherent limits, and the West was able to develop modern science and technology because of its inherent contradictions...
Penn State University Press, 2018. — 184 p. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981. — 304 p. Acknowledgements. Science and its Social Context. Beliefs and Society. Survey. Eugenics in Britain. What is Eugenics? The Social Composition of the Eugenics Movement. The Professional and the Social Structure. The Professionals and the Eugenic Theory of Society. Eugenics and Capitalism. Eugenic Social Policies and the Twin...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. — 353 p. — ISBN 9780231160483, 0231160488. Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may...
London: New English Library, 1980. - 205 c. На английском языке. Отсканированный PDF. Первое издание вышло в 1977. Книга поднимает некоторые труднообьяснимые факты использования древними цивилизациями некоторых продвинутых технологий. An increasing number of historical and archaeological finds made around the world have been classified as "out-of-place artifacts" (ooparts)....
Springer, 2019. — 286 p. This lucid and captivating book takes the reader back to the early history of all the sciences, starting from antiquity and ending roughly at the time of Newton - covering the period which can legitimately be called the "dawn" of the sciences. Each of the 24 chapters focuses on a particular and significant development in the evolution of science, and is...
NY: Princeton University Press, 2006. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0691122250,0691122253. Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry...
NY: Vintage books, 1994. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-77305-0. How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch? In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but...
Campus Verlag, 2008. — 533 S. Deutschland ist Exportweltmeister – Produkte »Made in Germany« stehen nach wie vor für Qualität. Joachim Radkau zeigt in seinem einzigartigen Überblick über mehr als 200 Jahre deutscher Technikgeschichte, welche Rolle die Technik seit dem 18. Jahrhundert in der deutschen Gesellschaft, Kultur und Wirtschaft spielt. Technikgeschichte umfasst hier nicht...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. — 202 p. Sambursky describes the development of scientific conceptions and theories in the centuries following Aristotle until the close of antiquity in the sixth century A.D. Originally published in 1987.
Springer, 2018. — 282 p. — ISBN: 3319918117. How did science rise up to so dramatically change our world, and where will it take us in the future? This book gives a unique and broad overview. A brief history reveals the major phases and turning points in the rise of science from the earliest civilizations to the present: How was science ‘discovered’? Why did it disappear a few...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 176 p. Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom concerning nature - sought to explain the order and composition of the world, and how we come to know it. They were...
Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015. — 143 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78374-122-9, ISBN: 978-1-78374-123-6, ISBN: 978-1-78374-124-3. The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating...
University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 449 p. In the years immediately following Napoleon’s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 290 p. This book by Professor Walker is a full-scale examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. The book explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand, what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the German scientists...
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. — 392 p. No professional group in the United States benefited more from World War II than the scientific community. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists enjoyed unprecedented public visibility and political influence as a new elite whose expertise now seemed critical to America's future. But as...
The MIT Press, 2023. — 201 p. — ISBN 9780262374736. Вычислительный формализм: история искусств и машинное обучение How the use of Machine Learning to analyze art images has revived formalism in art history, presenting a golden opportunity for art historians and computer scientists to learn from one another. Though formalism is an essential tool for art historians, much recent...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 227 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-51154-2. This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs and images to build a comprehensive picture. Each looks at the developments, and the people who initiated them, together with how one led to the next and their...
М.: Политехнический музей, 2015. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-98962-035-7. Аннотированный указатель историко-технической литературы, вышедшей на русском языке в 1996–1998 гг., является продолжением ранее изданных 17 выпусков библиографического указателя литературы за 1946–1995 гг. В указателе приведены описания историко-технических книг с рецензиями на них, статей из журналов,...
Минск: ФУАинформ, 2010. — 416 с., [37] л. цв. вкл. ил.: ил. Данная книга — попытка собрать в единый целостный образ разбросанные в документах по архивам и библиотекам части представлений наших предков о мире и о себе. Цель данной работы — ознакомить читателя с малоизученными документами, которые попадались автору в архивах и библиотеках и сформировали у него представление о...
С прил. статьи Ш. Рюелля, П. Таннери, С. Рейнаке ; Пер. С. П. Кондратьева под ред. и с пред. А. П. Юшкевича. — Москва; Ленинград : Онти. Глав. ред. общетехн. лит-ры и номографии, 1936. — Обл., 195 с. : черт. Книга составлена из нескольких работ, посвященных истории греческой и римской науки. Центральное место в ней занимает сочинение И.Л. Гейберга с обзором литературы и...
Алматы: Ғылым, 1989. — 162 б. Қазақстан ғалымдарының биобиблиографияларының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш академик Қаныш Имантайұлы Сәтбаевқа арналған.
Навчально-методичний посібник. — Чернівці: Чернівецький національний університет, 2011. — 176 с. У навчально-методичному посібнику подано матеріал із курсу "Історія науки і техніки". Посібник містить також методичні рекомендації для підготовки до семінарських занять, організації самостійної роботи студентів згідно з вимогами кредитно-модульної системи. Для студентів вищих...
Перевод с немецкого С.А. Алексеева. — Москва: Государственное издательство, 1924. — 164 с. — (Природа и культура. Книга 6). Введение. Представления о материи у древних культурных народов. Алхимия. Исследование материи становится наукой. Первый период количественных исследований. Наука о материи в конце XIX века. Новейшие открытия. Приложение: Э. Резерфорд. Электрическая природа...
Москва: Знание, 1973. — 128 с. — (Творцы науки и техники). «Преемники Архимеда» - так автор книги называет изобретателей-ученых, в творчестве которых отразились заветы великого грека, равно сильного и в абстрактной науке, и в практическом инженерном ремесле. Книгу очерков о Д. Менделееве, В. Шухове, Э. Томсоне, лорде Кельвине и Р. Дизеле автор строит так, чтобы по прочтении ее...
Монография. Под общей редакцией проф. Посвятенко Э.К. — Харьков: НТУ "ХПИ", 2015. — 272 с. На украинском языке. Монография посвящена исследованию развития прикладных технических наук в Украине в первой половине XX в. Освещен вклад и уточнены исторические факты деятельности отдельных специалистов, которые работали в Харьковском технологическом, а впоследствии политехническом...
Перевод с английского под редакцией профессора физики в Харьковском университете А.И. Шимкова — Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Черкесов, 1871. — 193 с., 89 ил. Язык русский дореформенный. Перед читателем - книга английского физика и популяризатора науки, одного из основоположников занимательной физики Джона Тиндаля. В книге подробно и на основе простых примеров описываются...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 248 p. This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not just reflect but also moulded global order and disorder by informing public policies and discourse. Ranging from early modern European empires...
Springer, 2005. — 248 p. The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised today. In early modern Europe the central category for...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1984. — 352 p. — ISBN 978-0333352687, 0333352688. This book presents to electrical and electronics engineers, technicians, and students ( or anyone interested in the development of technology) an easily digestible account of the development of their discipline. This history is known to those specialists, the historians of science and technology, whose job it...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. — 107 p. This little book has been written at the suggestion of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning. That body was the successor of the Academic Assistance Council which was formed in 1933 by heads of British Universities and learned Societies to assist scholars and scientists and investigators "who, on grounds of religion,...
Springer, 2017. — 310 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 52). The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature , Transforming Matter , Science and the Canadian Arctic , Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere’s...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 272 p. — (Columbia Studies In International And Global History). — ISBN: 9780231540612. In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the...
The Macmillan Company, 1959. — 261 p. The Historical Importance of a Theory of Impetus. The Conservatism of Copernicus. The Study of the Heart down to William Harvey. The Downfall of Aristotle and Ptolemy. The Experimental Method in the Seventeenth Century. Bacon and Descartes. The Effect of the Scientific Revolution on the Non-Mechanical Sciences. The History of the Modern...
1st edition. — Arcler Press, 2023. 412 p. — ISBN 1774693879. Science and technology (S&T) is broadly acknowledged as an essential tool for promoting and strengthening a nation's socioeconomic development. This volume discusses significant advances in various fields of science and technology over the years, including a knowledgeable workforce and promoting innovative...
Springer, 2020. — 601 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-43134-1. The development of science has been an ideological struggle that lasted over three millennia. At and after the times of the Babylonian Empire, however, the pace of scientific evolution was painfully slow. This situation changed after Copernicus kick-started the Scientific Revolution with his heliocentric theory. Newton’s law...
Hong Kong University Press, 1996. — 300 p. This book re-examines the nature of early Chinese work in natural science, on the basis of original records analysis and artifacts discovered in recent decades by archaeological explorations of China's past. Early Chinese work on physics of motion. Early Chinese work on acoustics. Early Chinese work in astronomy. Early scientific ideas...
Ivy Press, 2019. — 272 p. — (Liber Historica). — ISBN 9781782408789, 1782408789. Scientifica Historica is an illustrated, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from ancient civilizations to the new millennium. The book is divided into five eras and explores the leading scientific pioneers, discoveries and books within them: Ancient World –...
WH Allen, 2024. — 512 p. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted.In Material World, Ed Conway travels...
Rosen Publishing Group, 2010 — 386 p. — (Turning points in history). — ISBN13: 9781615300204 The intrinsic quality of an invention is that it changes the status quo. The innovations highlighted in this book have done so in a most dramatic, memorable, or effective fashion. Through engaging narrative and accompanying images, this volume gives readers a deeper appreciation for the...
New York: Zone Books, 1998. — 511 pp. A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision...
Taylor & Francis, 1995. - 322 pp. This text celebrates, in four volumes, the bicentenary of the "Philosophical Magazine" and chronicles the history of scientific development as chonicled in its pages. Each volume previews a 50 year period and contains not only classical works but also papers of an amusing controversial nature. Commentaries preceding each part set the papers in...
Apollo, 2022. — 282 p. — ISBN 9781838937874, 1838937870. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and...
Springer, 2012. — 352 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 29). — ISBN 9789400721258, 9400721250. In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton's methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize...
Springer, 2009. — 273 p. — (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science) The texts of Boris Hessen and Henryk Grossmann assembled in this volume are important contributions to the historiography of the Scientific Revolution and to the methodology of the historiography of science. They are of course also historical documents, not only testifying to Marxist discourse...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 383 p. How do we objectively measure scientific activities? What proportion of economic activities should a society devote to research and development? How can public-sector and private-sector research best be directed to achieve social goals? Governments and researchers from industrial countries have been measuring science and technology for more...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. — 352 p. Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored...
New York: Routlegde, 2005. — 360 p. Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative,...
The MIT Press, 2003 — 408 p. — ISBN10: 026251916X / ISBN13: 978-0262519168 Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most important centers for the study of what we now call "the exact sciences"―including the mathematical sciences of arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry and their applications in such fields as astronomy, astrology, geography, cartography, and optics―were not in Europe...
London: Routledge, 2022. — 245 p. First published in 1962 The Origins of Science tries to explain scientific thought from its historical and psychological origins. The depth of psychology of today rather than traditional epistemology is needed in order to understand the problems of knowledge. Reality is the first problem of the scientist; it is exemplified by the idea of...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. — б/п. With essays introducing, surveying, summarizing, and analyzing the many sciences of the classical world, readers are invited to study these fascinating disciplines, and in many cases offer new interpretations and syntheses. There is a brief section on Greek science of the 6th through 4th centuries BCE, then a long section on Greek...
New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003. — 380 p. Celebrating a century of revolutionary contributions to our understanding of life, the world, and the universe, this encyclopedic desk reference traces the discoveries that earned nearly 500 distinguished scientists Nobel honors in the areas of chemistry, physics, and medicine. The School of Library Journal called it "...eye-catching......
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. — 499 p. Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. — 302 p. The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the...
Boydell Press, 2024. — 272 p. The first full edition and English translation of the RA I.34 Firework Book. Produced from the early fifteenth century onwards, Firework Books are, broadly speaking, manuals on how to use gunpowder, witnessing a major development in warfare. Surviving in a corpus of some 65, each text has different content and components, but core elements are...
Springer, 2020. — 243 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-55168-1. Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories. Collected here are twenty-six among the most enchanting tales, one for each letter of the alphabet: the main characters are scientists of the highest caliber most of whom, however, are unknown to the general public....
NY: Vintage, 1998. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-77320-3. From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the...
MIT Press, 2005. - 490 pp. The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines—including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and philology—indicates how closely intertwined these scholarly pursuits...
Lanham, Boulder: Lexington Books, 2014. — 266 p. — ISBN10: 0739188534; ISBN13: 978-0739188538. In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers. It is for this reason that Plato devoted his dialogues Theatetus and Parmenides to investigating and meeting the arguments of his principal philosophical...
University of Chicago Press, 1996. — 256 p. “There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview. “Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity...This is not to attack...
New York: New York Review of Books, 1995. — 193 p. — ISBN10: 094032203X; ISBN13: 978-0940322035 In this collection of original essays, five world-renowned writers explore forgotten and neglected aspects of the history of science. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles show how some scientific ideas emerge with great promise, only to be dismissed or forgotten, and...
Springer, 2015. — 393 p. This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of science, of the different ways universities dealt with the institutionalization of science teaching and research. A useful book for understanding the deep changes...
New York: Facts On File, Inc, 2004. — 257 p.
Examining the scientific ideas developed by the early Greek philosophers, the developments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and the momentous discoveries of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, this volume looks at the early years of scientific thought and discovery. Covering figures as well known as Aristotle and...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 320 p. — (The Life of Ideas) A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe...
Cornell University Press, 2006. — 230 p. Descartes believed that his analytic model applied to all fields of research and that all branches of science lead to truth. His many analogies with literature and art notwithstanding, Descartes offers an entry into knowledge that fails nevertheless to take into account how in the seventeenth century Dutch painters such as Vermeer...
University of Texas Press; fourth illustrated edition, 2006. — 262 p. — ISBN-10 0292781490 / ISBN-13 978-0292781498. During the Golden Age of Islam (seventh through seventeenth centuries A.D.), Muslim philosophers and poets, artists and scientists, princes and laborers created a unique culture that has influenced societies on every continent. This book offers a fully...
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. — 382 p. — ISBN: 0-393-04641-9. Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technology goes...
The Great Courses, 2013. — 273 p. We’re surrounded by inventions. Consider the clocks, appliances, and transportation that coordinate our days. Or the televisions, cell phones, and social media that connect us to each other. And the shopping malls, department stores, and catalogs that define the modern retailing experience.
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 232 p. — (New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine). From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He describes a time when witches...
London: John W. Parker and son, West Strand, 1858. — 386 p. The Chapters now offered to the Reader were formerly published as a portion of The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, founded upon their History, but the nature and subject of these Chapters are more exactly described by the present title, The History of Scientific Ideas. For this part of the work is mainly historical,...
London: John W. Parker and son, West Strand, 1858. — 324 p. The controversies to which the exact fixation of these Ideas and their properties have given occasion form a large and essential part of the History of Science: but they also form an important part of the Philosophy of Science, for no Philosophy of Science can be complete which does not solve the difficulties, antitheses,...
Henry Holt And Co., 2019. — 198 p.— ISBN 9781250120168. The spellbinding true account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity. In the mid-to-late-nineteenth century, a burgeoning science called electricity promised to shine new light on a rousing nation. Inventive and ambitious minds were hard at work. Soon that spark was fanned, and a fiery war was...
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1984. — 68 с. Қазақстан ғылымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш Қазақ ССР Ғылым академиясының академигі, филология ғылымдарының докторы, профессор, Қазақ ССР-інің еңбек сіңірген ғылым қайраткері, көрнекті ғалым, археолог, этнограф, шығыстанушы, тарихшы, әдебиетші Әлкей Хаканұлы Марғұланға арналған.
М.: АН СССР, 1955. — 424 с. В настоящем издании освещены наиболее значительные исследования Жоффруа, которые способствовали утверждению в науке одного из наиболее плодотворных общетеоретических обобщений биологии — учения о единстве строения, животных. Это учение, материалистически истолкованное, вошло составной частью в современное учение о единстве происхождения и развития...
Учебное пособие. — Владимир: ВлГУ, 2005. — 263 с. В настоящем пособии рассматривается развитие, совершенствование и техническое воплощение основной идеи механики — идеи обеспечения движения. Пособие предназначено студентам технических специальностей, изучающим курс «История развития науки и техники». Введение. Неуправляемое движение. Стрела и камень. Порох. Средства...
Редакционная коллегия: Александров А. Я., Гуревич Ш. И. (отв. секретарь) и др. — Комиссия марксистской истории техники при КВТО ЦИК СССР. — Москва; Ленинград: ОНТИ НКТП СССР, 1936. — 295 с. Общетеоретический отдел . В. Данилевский. История техники как фактор технического прогресса. Л. Фрадкин. Историческая эволюция первого начала термодинамики. Итоги и перспективы технической...
М.: Соцэгиз,1958. — 560 с. В книге прослежено открытие периодического закона, которое было сделано Д.И.Менделеевым, в том числе анализируются архивные документы. Предисловие. Фактический ход открытия 17 февраля 1869 г. (Историческое изложение). Накануне дня открытия («Основы химии» и сыроварни). Как шла подготовка открытия периодического закона (Работа над «Основами химии» в...
М.; Л: ОНТИ, 1937. — 256 с. Марксистская история техники как раз то звено, которое необходимо для всей нашей исторической науки. Понимаемая в широком смысле слова как критическая история технологии, как история человеческого труда, эта новая историческая дисциплина подготавливает фундамент для всех исторических наук. История техники в состоянии мобилизовать опыт прошлого для...
Том 5: Зачатки техники. Исследование сил природы. Применение сил природы в домашнем быту. Влияние культуры на здоровье человека. Заключение. — СПб.: Просвещение, 1908. — xii, 466 с. С. 1—232. Пятитомное издание «Вселенная и человечество», впервые увидевшее свет в начале 1900-х гг. в Германии, сразу же завоевало любовь читателей и восторженные отзывы критики. Книга написана...
Учебник. — Харьков: НТУ «ХПИ», 2018. — 285 с. Учебник предназначен для студентов машиностроительных специальностей технических вузов, изучающих курс истории науки и техники. Но в то же время он может быть также полезен студентам других специальностей, научным сотрудникам, аспирантам, и всем тем, кто интересуется историей развития науки и техники.
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. — 244 с. «Фей-Фей Ли - один из ученых, ответственных за рождение самой обсуждаемой сегодня науки, искусственного интеллекта. В книге она дает лучшее объяснение ИИ, которое я когда-либо читала, и одновременно рассказывает о своем собственном американском пути молодой иммигрантки, которая нашла...
Учебное пособие. — СПб. : Изд-во СПбГЭТУ «ЛЭТИ», 2016. — 120 с. Содержит обзор исторического развития науки и техники автоматического управления и связанных с ними разделов электротехники, электромеханики, электроники и вычислительной техники с древности до середины XX столетия.
Практические работы для студентов специальности «Технология. Дополнительная специальность». — Минск: БНТУ, 2012. — 29 с.
В данном издании содержится материал для проведения практических занятий по дисциплине «История техники», включающий темы рефератов, задачи, справочные материалы и рекомендации по проведению занятий.
Предназначено для студентов инженерно-педагогического...
Учебное пособие. — Харьков: Харьковский политехнический институт (ХПИ), 2019. — 226 с. — ISBN: 978-617-05-0282-7. В учебном пособии рассмотрены основные этапы развития электротехники и электроники, автоматики, вычислительной техники. Приведены сведения о наиболее выдающихся изобретениях в этих областях: биографии известных исследователей. Книга может использоваться в качестве...
London: UCL Press, 2020. — 304 p. Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. — 351 p. There have been many-too many-attempts over the centuries to bring science and religion into harmony. James A. Arieti and Patrick A. Wilson survey and assess these various efforts, from Plato to Aquinas to present-day philosophers and theologians. The Scientific & The Divine examines the perennial issues that keep science and...
Penguin Adult, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN 9780141957685, 0141957689. The Nature of Technology will change the way you think about this fundamental subject forever. W. Brian Arthur's many years of thinking and writing about technology have culminated in a unique understanding of his subject. Here he examines the nature of technology itself: what is it and how does it evolve? Giving...
Jointly by Sandia Corporation and the Authors, 2017. — 676 p. — (Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena) — ISBN: 3319333453. This book presents a history of shock compression science, including development of experimental, material modeling, and hydrodynamics code technologies over the past six decades at Sandia National Laboratories. The book is organized into a discussion of...
Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 161 p. — ISBN: 9783319435725. От Химии до Сознания. This book reflects on the significant and highly original scientific contributions of Hans Primas. A professor of chemistry at ETH Zurich from 1962 to 1995, Primas continued his research activities until his death in 2014. Over these 50 years and more, he worked on the foundations of...
World Scientific Publishing, 2022. — 292 p. — (A World Scientific Encyclopedia of the Development and History of Materials Science) — ISBN 9811251746, 9811251746. This volume opens the readers' eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 184 p. It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way from the geocentric theories of Claudius Ptolemy in the second century AD to the heliocentric breakthroughs of Nicholas Copernicus and Johannes Kepler in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Algebra, the Arabic...
New York: Pan Books, 2010. — 209 p. When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he know that he was about to become the test subject in an experiment to determine what happens to an elephant given a massive dose of LSD. In Elephants on Acid, Alex Boese reveals to readers the results of not only this scientific...
Springer, 2012. — 458 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 30). — ISBN 10 9400726260, ISBN 13 9789400726260. New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders. Charles Gillispie Publications by Charles Coulston Gillispie. A Professional Life in the History of Science (by Charles Coulston...
Frank Cass & Co., 1971. — 235 p. Forty years ago this year, the IInd International Congress of the History of Science and Technology was held in London. The Congress of 1931 was overshadowed by the world-wide crisis. It could easily have passed unnoticed, yet it was destined to become a milestone in the historiography of science, and to make a profound and indelible impression...
Arcturus Holdings Limited, 2022. — 383 p. — ISBN 978-1789502343, 1789502349. To be human is to wonder. There is very little that science does not seek to explore and define. The impulse to ask questions is hardwired into our DNA, and for three hundred millennia people have been searching for answers. In An Illustrated History of Science, Mary Cruse takes readers on a...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 389 p. Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge....
Manchester: Spear&Jackson Limited, 1961. —77 p. More than half a million years ago, man took a tremendous step. That step helped to distinguish him forever from the less intelligent and unselfconscious animal world: he began to make hand tools. Because they were of such great antiquity, many of our familiar hand tools had already attained a late stage of development in classical...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 442 p. Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as...
London: Routledge, 1996. — 288 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) — ISBN-10: 3718657929; ISBN-13: 978-3718657926. Technological Change gathers together examples of the best current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting...
Springer, 2000. — 404 p. For the history of science, 1543 is - by virtue of general consent and plain historiographical logic alike - the veritable annus mirabilis of the sixteenth century. It is not simply the fact that Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium eoelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ) and Vesalius' De humani eorporis fabriea ( On the Fabrie of the...
UCL Press, 2022. — 664 p. Modern scientific research has changed so much since Isaac Newton’s day: it is more professional, collaborative and international, with more complicated equipment and a more diverse community of researchers. Yet the use of scientific journals to report, share and store results is a thread that runs through the history of science from Newton’s day to...
Springer, 2013. — 308 p. — (International Archives of the History of Idea 208).
This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 412 p. Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated through integration into and shaping of...
New York: Prometheus Books, 2019. — 361 p. — ISBN: 9781633885790. A leading technology expert examines ways to manage the rapid proliferation of technology and come to grips with its pervasive influence. Technology—always a key driver of historical change—is transforming society as never before and at a far more rapid pace. This book takes the reader on a journey into what the...
Routledge, 2021. — 339 p. The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire introduces readers to important new research in the field of science and empire. This compilation of inquiry into the inextricably intertwined history of science and empire reframes the field, showing that one could not have grown without the other. The volume expands the history of science through careful...
Springer, 2023. — 300 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology). — ISBN 9783031228131. Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004. — 348 p. — ISBN 9781860944338, 1860944337. Introduction to Engineering; History of Engineering; Contemporary Context of Engineering. Engineering represents an ordered activity of creative design and inventive manufacture of ingenious devices. Its practitioners have thereby stimulated individuals, enlivened communities, enriched...
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 416 pp. When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental...
Schweizerbart Science Publishers, 2014. — 578 p. By stressing the congruence between cooking ceramics and tableware, and food and its consumption, this book offers a completely new view on ceramic science. It provides an interdisciplinary approach by linking ceramic science and engineering, archaeology, art history, and lifestyle. The selection of ceramic objects by the authors...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 368 p. Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2005. — 308 p. As an academic discipline, the philosophy and history of science in Turkey was marked by two historical events: Hans Reichenbach's immigrating to Turkey and taking a post between 1933 and 1938 at Istanbul University prior to his tenure at UCLA, and Aydin Sayili's establishing a chair in the history of science in 1952 after having...
Springer, 2023. — 221 p. Although women participated in shaping scientific thinking from the outset, they very rarely became visible. This imbalance continues today, although there are currently more female scientists than ever before. Lars Jaeger spans an arc from antiquity to the present day and portrays the lives and work of the most important female scientists and...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 519 p. The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the...
Chantilly: Teaching Co, 2003. — 92 p. In twenty-four lectures (each 30 minutes in length), Professor Alan Charles Kors focuses on the revolution of the intellect that seized Europe between 1600 and 1800, a revolution whose lights and shadows are all around us still. This course consolidates and enhances material from two of Professor Kors's earlier courses, The origin of the...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 408 p. — ISBN 9780226605999, 022660599X. Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational movement of knowledge is a social accomplishment,...
Sharpe Reference, 2007. — 1046 p. — ISBN: 0765680734. This encyclopedia is an overview of the history of science in America from colonial times to the present. Organized alphabetically within scientific discipline, the set is divided into fourteen sections that include overview essays tracing the historical development of the specific discipline in a cultural and social...
Routledge, 2021. — 520 p. This is a study of science in Muslim society from its rise in the 8th century to the efforts of 19th-century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regain the lost ethos that had given birth to the rich scientific heritage of earlier Muslim civilization. The volume is organized in four parts; the rise of science in Muslim society in its historical setting of...
Future Publishing Limited, 2018. — 148 p. — (All About History). — ISBN 9781783897483, 1783897481. The Age of Enlightenment changed the face of Europe. From art and architecture to politics and revolution, nothing was left untouched. New philosophies swept across the continent, calling religion and life into question, while women like Mary Wollstonecraft finally had the...
3d edition revised and updated. — The Johns Hopkins Uiversity Press, Baltimore, 2016. — 552 p. — ISBN 9781421417769, 1421417766. Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn’s bestselling book argues that technology as «applied science» emerged relatively recently,...
Wiley, 2006. — 209 p. — ISBN: 078799488X, 9780787994884. AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 229 p. How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research...
3rd Edition. - Montland Books, 2020. — 496 p. — ISBN 978-0-9959174-9-1. This book has helped high school and college students to understand the science of physics, but it also helped intelligent adults to understand what scientists do and how science works. It describes the evolution of the science of Physics from the human perspective: biographical sketches, stories of...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 498 p. Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European...
Smithsonian Books, 2010. — 240 p. This is the enigmatic story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution, and classification of species along the way. Secretive, elusive, and beguiling, the platypus has continued to captivate public and scientific attention to the present day. When the first platypus...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2000. — 194 p. Nature has secrets, and it is the desire to uncover them that motivates the scientific quest. But what makes these "secrets" secret? Is it that they are beyond human ken? that they concern divine matters? And if they are accessible to human seeking, why do they seem so carefully hidden? Such questions are at the heart of Peter Pesic's...
NY: Cambridge University Press 1994. — 220 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-46649-3. From classical temples to twentieth century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than from success. The concept of error, according to the author of Design Paradigms , is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, Henry...
NY: Vintage Books, 1996. — 627 p. — ISBN: 978-0679760214, 0679760210. Petroski reveals the science and engineering-not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic-behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St....
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 1421421771, 978-1421421773. — 289 p. In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 320 p. Hero of Alexandria was a figure of great importance not only for ancient technology but also for the medieval and early modern traditions that drew on his work. In this book Courtney Roby presents Hero's key strategies for developing, solving, and contextualizing technical problems, not only in his own lifetime but as an influential...
Britannica Educational Pub., 2015. — 112 p. While the medieval period is often written off as a backward and benighted era, it was, in fact, marked by advances in wind and water power, agriculture, navigation, timekeeping, and military technology. The invention of the printing press near the end of the Middle Ages ushered in the early modern period. The achievements of this era...
Akademiai Kiado, 2002. — 217 p. Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis in 1332 and died in Cairo in 1406. He is the most significant social scientist of Classical Islam, and his work has preserved its message and timeliness until our times. The society he ingeniously described has remained familiar to posterity due to the survival of several elements of patrimonial empire in the Middle...
Wiley, 2013. — 243 p. — ISBN 9781119942535, 1119942535. How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has...
2d ed. — Wiley, 2023. — 320 p. — ISBN 9781394181209, 1394181205. World-renowned scientist Vaclav Smil examines a critical topic in the research and policy domain of sustainable resource use. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. — 368 p. — (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact). — ISBN 9780195168754, 0195168755. This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th...
Ashgate, 2007. — 270 p.
Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today’s publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the production of science. Not least is the realization that the role of science in culture is much more...
Springer Netherlands, 2002. — 226 p. — ISBN 9789401039376,9789401005876. The title of our book would lead the reader to believe that in speaking of the changing image of the sciences, we are taking for granted the multiplicity of sciences, as these are practiced, for instance, in modern universities. That was, of course, not always the case. Although we can point to some...
Monograph. — Essex, Connecticut: Prometheus Books, 2023. — XVIII, 198 p. If we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milestones of Science is a collection of the most important and impressive breakthroughs in the history of science – as well as the scientists behind him – from the ancient world to what the...
Springer, 2014. — 278 p. This book presents a comprehensive history of the many contributions the Jesuits made to science from their founding to the present. It also links the Jesuits dedication to science with their specific spirituality which tries to find God in all things. The book begins with Christopher Clavius, professor of mathematics in the Roman College between 1567 and...
Reidel, 1986. — 250 p. This collection is the first proceedings volume of the lectures delivered within the framework of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, in its year of inauguration 1981-82. It thus marks the beginning of a new venture. Rather than attempting to express an ideology of the unity of science, this collection in fact aims...
Springer, 2017. — 340 p. – ISBN: 978-3-319-64315-1. This book traces the evolution of our understanding and utilization of light from classical antiquity and the early thoughts of Pythagoras to the present time. From the earliest recorded theories and experiments to the latest applications in photonic communication and computation, the ways in which light has been put to use...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 428 p. This seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s. It argues that German scientists, lacking in this period a formal empire of their...
Harper Perennial, 2002. — 864 p. — ISBN 978-0060084387, 0060084383. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 315 p. If the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 272 p. The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science , Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation...
Учебник для энергетических и электротехнических вузов и факультетов. — Москва; Ленинград: Госэнергоиздат, 1956. — 473 с. В книге излагается история развития техники, главным образом гидроэнергетики, теплоэнергетики и электроэнергетики в России и за рубежом с древнейших времен до начала XX века. Книга предназначена для студентов втузов и для инженерно-технических работников....
2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Барнаул: АлтГПА, 2011. — 64 с. Издание содержит информацию об истории возникновения Нобелевской премии и о процедуре выдвижения и награждения лауреатов. Вторая часть содержит биографические материалы о российских физиках, удостоенных Нобелевских премий. предназначена для студентов, изучающих курс «История науки», преподавателей физических и...
Киров: Изд-во ВятГГУ, 2009. — 256 с. В монографии прослеживаются основные линии развития естествознания. Здесь представлены важнейшие открытия и гипотезы, появившиеся в астрономии, физике, химии, зоологии и медицине с древних времен до наших дней. Книга может быть использована студентами, изучающими дисциплины «История науки» и «Концепции современного естествознания»....
Ташкент: Extremum press, 2016. — 269 c. — ISBN 978-9943-4858-9-1. Настоящая монография выполнена в рамках государственного гранта А-1-190, направленного на исследование вопроса об активном участии древнетюркских народов в развитии оседлоземледельческой и городской культуры в Центральноазиатском регионе наряду с ведением кочевого животноводческого типа хозяйства и номадической...
Л.: Наука, 1970. — 465 с. В книге освещается естественнонаучная деятельность Гёте. Приводится биография Гёте-натуралиста и характеризуются важнейшие направления его научных исследований: морфология растений и животных, психофизиология цветового зрения, метеорология и геология с минералогией. В истории науки Гёте был крупной творческой фигурой.
Том 5: Зачатки техники. Исследование сил природы. Применение сил природы в домашнем быту. Влияние культуры на здоровье человека. Заключение. — СПб.: Просвещение, 1908. — xii, 466 с. С. 233—466. Пятитомное издание «Вселенная и человечество», впервые увидевшее свет в начале 1900-х гг. в Германии, сразу же завоевало любовь читателей и восторженные отзывы критики. Книга написана...
Учебник. — Харьков: ФЛП Панов А.Н., 2019. — 288 с. Учебник предназначен для студентов машиностроительных специальностей технических вузов, изучающих курс истории науки и техники. Но в то же время он может быть также полезен студентам других специальностей, научным сотрудникам, аспирантам, и всем тем, кто интересуется историей развития науки и техники.
Харьков : НТУ «ХПИ», 2017. — 338 с. Учебное пособие предназначено в первую очередь для студентов инженерно-физического факультета НТУ «ХПИ», изучающих курс истории науки и техники. Поэтому, наряду с материалом по общей истории науки и техники, оно содержит главы, посвященные истории математики и механики, а также тех видов техники, которые представляют интерес для данного...
Учебное пособие для магистров и аспирантов всех направлений подготовки. — М: РУТ (МИИТ), 2018. — 75 с. Настоящее учебное пособие предназначено для магистров и аспирантов всех направлений обучения. Первый раздел учебного пособия освещает основные исторические этапы развития научных знаний, начиная с её возникновение до Петровского периода. Второй раздел посвящён рассмотрению...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2012. — 432 с. — ISBN 978-5-91419-526-4. В книге рассказывается о днях и трудах ряда ученых, инженеров, врачей и педагогов X-XVII веков, большинство жизнеописаний которых отсутствует в отечественной литературе. Этих людей высоко ценили современники, их достижения сохранялись в памяти двух-трех последующих поколений, а затем о них вспоминали все реже и реже, и...
Москва: Academia, 1923. — 140 c. В настоящем небольшом сочинении мы хотим дать общее понятие о характере развития тепловых двигателей в последние годы, применяемых методов для уменьшения в них траты тепла и о результатах, достигнутых в этом направлении за новейшее время. Мы ограничиваем свою задачу именно только общей характеристикой этой проблемы, так как детальное изложение...
Монография. — Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Русского Христианского гуманитарного института, 2001. — 240 с. Введение. Многообразие интерпретаций истины и связь организационных форм и понимания истины в познавательной деятельности. Многообразие интерпретаций истины. Средневековый университет как цеховая корпорация для сохранения истины. Изменение познавательных целей в эпоху...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 345 p. Introduction Madame Newton du Chatelet Creating the theory of gravity: the Newtonian controversy Learning mathematics and fighting for freedom Emilie and Voltaire's Academy of Free Thought Testing Newton: the'New Argonauts' The danger in Newton: life, love and politics The nature of light: Emilie takes on Newton Searching for 'energy':...
Brill, 2020. — 440 p. — (Historical Materialism 221). This volume in political epistemology offers a comprehensive discussion of the multiple applicability of Gramscian concepts and categories to the historical, sociological, and cultural analysis of science. The authors argue that the perspective of hegemony and subalternity allows us critically to assess the political...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 280 p., 17 Fig. — (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series, Book 24). — ISBN: 978-1442630246. For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic “Enlightenment project.” Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a...
New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 287 p. This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and science.Beginning around 1650, the emergence of a number of new scientific concepts, methods, and instruments challenged existing syntheses of science and religion....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 334 p. This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we...
Le Seuil, 2015. — 516 p. — (Science ouverte référence). — ISBN10: 2021076784; ISBN13: 978-2021076783. Du pouvoir de l'atome au consumérisme high-tech, de la guerre à la médecine et à l'agriculture, du pilotage de l'innovation et la gestion du social à la surveillance du climat, rares sont les fragments de notre réalité qui n'ont pas été transformés par les sciences, les...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — xii, 398 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-17532-4, 978-0-691-18607-8. How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities — demons — to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the...
Captivating History, 2020. — 246 p. — ISBN 9781647488796, 1647488796 Enlightenment philosophy then intensified the Industrial Revolution by changing the British political system and guiding its deliberations. It was responsible, at least in part, for bringing mercantilism to an end and replacing it with a more open and competitive economic system. If you want to discover the...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. — 136 p. In the history of science and philosophy and the philosophy of nature the name of Robert Hooke has been largely ignored. If he is occasionally mentioned, it is usually in one of two ways: either he is briefly referred to in passing, or, he is viewed through the eyes of some later giant in the history of science and philosophy such as...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-1250057853, 125005785X. An exciting book about real-life technology derived from science fiction and its impact on the world. Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 545 p. — ISBN 9780197545508. Whether you are planning a road trip or looking to engage with history from the comfort of your couch, the second edition of America's Scientific Treasures is sure to satisfy your craving for scientific and technologic history. Stephen M. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen, a mother-son pair, take readers...
London: Duckworth. — 24565 p. — 0715624393, 9780715624395. A.C. Crombie is well known as one of the world’s leading historians of science. A retired Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, he has been responsible for the introduction of the history of science and medicine into normal teaching and research in the University. He has held distinguished academic appointments, among...
Routledge, 2019. — 276 p. Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a...
Springer, 2020. — 185 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-62564-1. There has recently been considerable discussion of a “replication crisis” in some areas of science. In this book, the authors argue that replication is not a necessary criterion for the validation of a scientific experiment. Five episodes from physics and genetics are used to substantiate this thesis: the Meselson-Stahl...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 426 p. The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of...
Springer, 1991. — 259 p. Antiquity was conceived of, put to use, and reassessed in various ways in natural philosophy and what might broadly be termed metaphysics in the period between Copernicus and Newton. The papers in this collection deal with questions about the symbolic and polemical uses of antiquity, with antiquity as a fund of ideas or as a source of evidence, and...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 544 p. How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science , Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how they began, in turn, to shape those of...
Amsterdam: Springer, 1994. — 453 p. The articles in this volume have been first presented during an international Conference organised by the Greek Society for the History of Science and Technology in June 1990 at Corfu. The Society was founded in 1989 and planned to hold a series of meetings to impress upon an audience comprised mainly by Greek students and scholars, the point...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 200 p. Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and linguistic relevance of technical automation to natural automatism, demonstrates how ancient...
Harper Perennial, 1995. — 356 p. Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the...
Future Publishing Limited, 2024. — 132 p. — (Part of the All About History ). The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution. Beginning in...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 304 p. There is ample evidence that it is difficult for the general public to understand and internalize scientific facts. Disputes over such facts are often amplified amid political controversies. As we've seen with climate change and even COVID-19, politicians rely on the perceptions of their constituents when making decisions that impact...
New York: Harmony, 2002. — 435 p. Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould’s tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he has ever...
New York: Harmony Books, 1996. — 178 p. A Modest Proposal. How Shall We Read and Spot a Trend? Huxley's Chessboard. Darwin Amidst the Spin Doctors. Biting the Fourth Freudian Bullet. Can We Finally Complete Darwin's Revolution? Different Parsings, Different Images of Trends. Fallacies in the Reading and Identification of Trends. Variation as Universal Reality. Death and Horses:...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 264 p. Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative antecedent efforts of three great civilizations: Greek, Islamic, and Latin. With the...
Springer, 1991. — 318 pp. This volume comprises a selection of the papers presented at a conference held at the University of Melbourne in May of 1988 on the theme, 'Nationalism and Internationalism in Science: Australia, America, and the World of Science'. Contributors take as their starting point existing discussions of the notion of colonialism in science, most notably those...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 482 p. In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of the Protestant theological faculty, focusing especially on the University...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 288 p. A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain. In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth...
Islamic Book Trust, 2009. — 316 p. — ISBN-10 9675062312 / ISBN-13 978-9675062315. The Making of Islamic Science is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Islam and science from the emergence of the Islamic scientific tradition in the eighth century to the present time. Conceived as a dynamic relationship affecting some of the most fundamental aspects of science in...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 227 p. The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship. The twenty...
Springer Praxis Books, 2020. — 235 p. — ISBN: 3030517438 This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines the personal lives of six of the intellectual giants involved. It explores the profound revolution in the way of thinking, and in particular the successful...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 352 p. The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. The Names of Science examines in detail how, over time, new words have entered the scientific lexicon and how some of them, but far from all, have survived to the present. Why is a transistor called a transistor and not...
Brill, 2013. — 814 p. — (Brill's New Pauly - Supplements 6). This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the history of classical studies. Alphabetically arranged, it provides biographies of over 700 scholars from the fourteenth century onwards who have made their mark on the study of Antiquity. These include the lives, careers and works of classical philologists,...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 272 p. What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets, why that occurred, and how the waning of the last Ice...
The 40 anniversary ed. — Simon & Schuster, 2012. — 609 p. — ISBN 9781451683233, 1451683235.. The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is...
Penguin Books, 2003. — 228 p. — ISBN: 9780143030287. Part One : India s Science in a Historical Context. Part Two : Learning to Live in the Age of Science. Part Three : The Future of Science in India.
NY: National Geographic, 2015 — 809 p. — ISBN 978-1-426-21584-1. Foreword by Henry Petroski. This vivid, engrossing book reveals the fascinating stories behind the objects in your world, what you wear, what you eat, what entertains you, and more. Discover the history behind the world's tallest skyscrapers, find out when people first started drinking caffeine and why it wakes us...
Lund University Press in association with Manchester University Press, 2018. — 312 p. This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the Humboldtian tradition was transformed and how it gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the...
Points, 2019. — 512 p. — (Points histoire). — ISBN10: 2757879774; ISBN13: 978-2757879771. Savants, médecins, administrateurs, artisans et amateurs composent le monde des sciences à l'époque moderne. Des mathématiques mixtes au triomphe de l'histoire naturelle, de la cartographie à la question des races, de la philosophie naturelle à l'économie politique, et des jardins...
NY: Vintage, 2005. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-1-400-03294-5, 1400032946. Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings-and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its...
New Princeton Science Library edition. — NY: Princeton University Press, 2018. — (Princeton Science Library). — ISBN: 978-0691180991,0691180997. From the acclaimed author and engineer, an engaging and lively account of the surprising secret of great design. Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge...
NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999. — 306 p. — eISBN 978-0-307-77328-9. Henry Petroski, "the poet laureate of technology" and author of the highly acclaimed The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things now sets his sights on perhaps the greatest technological advances of the last two thousand years: the making and storing of books—from papyrus scrolls to precious...
NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 322 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63286-360-7. Renowned historian and engineer Henry Petroski explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. In The Road Taken, acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2014. — 221 p. Invented in the 1830's, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the United States alone. The telegraph played a pivotal role in warfare beginning with the American Civil War, featured prominently in the creation of the first large American corporation,...
Teaching Company, 2002. — 124 p. Science is often characterized by ideas that have an enormously long shelf life, linking widely separated eras. Our notions of "science" and "scientists" date only to the 19th century. Before then, "science" simply meant knowledge; the label of "scientist" did not exist. Instead, the study of the natural world was known as "natural philosophy."...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 168 p. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific Revolution." New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds...
Pearson Education, 2008. — 224 p. In The Trial of Galileo the new science, as brilliantly propounded by Galileo Galilei, collides with the elegant cosmology of Aristotle, Aquinas, and medieval Scholasticism. The game is set in Rome in the early decades of the seventeenth century. Most of the debates occur within the Holy Office, the arm of the papacy that supervises the Roman...
Clever Gizmos LLC, 2020. — 383 p. — ISBN 978-1733328760, 1733328769. Would you like to know what your life will be like in the next decade? Are you curious to learn about how you'll be getting around town, where you'll be working, and what the future has in store for your family? At the 2017 World Government Summit, Tesla founder Elon Musk proclaimed: «In 10 years it will be...
University of California Press, 2005. — 398 p. This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to...
Routledge, 2011. — 256 p. For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke’s role as the founder of modern Indology. The book discusses how Colebrooke embodies the significant passage from the...
Springer, 2009. — 321 p. This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period. As for the very ancient ones, the book describes inventions (documented by archaeological finds mainly from Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia) that...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. — 464 p. In this landmark study, focusing on developments up to 1940, Margaret Rossiter describes the activities and personalities of the numerous women scientists—astronomers, chemists, biologists, and psychologists—who overcame extraordinary obstacles to contribute to the growth of American science. This remarkable history recounts...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. — 701 p. Humans, over many millennia, have been intrigued with magnetism and continuously revealing its nature and association with other objects, both animate and inanimate. Started with reverence for its mystic power, the beautiful minds soon find the means to harness it. This book is an omnibus that helps one travel through time over many...
New York University Press, 2014. — 275 p. — (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World). Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990’s, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but the consensus was that no real scientific themes could be found in earlier Judaism. This...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 310 p. This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt , a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's...
Ankara: Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, 2007. — 226 s. In Turkish. This valuable work of Fuat Sezgin examines the role of Islamic science in the history of world sciences. The book, which is composed of five volumes and is written as a catalog of Istanbul Islamic Science and Technology History Museum, shows the contributions of Islamic scholars to the history of world science in...
Greenwood Publishing, 2001. — 723 p. The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century. Organized chronologically by prize, each extensive article contains in-depth information on the laureate's life and career as well as a selected list of his or her publications and...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-4864-5, 0801448646, 9780801462344,0801462347 In The Unfinished Enlightenment , Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories,...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 304 p. Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900. When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds often come to mind: inner voices, snippets of past conversations, imaginary debates, beloved and unloved melodies. What should we make of such sonic companions?...
Basel: Birkhäuser, 2024. — 155 p. Athanasius Kircher, the eminent 17th-century German Jesuit professor of mathematics at the Roman College emerges as a captivating figure within the pages of this monograph by Agustín Udías. Aptly deemed 'the man who knew everything,' Kircher's thirty-two comprehensive works, spanning an array of subjects, provide a unique lens into his...
Springer, 2017. — 493 p. The Structures of Practical Knowledge investigates the nature of practical knowledge – why, how, when and by whom it is codified, and once codified, how this knowledge is structured. The inquiry unfolds in a series of fifteen case studies, which range in focus from early modern Italy to eighteenth century China. At the heart of each study is a shared...
New York : Adventures Unlimited Press, 2000. — 324 p.
The death knell has struck. Wave Radio is dead. How have 70 years of Military Research succeeded in producing a completely new and superior communications technology? Radio History gives a stranger walk than paranoid writers ever tell! While citizens were watching television, military research was directed to create an...
Routledge, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN 9780415325264, 0415325269. This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state. Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN 9781472913210. Science is secretly at work behind the scenes of major cities of the world and will continue to be so. Technological advances in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, electronics, and nanotechnology are proving increasingly important to city life, and the urban world will turn to science to deliver solutions to the...
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1984. — 109 с. Қазақстан ғылымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш совет әдебиетінің классигі, Қазақ ССР Ғылым Академиясының академигі, Лениндік және Мемлекеттік сыйлықтардың лауреаты Мұхтар Омарханұлы Әуезовке арналған.
Ростов-на-Дону: РЮИ МВД России, 2017. — 800 с. — ISBN 978-5-89288-312-2. Хрестоматия представляет собой собрание текстов-первоисточников выдающихся философов науки XIX-XX столетий (К. Поппера, Ю. Хабермаса, Т. Куна и других). Предназначена для адъюнктов очной и заочной форм обучения, преподавателей образовательных организаций системы МВД России.
Сборник статей. Электронное издание. — Иркутск, 2022. — 177 с. Настоящий сборник статей знакомит читателя с известными и малоизвестными тружениками науки и сферы интеллектуального познания мира. Сборник ориентирован на всех читателей, которым не безразлично прошлое, настоящее и будущее научного познания, а также весь спектр человеческого и личностного измерения науки в...
2-е изд., пересм. — Учебное пособие. — Грызлов В.С.; Каптюшина А.Г.; Петровская А.А.; Поварова О.А. — Москва; Вологда: Инфра-Инженерия, 2019. – 200 с.: ил., табл. — ISBN 978-5-9729-0372-6. Рассмотрены исторические аспекты строительного материаловедения и развития технологий изготовления и применения основных строительных материалов и изделий. Большое внимание уделено научному...
Перевод с нем. Г. И. Гордона. Под ред. проф. П. А. Знаменского. — Ленинград: Сеятель, 1925. — 136 с.: ил. Мировая война выдвинула перед человечеством грозный призрак грядущего угольного голода, неизбежного истощения запасов угля, может быть, даже в недалеком будущем. Перед наукой и техникой во всем объеме стали две проблемы, от удачного разрешения которых зависит вся дальнейшая...
Москва: Знание, 1965. — 310 с. «Следы в эфире» — повесть о науке и разведке. С одной стороны, глазами советского журналиста читатель наблюдает творческий процесс открытия радиолокации, с друзой, сквозь призму иностранного разведчика развертываются события, в которых происходят острые схватки между сторонниками традиционных методов шпионажа и сторонниками нового течения в...
Ташкент: Extremum press, 2017. — 435 c. — ISBN 978-9943-4858-9-1. Настоящая монография выполнена в рамках государственного гранта А-1-190, направленного на исследование вопроса об активном участии древнетюркских народов в развитии оседлоземледельческой и городской культуры в Центральноазиатском регионе наряду с ведением кочевого животноводческого типа хозяйства и номадической...
Москва-Ижевск: Институт компьютерных исследований, 2002. - 192 с.
Эта в высшей степени увлекательная книга исследует потрясающие следствия положительного ответа на знаменитый вопрос Эйнштейна: "А мог ли Бог создать этот мир по-другому? " Автор рассматривает мнение о том, что наша Вселенная является лишь частью огромного "мультиверса", или ансамбля вселенных, в большинстве из...
Пер. с англ. под ред. и с прим. А.П. Шимкова. — Санкт-Петербург: Издательство Е.С. Баллиной, 1864. — 373 c. Въ слѣдующихъ лекціяхъ я пытался сдѣлать начала нового ученія о тѳплотѣ доступными для людей съ обыквовеннымъ разввтіемъ и образованіѳмъ. Первыя семь лекцій трактуютъ о термометрической [или статической) теплотѣ, объ образованію и потребленіи ея на механеческую работу;...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — СПб.: СПБ ГУ ИТМО, 2006. — 143 с. В данном методическом пособии для студентов старших курсов рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с развитием науки и техники от простых орудий труда до нанотехнологии. Учебно-методическое пособие печатается по решению Ученого совета гуманитарного факультета, протокол № 9 от 16.05.2006 г.
Санкт-Петербург: издание Н.П. Карбасникова, 1900. — 345 с. Перевод под редакцией В. Шевякова. Язык русский дореформенный. Успехи. Способы передвижения. Сберегающий труд машин. Передача мысли. Огонь и свет. Новое приложение света — фотография. Новое приложение света — спектральный анализ. Теоретические открытия в области физики (Молекулярная теория газов). Практические...
М.: Центральный научно-исследовательский институт информации и технико-экономических исследований, 1974. — 70 с. В обзоре на основе изучения отечественных и зарубежных информационных материалов анализируются тенденции развития производства бытовых холодильников и их технического уровня, рассматриваются различные типы холодильников, их потребительские свойства, конструктивные...
Éditions UNESCO, 2004. — 272 p. Sommaire Genèse et essor de la science arabe La transmission du savoir antique La philosophie Les mathématiques L’astronomie Les sciences physiques et naturelles La médecine et la pharmacologie Les sciences géographiques et historiques État des lieux et perspectives Lexique Quelques mots et noms d’origine arabe Bibliographie Index général
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 504 p. Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too, despite the fact that a large part of the field’s extant texts deal with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts, this collection aims at...
University of Chicago Press, 2015. — 328 p. Making "Nature" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature , one of the world’s most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark for scientific publication. Its contributors include Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford,...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 372 p. — ISBN 9780199604715. Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately three million years to the first stone tools, but it was only with the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago, that technology took its first modern form and revolutionized our social and economic lives. The development of handles and shafts,...
Riverhead Books, 2018. — 273 p. — ISBN 9780399576423, 0399576436. The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and...
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. — 378 p. — ISBN: 0-226-04181-6 "Science is rooted in conversations," wrote Werner Heisenberg, one of the twentieth century's great physicists. In Quantum Dialogue, Mara Beller shows that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt, and uncertainty. She argues that it is precisely this culture of...
Peter Peregrinus Ltd, 1993. — 250 p. In 1930 the behaviour of the many devices and systems incorporating feedback loops was poorly understood: at the most fundamental level there was still confusion between positive and negative feedback. The crucial role of time delays-both time constants and transport lags -was not understood and engineers attempting to build control systems...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 184 p. — (Information Cultures) How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the celebrated French physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet set out on a journey through Italy to solve an international controversy over the medical uses of electricity. At...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 302 p. In Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America's nation building in the early republic and antebellum eras. This engaging tour of scientific education and practices among ordinary citizens charts the development of...
Brill, 2022. — 616 p. — (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art 15). This book charts the past, present, and future of studies on medieval technology, art, and craft practices. Inspired by Villard's enigmatic portfolio of artistic and engineering drawings, this collection explores the multiple facets of medieval building represented in this...
Hachette Book Group, 2009. — 926 p. — ISBN 978-0-316-09191-6. The Day the Universe Changed is James Burke’s challenging examination of eight moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man’s understanding of himself and the world around him. When people knew the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth....
Ashgate Publishing, 2010. — 370 p. This third volume of studies by Charles Burnett brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages. Some study the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals into Western Europe, documenting, in more detail than anywhere else, the different forms in which they are found, before they acquired the standard shapes with...
Routledge, 1989. — 1108 p. Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction .an ambitious and successful work.This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers...
Amsterdam: Springer, 1992. — 252 p. Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. The essays take a broad historical approach towards understanding such...
London: Open Humanities Press, 2017. — 220 p. Dream Machines is a history of imaginary machines and the ways in which machines come to be imagined. It considers seven different kinds of speculative, projected or impossible machine: machines for teleportation, dream-production, sexual pleasure and medical treatment and cure, along with ‘influencing machines’, invisibility machines...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 260 p. This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser...
The New American Library, 1961. — 324 p. On the nature of things reason and the vortex the logos in the lightning the power of number the system of the world a universe of rigor love, strife, and necessity doctor vs. medicine man atoms in the void man the difficult measure the care of the soul flight to the trans-uranian a tidiness of words mathematics the main issue in...
Palgrave MacMillan Ltd, 2001. — viii, 208 p. — ISBN 0-333-71574-8. From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation, the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transformed the way that Europeans understood their world. In this book, Peter Dear offers an accessible introduction to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 293 p. We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human history, we might ask: which innovations brought about truly significant and long-lasting transformations? Drawing on both historical...
New York: Dick&Fitzgerald, 1872. — 612 p. Containing Over 6400 Receipts; Embracing Thorough Information, in Plain Language, Applicable to Almost Every Possible Industrial and Domestic Requirement The Receipts containing information more especially applicable to domestic matters and the requirements of every-day life, deserve more than a passing notice, as no pains have been spared...
Dover Publications, 1959. — 416 p. — ISBN 9780486222844, 0486222845. Artists, illustrators and collectors, together with historians of art, invention, and economic life, will welcome the first reissue in a century and a half of these charming copperplates. They were engraved to illustrate the first work of its kind, the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des...
Dover Publications, 1959. — 536 p. — ISBN 9780486222851, 0486222853. Artists, illustrators and collectors, together with historians of art, invention, and economic life, will welcome the first reissue in a century and a half of these charming copperplates. They were engraved to illustrate the first work of its kind, the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 295 p. The Impact and Organization of the Humanities in Sweden, 1850-2020. This book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning two centuries. The societal function of the humanities is considered from the flexible perspective of knowledge politics in order to historicize notions of impact and...
Hill Ltd., Ray Essen, 2020. — 280 p. Revolutions in Time explores the world of precision timekeeping from its secret military origins to its emergence as a multi-billion-dollar industry. The story focuses on a government scientist, Louis Essen, and his quest to build the most accurate clocks in the world. Essen's ground-breaking work led to a revolution in time measurement...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — 300 p. In 1633, the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending the astronomical theory that the earth moves, and implicitly assuming the theological principle that Scripture is not scientific authority. This controversial event has sent ripples down the centuries, embodying the struggle between a thinker who...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 294 p. When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to...
Office for History of Science and Technology, University of California, 2001. — 174 p. — (Berkeley papers in history of science 19 ) — ISBN 9780967261713, 0967261716. The International Summer School in History of Science started in 1988 as a joint initiative between the universities of Bologna, Uppsala, and Berkeley; since 1994 Paris has been a fourth partner. The idea behind...
University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 528 p. Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly colored, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known...
Springer, 2014. — 191 p. This volume comprises studies of the early modern drama of motion and transformation of knowledge. It is unique in taking its global nature as fundamental and contains studies of the theme of motion and knowledge in China, Europe and the Pacific from the 16th to the 18th century. People living around the turn of the 17th century were experiencing motion in...
Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. — 247 p. Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would “see” by electricity as a means of extending human perception. In Seeing by Electricity Doron Galili traces the early history of television, from fantastical image...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — xxvii + 377 p. Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows took a geological fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight. Adam Sedgwick and John...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951. — 315 p. Through nature up to nature's God. Neptune and the flood. From vulcanism to paleontology. Catastrophist geology. The uniformity of nature. The vestiges of creation. How useful is thy dwelling place. The place of providence in nature.
New York: State University of New York Press, 1994. — 214 p. This book shows how the universal quantification of science resulted from the routinization of commercial practices that were familiar in scientist's daily lives. Following the work of Franz Borkenau and Jacob Klein in the 1930s, the book describes the rise of the mechanistic world-view as a reification of relations of...
Stanford Business Books, 2011. — 327 p. — (Innovation and Technology in the World E). — ISBN 9780804774796, 080477479X. Considerable evidence indicates that the U.S. is falling behind when it comes to innovation. In part, this shift stems from the globalization of research and the advancement of other nations. But, it also arises from a widespread failure to adapt to the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 225 p. — (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science). — ISBN 9780521243490, 0521243491. Science and the Enlightenment is a general history of eighteenth-century science covering both the physical and life sciences. It places the scientific developments of the century in the cultural context of the Enlightenment and reveals the...
Oxford: Oxford Univenity Press, 2011. — 222 p. Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method examines Newton’s argument for universal gravity and its application to cosmology. William L. Harper shows that Newton’s inferences from phenomena realize an ideal of empirical success that is richer than prediction. To achieve this rich sort of empirical success, a theory must do more than predict the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 322 p. An essential introductory textbook that shows students how science came to be such an important aspect of modern culture. Lively and readable, it provides a rich historical survey of the major developments in scientific thought, from the Ancient Greeks to the twentieth century. John Henry also explains how new scientific theories...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 368 p. In the course of the eighteenth century, discoveries ranging from Tahiti to Pompeii initiated a scientific turn in the study of the past, the product of old affinities between natural history and antiquarianism and new approaches to the division of labour. Romantic-era plate books on the South Pacific, Vesuvius, Greek vases, medieval...
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. — 309 p. Engines of Change is based on a Smithsonian Institution exhibit of the same title. The principal theme is the importance of technological transfer. It ventures beyond discussion of machines and tools to consider the effects of geographical dimension, natural resources, business practices, the role of women, ethnic diversity, and...
Iowa State University Press, 1986. — 223 p. — ISBN 9780813809335, 0813809339. This first English translation of Christiaan Huygens’ (1629-1695) greatest work is a classic in the history of science. Originally published in 1673, The Pendulum Clock is the most significant scientific book published in the seventeenth century other than Galileo’s Dialogues and Newton’s Principia....
Routledge, 2020. — 362 p. Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. The book addresses multiple issues related to the histories of science and culture during the Ottoman era. Most of the articles contained in this volume were the first contributions to their respective topics, and they continue to...
Harvard University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture. Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that "tenured radicals"...
McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. — 304 p. Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between...
Routledge, 2023. — 421 p. The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area. The field of the history of science continues to grow and expand into new areas and to adopt new theories to explain the role of science and its connections to politics, economics, religion, social structures, intellectual...
World Scientific Publishing, 2021. — 413 p. — ISBN 9781786349842. Consisting of separate cases organized by chapter and divided into independent sections, this is no ordinary history of science book. Between the Earth and the Heavens is an episodic history of modern physical sciences covering the chronological development of physics, chemistry and astronomy since about 1860....
Greenwood, 2003. — 400 p. — (Groundbreaking scientific experiments, inventions, and discoveries through the ages). — ISBN 0-313-31342-3. This reference work describes the trial-and-error experiments, discoveries, and inventions of early humans who lived from before recorded history to the Middle Ages. Krebs travels through the ancient periods of Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica,...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 368 p. A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. The contributors to this collection focus on what happens to knowledge and know-how at national borders. Rather than treating it as flowing like currents across them, or diffusing out from center to periphery, they stress the human intervention that shapes...
San-Francisco: California University Press, 2000. — 236 p. In his classic book, J. G. Landels describes the technological advances of the Greeks and Romans with erudition and enthusiasm. He provides an important introduction to engineering, writing about power and energy sources, water engineering, cranes, and transportation devises. From aqueducts to catapults, he attempts to...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 352 p. In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge—and thus possess culture? The subsequent debate has rocked the scientific world,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 187 p.
Introduction Theology, Science, and Rational Ground.
The Contact of Science and Theology.
Divine Ideas, Aristotelian Science: Robert Grosseteste and the Theory of Scientia.
Aquinas and Theology as Subalternate Science.
Duns Scotus and Intuitive Knowledge.
Ockham and the Nature of Science.
Theology Beyond Science.
After Ockham: Marsilius...
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. — 344 p. Scientific governance: an introduction Governance of science Give me a laboratory and I will win you the war: governing science in the Royal Navy Bureaucratic reformism and the cults of Sir Henry Tizard and Operational Research The evolving role of the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Cabinet, 1940-71 Mugwumps? The Royal...
University of Chicago Press, 2008. — 480 p. — ISBN 9780226482057, 0226482057. When it was first published in 1992, The Beginnings of Western Science was lauded as the first successful attempt ever to present a unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic...
Chatto and Windus, 1970. — 170 p. Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to attempt to explain natural phenomena consistently in naturalistic terms, and they initiated the practices of rational criticism of scientific theories. This study traces Greek...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. — 392 p. The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. — 464 p. In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 368 p. orbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on library shelves in the seventeenth? Historian Hannah Marcus uncovers how early...
Boston: The MIT Press, 1970. — 161 p. Translation of Zur Frühgeschichte der technischen Regelungen. This is the first historical account tracing the development of the technology of feedback control from its earliest applications. The author describes how the notion entered technology and in what forms it flourished. A case study in the intellectual history of technology, the...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 569 p. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to podcasting and as community initiatives...
Springer, 2020. — 574 p. This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors. It compares these to mathematical texts produced in related school contexts...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. — 408 p. The Ascent of Man Humanity in Hindsight Battle for the Stone Age Building Citizens Naturalizing Violence Cain’s Children The Human Animal Man and Beast Unmaking Man Woman the Gatherer The Academic Jungle The Edge of Respectability Political Animals The White Problem in America A Dangerous Medium Moral Lessons Death of the...
PublicAffairs, 2012. — 384 p. — ISBN 9781586488284 , 1610390490. In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform...
Harcourt, 1967. — 392 p. — ISBN 9780151639731. This book is an attempt to explain the forces that have shaped technology from prehistoric times on, and have increasingly been shaping modern man. Instead of beginning with the problems of our own generation, Lewis Mumford goes back to the origins of human culture; but so far from accepting man's rise as due mainly to his command...
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952. — 634 p. — (Great Books of the Western World (34)). Mathematical principles of Natural Philosophy. Biographical note. Preface to the first edition. Preface to the second edition. Preface to the third edition. Definitions. Axioms, or Laws of Motion. The motion of bodies. The motion of bodies in resisting mediums. System of the world. Optics....
Reprint Edition. — Springer Netherlands, 2018. — 624 p. First published 1984 by University of Toronto Press. Water is fundamental to human life, and the ways in which a society uses it can tell us a great deal about a people. The ancient Greeks and Romans had at their disposal several mechanical water-lifting devices. The water-screw, the force pump, the compartmented wheel,...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-0307593207, 0307593207. From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural...
Alfred a Knopf Inc. 2007 — 472 p. — ISBN 9780307266361, 0307266362. Celebrating the extraordinary aspects of the simplest of implements, a fascinating and quirky history of the toothpick ranges from ancient Rome to the present day, examining the ubiquitous item in its various forms and designs, its colorful applications through time, and the modern toothpick manufacturing...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022. — 448 p. When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship’s naturalist—he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing...
New York: W.W.Norton, 1999. — 518 p. Major scientific advances stem from changes in 3 areas: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves, & the goal of the scientific enterprise. Examining the institutions that have shaped science -- the academies of Ancient Greece, universities, the growth of museums of science, technology & natural...
Le Seuil, 2015. — 468 p. — (Science ouverte référence). — ISBN10: 2021076776; ISBN13: 978-2021076776. Se donnant comme " la Modernité ", les années 1770 à 1914 sont le temps de l'industrialisation et de l'expansion impériale et coloniale. La science est victorieuse, la technique est reine, la Terre est quadrillée et mesurée, les populations sont mises en nombres, les races sont...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 307 p. In The Power of Systems, Egle Rindzeviciute introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War: the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, an international think tank established by the U.S. and Soviet governments to advance scientific collaboration. From 1972 until the late 1980s IIASA in Austria was one of...
Yale University Press, 1990. — 279 p. Aims to reveal the seminal role that Darwin's method and ideas played in Freud's basic thinking. Ritvo shows how Freud could have been influenced by Darwin's ideas and how the biologically rooted discipline of psychoanalysis reflects this relationship.
Lost Art Press, 2018. — 162 p. Introduction Why Early Workbenches? Workbenches Old & Modern The Pleasures & Problems With Paintings Workbenches: Where, When & Why Early Workholding Devices Herculaneum Workbench Saalburg Workbench ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Your Dollars Holy Roman Workbench ‘Experto Crede’ Acknowledgments Index
Ankara: Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı; Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, 2007. — 218 s. In Turkish. This valuable work of Fuat Sezgin examines the role of Islamic science in the history of world sciences. The book, which is composed of five volumes and is written as a catalog of Istanbul Islamic Science and Technology History Museum, shows the contributions of Islamic scholars to the...
Oxbow Books Limited, 2009. — 245 p. These twenty papers dedicated to Mike Tite focus upon the interpretation of ancient artefacts and technologies, particularly through the application of materials analysis. Instruments from the human eye to mass spectometry provide insights into a range of technologies ranging from classical alum extraction to Bronze Age wall painting, and...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005. — 362 p. — (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact). — ISBN 9780195168747, 0195168747. The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 352 p. How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word , Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans...
Springer, 2023. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-26808-3. Символы: история эволюции от каменного века до будущего For millennia humans have used visible marks to communicate information. Modern examples of conventional graphical symbols include written language, and non-linguistic symbol systems such as mathematical symbology or traffic signs. The latter kinds of symbols convey...
Chicago: Rand, McNally&Co Publishers, 1893. — 111 p. This volume is published with two objects in view: First, to provide a fitting memento of the World’s Fair for those who made themselves familiar with its wonders and desire to keep its memories green; secondly, to supply the sixty odd million people in the United States, who have not seen the Fair, with a series of pictures...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. — 153 p. — ISBN: 978-0691651996. Was there a continuity between the "vigorous art and the seminal science" of the seventeenth century? How did they affect one another? Which, if either, was dominant? Four distinguished scholars explore the relation between seventeenth century science and the creative arts in a series of four essays:...
New York—Heidelberg—Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1980. The book compares the history of thermodynamics with a rational, fully mathematized and uninterrupted organization of this discipline as obtained from hindsight and only recently completed by the author. Thus the historical course of events appears as a tragicomedy, partly as a "murky swamp of darkness". The reader must...
London, Longmans, Green, 1870. — 42 p. Tyndall was a prominent Irish physicist who made significant contributions to the fields of physics, chemistry, and atmospheric science. In this book, Tyndall explores the role of imagination in scientific discovery and how it can be used to further our understanding of the natural world. He also discusses the importance of experimentation...
Pergamon Press, 1980. — 461 p. — ISBN 978-0-08-024743-4, 0-08-024743-1. Science, Technology and the Future is an analysis of the problems of and prospects for the development of science and technology and their role in society. Drawing on the perspectives of Soviet scientists, this book examines the relation between society and nature as well as the prospects for resolving...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 222 p. How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning? This book presents answers to these questions. It...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2022. — 258 p. The history of neurology as seen through the lens of the filmmaker is fascinating and extraordinary. Neurocinema, The Sequel is a review of the history of neurology as seen in film, starting with the early days of cinema and concluding with contemporary films now available in theaters and on streaming sites. Preface to Neurocinema—The...
London: UCL Press, 2023. — 476 p. — ISBN 9781800084179. «Женщины в истории науки» объединяет первоисточники, освещающие участие женщин в производстве научных знаний во всем мире. Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each...
Wrocław—Warszawa—Kraków, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo PAN, 1968. — 223 s. Książka, którą obecnie oddajemy w ręce czytelników, ma za zadanie rozszerzyć wiedzę o tym mało znanym okresie historii polskiej wytwórczości szklarskiej, zaprezentować nie znane dotąd materiały źródłowe, przed stawić próbę nowego ujęcia dziejów tej zapoznanej gałęzi przemysłu.
New York: Wilfred Funk, 1942. — 133 p. Перечень тем для работы изобретателей, каким он виделся в США в 1942 году, с учётом идущей войны. На английском языке.
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 417 p. Editorial Notes Preface IIntroduction Capacious Memory and Copious Notebooks Information and Empirical Sensibility Taking Notes in Samuel Hartlib’s Circle Rival Memories: John Beale and Robert Boyleon Empirical Information Robert Boyle’s Loose Notes John Locke, Master Note-taker Collective Note-taking and Robert Hooke’s Dynamic...
Routledge, 2024. — 357 p. — (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities). The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities), edited by by Arnaud Zucker, Robert Mayhew and Oliver Hellmann, is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant...
Великие Луки: Великолукская государственная академия физической культуры и спорта, 2019. — 168 с. Учебное пособие «История науки» рекомендовано для обучающихся по различным направлениям подготовки вузов физической культуры и спорта. Издание позволяет оказать практическую помощь обучающимся в процессе освоения учебных дисциплин «Проблемы истории науки», «История и философия...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1953. — 322 с.: илл. В эту книгу вошли статьи и речи британского физика, науковеда, общественного деятеля, борца за мир, лауреата Международной Сталинской премии "За укрепление мира между народами" (1952) Джона Десмонда Бернала (1901—1971). МАРКСИЗМ И НАУКА Столетие марксизма Маркс и наука Ленин - величайший ученый МЕСТО И ЗАДАЧИ НАУКИ В...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1860. — 366 с. Библиотека технических и промышленных производств. Фотография, Порох. Громовой отвод. Телеграфы. Микроскоп и телескоп
Санкт-Петербург: СПбФ ИИЕТ РАН, 2008. — 411 с. — ISBN 9785904030162. В сборнике публикуются тезисы 29 Годичной конференции Санкт-Петербургского отделения Российского национального комитета по истории и философии науки и техники РАН по теме «Вызов неосвоенного пространства Российской империи: экспедиционная деятельность Академии наук 18-19 вв. (к 275-летию с начала второй...
Москва: Мир, 1911. — 517 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Гольдгаммер Д.А. Механические процессы. Мир молекул и атомов. Эфир. Электроны. Чугаев Л.А. Химические процессы. Природа химических процессов. Состав и превращение вещества. Законы вечности вещества и сохранения элементов. Состав тел и законы, его определяющие. Атомизм в химии. Атом и молекула. Элементы и химические...
Москва: Мир, 1912. — 447 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Арциховский В.М. Развитие и размножение растений (продолжение). Шимкевич В.М. Размножение и развитие животных. Шимкевич В.М. Наследственность.
Учебное пособие. — Тамбов: ТГТУ, 2020. — 128 с. Приведена классификация основных типов материалов и технологий. Рассмотрены этапы исторического развития наук о материалах и эволюция взглядов на строение материи с древнейших времён и до наших дней. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению 22.03.01 «Материаловедение и технологии материалов». Изложенный в пособии...
М.; Л.: АН СССР, 1961. — 216 с. Начальный период. Время Петра I. Ньютон в русской научной литературе. Установление контактов с Королевским обществом. Участие русских ученых в работах Британской ассоциации Обсуждение Петербургской Академией наук английского проекта экспедиции на Северный полюс. Петербургская Академия наук и съезд в Брэдфорде по вопросам о единстве мер и весов....
М.: Московский рабочий, 1980. — 66 с. В своеобразном путеводителе автор рассказывает о наиболее интересных часах, находящихся на зданиях и сооружениях Москвы, а также экспонирующихся в московских музеях.
М.: Моск. психол. - социал. ин-т: Флинта, 1998 — 264 с. Автор — профессор, директор Лаборатории молекулярной генетики Университета имени Джорджа Мейсона в США — Валерий Николаевич Сойфер, знаком российскому читателю по многим книгам, посвящённым молекулярной генетике, истории и социологии науки. В этом исследовании, посвящённом политическому диктату в советской науке и пагубных...
Перевод под редакцией М.А. Орлова. — СПб.: Издание книжного магазина П.В. Луковникова, 1904. — 148 с. Тепло и холод. Материя и сила. Сила. Строение вещества.
Харьков: Фолио, 2019. — 270 с. Эта книга рассказывает о достижениях отечественной промышленности в четырех стихиях: на суше, море, в воздухе и в космосе — от первых паровозов, тракторов, танков, пароходов до искусственных спутников Земли и известных во всем мире самолетов «Антей», «Руслан», «Мрия», а более двухсот иллюстраций помогут читателям лучше представить мощные машины и...
Translator: Butian Zhang. — BeiJing: The commercial press, 2018. — 360 p. This book is a classic in the field of the history of scientific thought. It is both a work on the history of science and a work on the history of philosophy. It had a significant impact on later historians of scientific thought. It examines the process and reasons for the rise of modern science, and...
Progress Publishers, 1975. — 320 p. This classical book is evidence of the extraordinary attention now being given in the U.S.S.R. to the scientific-technological revolution and its consequences, national and international. Chapters on science and the Soviet economy provide an excellent précis of theory and some indication of practice.
Transcript, 2019. — 408 p. Since the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the...
Hackett Publishing, 1996. — 290 p. — ISBN 0-87220-308-5; ISBN 0-87220-309-3. Pierre Duhem: Life and Works. Selected Bibliography of Duhem’s Works. Selected Bibliography of Works on Duhem Some Reflections on the Subject of Physical Theories. On the Aim of Physical Theory. On Definitions in Physical Theory. On Hypotheses in Physical Theory. On the Limits of Theory and on the...
Faber and Faber, 1961. — 378 p. This book has three aims: to chart technological developments with especial reference to Britain, to indicate how they have affected and been affected by social life at certain stages and to offer some clues as to origins of innovations and institutions.
Oxford University Press, 1962. — 167 p. The earlier forms of industry The technical innovations Capital and labour ‘Individualism’ and ‘laisser-faire’ The course of economic change
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975. — 552 p. This is Neither a New Biography of Condorcet Nor an Attempt to analyze exhaustively all aspects of his thinking. In the following pages have concentrated on a single theme in his thought —albeit, I think, the central one —his conception of social science. I have tried to analyze historically the nature and development of...
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1997. — 337 p. This unusual book traces the history of public and technical exhibitions, from their origins in the late 18th Century to present day, and, particularly, how they have reflected the progress of science and technology especially electrical technology). Not only does the author show how electrical innovation and manufacture have...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 270 p. - Offers a systemic exploration of the relationship between Western and Eastern social scientists during the Cold War - Challenges the narrative of the non-cooperative nature of scientific work during the Cold War - Includes case studies from an array of Eastern European countries This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the...
Brill, 2021. — 264 p. — (The History of Oriental Studies 11). In this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of the academic...
Taylor & Francis, 2005. — 192 p. The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is therefore difficult for students to see it as anything other than an objective description of a crucial turning-point, yet a generation of social and labour history has revealed the...
Routledge & Regal Paul Ltd., 1953. — 231 p. This book contains two essays of very different length and scope but with closely related subjects. A longer one covering in a general way the relations of science and technology in the nineteenth century and a shorter one analysing in detail just one such interaction - the discovery of molecular asymmetry by Pasteur in 1848, his...
Yale: Yale University Press, 2017. — 313 p. groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 557 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–880991–3. Our most basic relationship with the world is one of technological mediation. Nowadays our available tools are digital, and increasingly what counts in economic, social, and cultural life is what can be digitally stored, distributed, replayed, augmented, and switched. Yet the digital remains very much materially...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. — 417 p. List of Illustrations Prologue: Court Culture and the Legitimation of Science Galileo's Self-fashioning Discoveries and Etiquette Anatomy of a Court Dispute The Anthropology of Incommensurability Intermezzo: Roma Theatrum Mundi Courtly Comets Framing Galileo's Trial Epilogue: From Patronage to Academies: A Hypothesis
Brill, 2017. — 368 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 19). Reading Newton in Early Modern Europe investigates how Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was read, interpreted and remodelled for a variety of readerships in eighteenth-century Europe. The editors, Mordechai Feingold and Elizabethanne Boran, have brought together papers which explore how, when,...
Springer, 2007. — 251 p. The Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667) was the first institution in Europe purporting to use an experimental method in its scientific inquiries. According to some recent accounts, the Cimento belonged to a new culture of knowledge making that abandoned the practice of constructing theories in favour of a programme that simply accumulated ‘matters of...
Routledge, 2023. — 876 p. The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century. Across six sections, a group of subject experts discuss and analyze scientific practices across a wide range of Islamicate societies. The authors take into consideration several contexts in...
Springer, 2018. — 355 p. This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences...
Little Brown And And Co., 1986. — 352 p. — ISBN 978-0-316-11704-3. The Day the Universe Changed is James Burke’s challenging examination of eight moments in history when a change in knowledge radically altered man’s understanding of himself and the world around him. When people knew the earth was flat and it was the center of the universe, all life revolved around that truth....
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 174 p. Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern...
University of California Press, 1994. — 696 p. Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science and mathematics, and aesthetic...
Springer, 2004. — 325 p. — (The Frontiers Collection). — ISBN 978-3-642-05905-6. The fundamental question whether, or in which sense, science informs us about the real world has pervaded the history of thought since antiquity. Is what science tells us about the world determined unambiguously by facts or does the content of any scientific theory in some way depend on the human...
İstanbul: Kitabevi Yayınları, 2020. — 256 s. — ISBN 978-605-7819-53-6. Bu çalışma Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü’ne 2013 yılında sunulan Orta ve İç Asya’da VI-IX. Yüzyıllar Arasında Maden Sanatı: Göktürk Dönemi başlıklı doktora çalışmasının yeni kaynaklarla gözden geçirilmiş hâlidir. Göktürk Dönemi’ne ait madeni eserlerin araştırılması...
Springer-Verlag London, 2013. — 344 p. This is an examination of the history and the state of the art of the quest for visualizing scientific knowledge and the dynamics of its development. Through an interdisciplinary perspective this book presents profound visions, pivotal advances, and insightful contributions made by generations of researchers and professionals, which...
Routledge, 2002. — 205 p. This detailed book is a historical investigation of the relationship between Asian science and society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they developed in both Japan and China from the 1890's to the 1940's.
Excelsior Editions. — State University of New York, 2014. — 296 p. — ISBN 13 9781438454016. Ingenious Machinitis recounts the early development of industrialization in New England and New York through the lives of two prominent innovators whose work advanced the transformation to factory work and corporations, the rise of the middle class, and other momentous changes in...
Routledge, 2023. — 418 p. The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging from pollen in a gust of wind to a carnivorous pitcher plant to a shell-like skinned armadillo - and the humans enthralled with them. Episodes from 1500 to the early 1900s reveal connected histories across...
Éditions Tallandeier, 2022. — 890 p. — ISBN 979-10-210-4999-4. Quel que soit l'intérêt que nous leur portons, les sciences nous concernent tous et leurs avancées constituent, aujourd'hui plus que jamais, un enjeu majeur de nos sociétés, un facteur décisif de leur évolution. Pour les non-spécialistes, il devient cependant de plus en plus difficile de suivre leurs progrés et d'en...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 424 p. Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In...
Island Press, 2004. — 402 p. John Wesley Powell was an American original. He was the last of the nation's great continental explorers and the first of a new breed of public servant: part scientist, part social reformer, part institution builder. His work and life reveal an enduringly valuable way of thinking about land, water, and society as parts of an interconnected whole; he...
Springer, 2023. — 270 p. — (History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 29). — ISBN 9783031126048. Витализм и его наследие в науках о жизни и философии XX века This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism,...
Apress Media LLC, 2023. — 278 р. — ISBN-13: 979-8-8688-1248-4. Philosopher Noam Chomsky is famously quoted as saying that technology is neither good nor bad, but simply a neutral tool. He likens it to a hammer, which can be used by carpenters and torturers alike. While the neutrality of tech is an idea that appeals to many technologists, this perspective is out of alignment...
McGraw-Gill Book Compant, 1951. — 397 p. Some twenty-five or thirty years ago the writer became interested in the history of engineering and accumulated many volumes of detailed notes and references. Much of this material, secured as it was from original sources in various scattered and not too easily available publications, is of interest in revealing the remarkable evolution,...
A. & C. Black, London, 1925. — 304 p. In the preparation of the book the needs of students of industrial history have been borne in mind particularly, but it is hoped that its readers will be gathered from a wider field, and include all those interested in industrial affairs.
Constable & Co, Ltd., 1958. — 365 p. Here, in one volume, is the story of man's development as a tool-using animal, written by a distinguished scholar in the history of science and based on many years of research and practical technological experience. Revised and brought up to date from its earlier successful edition, the text and bibliography include the most accurate current...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 161 p. The Industrial Revolution: A History in Documents uses a wide variety of primary source documents to chronicle a period of great international social and technological change that began in England in the 18th century. Improvements were made to the steam engine that meant that many tasks that had been done by hand in the past could be...
Columbia University Press. 2019. — 496 p. The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education - providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call "the continuing education of the educated". By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to go to...
Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 372 p. — ISBN 9780521351393, 0521351391. This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more...
NY: PublicAffairs, 2023. — 368 p. — ISBN 978-1541702271, 1541702271. A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold—if we act now. From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day, water has always been central to existence on Earth. And since long before the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. — 423 p. A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced...
Little, Brown & Company, 1956. — 212 p. This book is about the man who invented a machine that would, as the author says, “fasten slavery upon the south for three generations to come.” It is hard to tell what would have happened if Eli Whitney in 1792-93 had not invented the relatively simple machine that allowed short staple cotton to be cleaned of its seeds easily and which...
Cambridge University Press, 1962. — 222 p. The present work is an attempt to re-examine some of the more familiar nineteenth-century developments in technology in the light of such limited parts of the relevant theory as I feel I understand. It originated in lectures given at Columbia University in the autumn of 1958.
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 342 p. — ISBN 9780198509127, 019850912X. The Nobel Prize is by far the highest recognition a scientist may receive and the only one with which the general public is familiar. Its prestige has reached improbable heights. At the same time a lot of myth surrounds the Nobel Prize, and this is compounded by the fact that people tend to view...
Harvard University Press, 1924. — 411 p. The history of European science in the Middle Ages is twofold. On the one hand it is concerned with the recovery and assimilation of the science of antiquity, little known at first and only gradually brought into the West, to some extent as enlarged by the Arabs, in the course of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; While on the other...
Chronicle Books, 2021. — 104 p. — ISBN 978-1-4521-7306-1. Vehicles include an underwater battery-powered scooter, a carriage pulled by ostriches, a hot air balloon shaped like the Cathedral of Saint Gall, and five different jet packs. Filled with history, science, technology, engineering, and interesting bits of trivia, all in one kid-appealing package Part of the Uncommon...
University Press of Kentucky, 2008. — 204 p. Shawnee legend tells of a herd of huge bison rampaging through the Ohio Valley, laying waste to all in their path. To protect the tribe, a deity slew these great beasts with lightning bolts, finally chasing the last giant buffalo into exile across the Wabash River, never to trouble the Shawnee again. The source of this legend was a...
Brill, 2004. — xiv, 898 p. — (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 54). — ISBN 978-90-04-13202-3. This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 775 p. Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. — 392 p. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection of essays, Jim Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who have tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of...
Hourly History, 2016. — 46 p. — ISBN 9781540742810. Age of Enlightenment from its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the «Age of Enlightenment» is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that...
Annotated Translations of Greek and Latin Texts and Documents. Routledge, 1998. — 614 p. — ISBN 0-415-06136-9, 0-415-06137-7, 0-203-72149-7. At its most basic level, technology can be regarded as an attempt by humans to control and- master- the- natural- environment,- changing- it- to- a- more- hospitable- one- and- so improving the quality of life. In this volume, the authors...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 321 p. In the second half of the nineteenth century, British firms and engineers built, laid, and ran a vast global network of submarine telegraph cables. For the first time, cities around the world were put into almost instantaneous contact, with profound effects on commerce, international affairs, and the dissemination of news....
The British Society for the History of Science, 1982. — 302 p. This book is intended to be at once a reference tool and an interpretative study. It identifies each of the 551 Fellows elected to the Royal Society during the first forty years of its existence, and gives a summary of their career in the Society and their contribution to it. The book also offers a short history of...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 280 p. This is the story of John Draper, Andrew White, and the conflict thesis: a centuries-old misconception that religion and science are at odds with one another. Renowned scientist John William Draper (1811-1882) and celebrated historian-politician Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) were certain that Enlightened Science and Dogmatic...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 85 p. This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity,...
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2019. — 160 p. This revised edition of The Scientific Revolution highlights the difficulty of engaging, discarding, or assimilating religious paradigms in the course of scientific development. Jacob’s introduction outlines the trajectory of the Scientific Revolution and argues that the revival of ancient texts in the Renaissance and the upheaval of the...
Springer, 2023. — 259 S. Obwohl Frauen schon früh das wissenschaftliche Denken mitgeprägt haben, sichtbar geworden sind sie fast nie. Dieses Ungleichgewicht setzt sich bis heute fort, auch wenn es aktuell weit mehr Wissenschaftlerinnen gibt als jemals zuvor. Lars Jaeger spannt einen Bogen von der Antike bis heute und porträtiert in essayartigen Einführungen das Leben und Wirken...
Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., 1945. — 290 p. The Engineers have a history of which they have reason to be proud. It is in a part a story of the development of tools and technique in man’s age-long struggle to gain mastery over nature, in which struggle the achievements of the British engineer have won for him a lasting reputation on all part of the globe.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 686 p. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science. Bringing together new research with syntheses of pivotal scholarship, the volume acknowledges and integrates history, theory and practice across a range of disciplines and periods. While the handbook’s primary...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988. — 497 p. A wide-ranging collection of essays tracing the evolution of measurement instrumentation design and performance over the past fifty years. Written by one of the foremost authorities in optical devices, these papers stress the importance of mechanical detail in the development of devices capable of sensitive detection and precise...
Brill, 2014. — 216 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 12). In The Humboldtian Tradition , eleven scholars consider Wilhelm von Humboldt as a historical phenomenon and a contemporary symbol. Inspired by the growing body of literature that in recent years has problematized the modern research university, they put Humboldt's basic academic principles into...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 233 p. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He spent an incredible amount of time writing notebooks, perhaps even more time than he ever held a brush, yet at the same time Leonardo was Renaissance culture’s most fanatical critic of the word. When Leonardo...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. — 369 p. A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 304 p. Examines a variety of case studies and demonstrates how expeditions have uniquely contributed to scientific understanding where the laboratory could not. This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 344 p. An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of Cook. In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed - Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the...
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,2003 — 248 p. — ISBN 978-0801882722 — (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Winner of the 2004 Edelstein Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology "The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized...
Brepols, 2010. — 400 p. — (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 8). The centuries immediately following upon the monumental achievements of Avicenna (d. 1036) have been rightly characterized as a golden age of science and philosophy. Generation after generation scrutinized the Avicennan legacy, explicating and expanding upon the wealth of writings left by...
University of New Mexico Press, 2012. — 288 p. This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, when the story begins, the region was claimed by both Mexico and the United States. Neither country knew much about the lands crossed by such rivers as the Guadalupe, Brazos, Nueces,...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 161 p. — ISBN 9781316516249, 1316516245. This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups...
Springer, 2021. — 151 p. When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values. This unique volume explores how corporate, military, academic, and professional values shaped efforts to define computer terminology and establish an information engineering profession as a precursor to what would become...
State University of New York Press, 2009. — 263 p. Explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience. We live in a culture where science permeates virtually every aspect of our lives. Not only does it affect how we think about broad areas of research, from star wars to the war on cancer, it has also invaded the most private part of our everyday lives. Science has...
Pasadena: Salem Press, 2006. — 1213 p. — ISBN 978-1-58765-302-5. Lucan's famous dictum that those standing on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves applies to no human endeavor more thoroughly than to the pure sciences: astronomy, chemistry, biology, geology, mathematics, physics, and the many subdisciplines they have spawned. The three volumes of Science...
Brill, 2012. — xii, 226 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 24/3; History of Science and Medicine Library 24/3). For more than two centuries in which Catholicism was illegal in Scotland, the Scots Colleges abroad operated as a sixth Scottish university. During this time the university’s alumni, individually and collectively, helped to ensure the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 398 p. This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollion’s success in understanding hieroglyphs, first published in his Lettre à M. Dacier in 1822, is emblematic for the...
University Of Chicago Press, 1994. — 204 p. — ISBN 978-0226531984, 0226531988. What does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a comprehensive, critical introduction to the philosophy of technology and a discussion of its sources and uses. Tracing the changing meaning of «technology» from...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 216 p. Throughout his controversial life, the alchemist, physician, and social-religious radical known as Paracelsus combined traditions that were magical and empirical, scholarly and folk, learned and artisanal. He read ancient texts and then burned "the best" of them. He endorsed both Catholic and Reformation beliefs, but he also believed devoutly in a...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2000. — 188 p. Understanding the Industrial Revolution is a fresh, new exploration of this economic phenomenon of major importance. It describes theories of economic growth, shows how these can be applied to the revolution, and discusses them in the light of modern research. Furthermore it places the debate surrounding the social effects of...
Beau Bassin, Deutschland / Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2023. 147 p. The manual briefly outlines the world history of technology development from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. Special attention is paid to the main technical inventions and scientific discoveries in the history of mankind. Михайличенко О.В. Нариси з історії техніки в історії...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2023. — 464 p. 75th Anniversary of the Transistor is a commemorative anniversary volume to celebrate the invention of the transistor. The anniversary volume was conceived by the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) to provide comprehensive yet compact coverage of the historical perspectives underlying the invention of the transistor and its subsequent evolution...
New Brunswick: IEEE History Center, 1998. — 180 p. History of the creation of a new branch of engineering. Signal processing, which concerns the changes made to signals so as to improve transmission, storage, or use, is vital to a wide range of modern technologies. This extensively referenced account draws upon the published literature and oral-history interviews of dozens of...
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 314 p. — ISBN 9781633884663, 163388466X. Tells the story of a laser technology that will have a big impact on society and the brilliant innovators responsible for its development. Lidar–a technology evolved from radar, but using laser light rather than microwaves – has found an astounding range of applications, none more prominent than its crucial role...
Université Jean Moulin, 2017. — 177 p. En guise d’introduction : histoire des « science(s) » et des « techniques » Les sciences de la Renaissance, une renaissance scientifique? Une révolution scientifique au XVIIe siècle? Sciences et sociabilités à l’époque des Lumières Les acteurs des sciences et des techniques de l’époque moderne Sciences et religion Bibliographie Personnages...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013. — 470 p. Each year the Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences reveal amazing discoveries. New milestones in the relentless advance of science are identified. The growth of knowledge and its evolution can be researched in the Nobel archives where nominations are kept secret for 50 years after the awards have been made. They...
SUNY Press, 2022. — 362 p. In Ecology on the Ground and in the Clouds , Andrea Nye raises a question: In a time of climate change and environmental crisis, where should we look for inspiration? Is it to Alexander von Humboldt, the inventor of nature who viewed the cosmos from the lofty peak of Mount Chimborazo? Or is it to Humboldt's travel partner, the botanist Aimé Bonpland,...
The Ronald Press Company, 1956. — 676 p. This book is a historical survey of the development of American science and technology and of their effect on the growth of America’s culture. Americans have developed many tools and techniques, inventions, and devices to provide themselves with food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and communication in abundance never before seen on...
Lyons Press, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-1493038435, 1493038435. On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios. NASA's successful moon landing left the nation in awe. This moment inspired inventors and engineers across the nation. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, we share with you 20 patents that were inspired by the...
NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-24204-1, 0393242048. An architectural whodunit that unlocks the secrets of a hand-built home. When Henry Petroski and his wife Catherine bought a charming but modest six-decades-old island retreat in coastal Maine, Petroski couldn’t help but admire its unusual construction. An eminent expert on engineering, history,...
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1989. — 453 S. Technikgeschichte umfasst hier nicht nur die Geschichte der Maschinen und technologischen Entwicklungen, sondern ebenso die Wechselwirkung zwischen Technik, Mensch und Umwelt. Joachim Radkau thematisiert daher stets auch die Bewertung der menschlichen Arbeitskraft in den unterschiedlichen Epochen, er berichtet von Problemen durch knapper werdende...
Routledge, 2011. — 260 p. — (The History of Medicine in Context). Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from...
St. Martins's Press, 1962. — 245 p. Great Engineers tells the story of the Industrial Revolution in England – by far the most significant revolution the world has ever known – through the lives of ten men. The author has avoided some famous engineers of whom there are already many short biographies. Instead he has chosen ten of the great but less well-known men whose work...
Springer, 2023. — 390 p. — (Archimedes) This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 501 p. — (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics Volume 06). — ISBN 978-1-4411-2999-4. There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in the 20th century for very different practices - military,...
With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek. — University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. — 320 p. A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and...
İBB Yayınları, 2008. — 213 s. Değerli Türk bilim adamı Prof. Dr. Fuat SEZGİN; uzun yıllar süren çalışmaları sonucu ortaya koyduğu bu eserle, İslam dünyasının bilim ve teknoloji alanlarında insanlığın gelişmesine yaptığı katkıları incelemekte, bilim tarihi için yeni bir bakış açısına kapı aralamaktadır. Dünya bilim tarihinde İslam biliminin oynadığı rolü çeşitli örneklerle ele...
Greenwood Press, 2003. — 368 p. — (Groundbreaking scientific experiments, inventions and discoveries through the ages). — ISBN 0-313-32015-2. The 18th century saw the emergence of the industrial and chemical revolutions and witnessed the near-universal acceptance of applied science. It was a time of revolutionary, lasting transformation for the practice of science and...
Amsterdam: Springer, 2008. — 209 p. Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, usually in Physics and Astronomy, sometimes in Life Sciences and Chemistry. The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of...
Oxford University Press, 1958. — 807 p. The main object of this work is to provide students of technology and applied science with some humane and historical background for their studies. They may thus be helped to realize that the subject of their special training are parts of a very ancient process and are rooted in many civilizations. These volumes will not treat of such...
Singer Charles, Holmyard E. J., Hall A. R., Williams Trevor I. (editors). — New York, London: Oxford University Press, 1956. — 916 p.; il. For the first volume of this work the authors had necessarily to rely almost entirely on evidence derived from material recovered by excavation. This provides practically the only available information on the use of tools and on the sources...
Translated from the Russian by Peter Doria. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985. — 186 p. Where does knowledge lead-does it benefit man or will it prove to be his undoing? This controversy between Faust and Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust is a sort of key to this book by the Soviet journalist Kim Smirnov. Reflecting on letters sent in by his newspaper readers, the author talks...
Boston etc: Allen and Bacon, 1919. — 698 p. Everday Science was written primarily for eighth and ninth grade pupils who will never have any further training in science. The book, therefore, covers a wide field, and does not unduly emphasize any of the special sciences. The subject matter is chosen not for the purpose of appealing to any group of special science teachers, but...
London: Printed for J. Knapton, J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, J. Tonson, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1734. — 453 p. To the king. To the Royal Society. An advertisement to the Reader. The history of the institution, Design, and Progress, Of the royal society of london. For the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy. The First part. The history of the royal society. The Second part....
University of North Carolina Press / Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018. — 376 p. Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in...
Tarquin Group, 2017. — 98 p. Ideas and Explorations of the Meaning of Infinity Who has not wondered if there is something beyond the universe? Or if there is a biggest number? Or if there is something smaller than the smallest thing? These are questions about different infinities. Exploring the paradoxes and riddles of what infinity means is the invitation contained in this...
Washington D.C.: The Agency, 1978. — 14 p. — (R-5-78. Unclassified) Technical Aspects of VOA Listening in the Soviet Union Audibility Jamming Severity Jamming Frequency Time Listening Begins Meter Bands Language Services Methodological Appendix Audience Research in the Soviet Union The Sample Geographic Areas in the USSR List of Tables Audibility Audibility by Geographic Area...
Berlin—Heidelberg—New York: Springer-Verlag, 1968. — XVIII + 657 p. In this long and peculiar book the fugitive idiot (p. 589) author provides a selection from his many previous publications, some reprinted elsewhere already, many rewritten in a minor or major way; in addition, five items appear for the first time. Aims, programs, and methods Experience, Theory, and Experiment...
Springer, 2017. — 198 pp. This book explores how physicists, astronomers, chemists, and historians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employed ‘epistemic virtues’ such as accuracy, objectivity, and intellectual courage. In doing so, it takes the first step in providing an integrated history of the sciences and humanities. It assists in addressing such...
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014. — 454 p. In 1543, Copernicus publicly defended geokinetic and heliocentric universe. This book examines why and how he became a Copernican and what his affirmation of heliocentrism means in the context of the Scientific Revolution. Close reading of Copernicus’ texts and examination of his...
8th ed. — Worth Publishers, 2017. — 760 p. With an engaging and insightful presentation, Rudi Volti examines both how technology has influenced our lives and how it is shaped by the societies that create it. The new Eighth Edition features new and updated coverage of the gig economy; technology, income inequality, and the changing workforce; reading in a digital world; Social...
Brill, 2000. — 377 p. A magisterial new handbook replaces the discussion of water technology in antiquity in R.J. Forbes Studies in Ancient Technology and the first two volumes of A History of Technology, edited by Charles Singer et al. It surveys water use and water technology in an area from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic Ocean, from the beginning of the Neolithic period up to...
Владивосток: издание Уральского горного института, 1919. — 49 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Предисловие. О рациональной постановке образования в целях поднятия творческой энергии страны. Развитие естествознания, как показатель культуры народов. Развитие естествознания, как требование самосохранения народов и человечества. (Значение креативной психической энергии в эволюции...
Киев: Наукова думка, 1980. — 158 с. Десять путешествий в науку — это десять очерков о главных направлениях ее развития в Академии наук УССР, обобщенный, художественно осмысленный портрет одного из крупнейших научных центров страны. Черты этого портрета отражают рождение и путь технологий, которые сегодня определяют лицо научно-технической революции. Они человечны, как человечна...
Москва: Мир, 1912. — 480 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Агафонов В.К. Торжество машины и её эволюция. Период до паровой машины. Паровые машины. Газовые двигатели. Электричество как двигатель. Современные водяные двигатели и передача силы на расстояние. Двигатели ветряные и солнечные. Технические завоевания в области добычи и обработки вещества. Добыча полезных ископаемых....
Москва: Мир, 1914. — 149 с. Язык русский дореформенный. В данной книге приведены обобщённые и актуальные на момент выпуска труда сведения о общей психологии.
Москва: Горная книга, 2024. — 98 с. — ISBN 978-5-98672-575-8. Для специалистов, изучающих новые явления и компетенции в области физики, электротехники и работающих в области разработки экологических технологий получения энергии. Приведены описания семи научных открытий, установленных учёными кафедры «Проектирование и строительство автомобильных дорог» Шахтинского автодорожного...
СПб. Общественная польза, 1860. — 212 с. Библиотека технических и промышленных производств. Архитектура, строительное ремесло и их история; Гончарное производство и приготовление фарфора; Стекло и стеклянное производство
Таллин: Валгус, 1987. — 260 с. Дается широкое обозрение развития научного природоведения (ботаника, зоология, геология, география) в Эстонии и роли Общества естествоиспытателей в организации соответствующих исследований. Особенно глубоко затрагиваются вопросы развития геологии. Задумана для научных работников. Предисловие. Введение. История исследования природы Эстонии в ранний...
Ташкент: Университет, 2002. — 98 с. В учебно-методическом пособии представлена истории современных гуманитарных и естественных наук, освещаются основные направления и тенденции развития мировой и отечественной научной мысли. Пособие рассчитано на студентов-бакалавров высших учебных заведений и всех интересующихся проблемами истории мировой и отечественной науки.
С.-Петербург: Паровая типография Н.В.Гаевского, 1911. — 738 с. Тома 1, 2, 3. Пятитомное издание «Вселенная и человечество», впервые увидевшее свет в начале 1900-х гг. в Германии, сразу же завоевало любовь читателей и восторженные отзывы критики. Книга написана выдающимися немецкими учеными и содержит весь комплекс знаний о мире, накопленных к началу XX века геологами,...
София: Нариздат, 1947. — 382 с. Основни черти на епохата. Откритието на кръвообръщението. Уилям Харви. Достиженията на микроскопа. Марчело Малпиги. В родината на Спиноза. Съдбата на ботаниката. Основоположниците на материализма през XVII век. На границата на преходната епоха. Ятро-химиците и анатомо-физиолозите от XVII век. Лайбниц и витализма. Какво ставаше във Франция....
Москва : кн. маг. Гросман и Кнебель (И. Кнебель), 1896. — [2], 70 с.; 16. — (Вопросы науки, искусства, литературы и жизни; № 2). Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Ме́нзбир (23 октября [4 ноября] 1855, Тула, Российская империя — 10 октября 1935, Москва, СССР) — русский и советский зоолог и зоогеограф, заслуженный профессор Московского университета и ректор Московского университета...
East Finchley London, GlobeEdit, 2023. 340 с. У посібнику коротко викладена світова історія розвитку науки і техніки. Особлива увага звернена на виникнення знарядь праці, технічних засобів побуту та виробництва, основні технічні винаходи та наукові відкриття в історії людства. Здійснена класифікація природничих наук та наук про суспільство, визначені соціально-політичні,...
М.: Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2013. — 28 с. — (Серия WP6 «Гуманитарные исследования»).
Препринт WP6/2013/06.
В работе рассматриваются практики создания прошлого, использовавшиеся в Тюбингенском университете Эберхарда и Карла (Баден-Вюртемберг, Германия) по случаю 450-летия со дня его основания. Автор анализирует юбилейное издание университетской истории и...
Перевод с немецкого Михаила Матинского. — Санкт-Петербург: типография Морского кадетского корпуса, 1775. — 148 с. Язык русский дореформенный. Посвящение Предисловие. Республика ученых.
Москва: Наука, 1979. — 538 с. — ISBN: 5-02-002437-6. За годы существования серии Российской академии наук «Научно-биографическая литература» (НБЛ) издано более 550 научных биографий ученых, инженеров и изобретателей разных эпох, стран и народов. Ориентироваться в этом огромном собрании книг помогают периодически выпускаемые (1975, 1982, 1988 гг.) справочники-путеводители по...
Дубна: Объединенный институт ядерных исследований, 2015. — 55 с. ISBN: 978-5-9530-0405-3 Сборник содержит материалы издания «Академия наук в решениях Политбюро ЦК РКП(б)–ВКП(б)–КПСС. 1922–1991 / 1952–1958» (М.: РОССПЭН, 2010), которое подготовлено по документам РГАНИ, Архива Президента Российской Федерации и Архива РАН. Для его подготовки был выявлен и рассекречен большой...
Ставрополь: НБ СтГАУ, 2013. — 17 с. В библиографический указатель включены книги и статьи из периодических изданий по истории сельскохозяйственных машин и тракторов. Материал расположен по разделам : «Общие вопросы», «История сельскохозяйственных машин», «История трактора». Внутри раздела – книги, статьи (в хронологическом порядке).
Pergamon, 1982. — 426 p. The papers contained in this volume were presented at the Nobel Symposium which marked the eightieth anniversary of the first award of the Nobel prizes in 1901. Leading scholars from many different fields of science and technology exchange viewpoints across interdisciplinary boundaries. Participants were chosen for their special knowledge of science and...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 296 p. Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939--the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas...
Routledge, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN-13 9780136155614. — ISBN-10 0136155618. Knowledge and Power shows how science has developed in different historical settings by focusing on four episodes in the history of world science from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century. The title of this book comes from a famous saying by the English Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon:...
Wiley, 2004. — 514 p. — ISBN 13 9780471660248, 9780471244103, 0471244104 All the milestones in human ingenuity—from the discovery of fire to the invention of the microwave oven This Scientific American reference book is essential for anyone who wants to get a handle on the history of technology. More than 400 engagingly written entries explain the details and significance of...
Brill, 2019. — 565 p. — (China Studies 40). This volume provides a history of how "the human" has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes--"Parameters of Human Life," "Formations of the Human Subject," "Disciplining Knowledge," and "Deciphering Health"--it scrutinizes the development...
Londob: CRC Press, 1997. — 443 p. Volume Two of the Science in the Making Series covers the scientific advancements of the day between 1850 and 1900 as reported in the Philosophical Magazine. This period culminated with the discovery of the electron, Xrays and radioactivity. This beautifully produced volume contains facsimiles of original papers by eminent scientists including...
London: CRC Press, 1999. — 555 p. During its 200-year history, the Philosophical Magazine was transformed from a journal that published papers on all aspects of science to one that specialised in physics and more latterly in condensed matter. From 1950 it became a journal of choice for electron microscopists and in this fourth and last volume of the series, appear classic...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 720 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 115). Der österreichische Althistoriker Franz Hampl (1910–2000) gilt als ein besonders „kritischer Geist“ seiner Zeit, womit nicht nur seine Persönlichkeit umrissen, sondern insbesondere auch sein Werk und sein Wirken als Professor...
Back Bay Books, 2006. — 692 p. — ISBN 0316013854,9780316013857. An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century. Now available in a text-only paperback edition, "They Made America" is a stirring and supremely readable work of history - a celebration of the...
Springer, 2022. — 244 p. This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences - spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental...
Gale, 2002. — 422 p. — ISBN 0-7876-6046-9. Patterned after the well-received American Decades and American Eras series, World Eras is a cross-disciplinary reference series. It comprises volumes examining major civilizations that have flourished from antiquity to modern times, with a global perspective and a strong emphasis on daily life and social history. Each volume provides...
Wien: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2013. — 256 p. In 2013, the Academy is using the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss in March 1938 as an occasion to present an exhibition and to publish a catalog investigating the reactions of the Academy to the Nazi power takeover, the Academy's involvement in the Nazi domination apparatus, and the impact this had on the postwar...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 520 p. How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges,...
Rourke Publishing; Rourke Educational Media, 2013. — 52 p. — (History of America). — ISBN 978-1-62169-931-6. Young learners will be introduced to an important stage in history when they read America Enters The Industrial Revolution. This book is filled with photographs, interesting facts, discussion questions, and more, to effectively engage young learners in such a significant...
Largs: Largs & District Historical Society, 2017. — 50 p. The Hakon Hakonsson Lecture, 2016, delivered at the Valhalladrome, Viking Experience Theatre, Barrfields, Largs, Thursday, September 1, 2016. Research into the Vikings has now become multi- or inter- disciplinary and science and its various branches are making an important contribution. In the 2016 Hakon Hakonsson...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 440 p. It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed...
Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2019. — 218 p. Previous books on the history of Library and Information Science (LIS) have focused on single countries, particularly English speaking ones. Although some books have been written about the emergence of LIS in non-Anglophone European countries, they were published in languages other than English, which make them difficult to access for...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 182 p. This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news is that in many...
Yale: Yale University Press, 1968. — 330 p. The prevailing state of mind among the men of the French Enlightenment was dissatisfaction. Sometimes it took the form of good-humored exasperation with human folly and gullibility; often it blazed out in bitter anger at the cruel irrationality of man’s— or God’s—inhumanity to man. In any case, the men of the Enlightenment felt—most of...
Routledge, 2022. — 420 p. This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 202 p. This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge – Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics – which...
Oregon State University Press, 2011. — 206 p. — ISBN 978-0-87071-609-6. This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the influence of artisans, craftsmen, and other practitioners on the emergent empirical methodologies that characterized the “new sciences” of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Pamela Long offers a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 568 p. — ISBN 978-1-137-46778-2. This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 336 s. — (Materiale Textkulturen 7). Die Zeit vom 11. bis 15. Jahrhundert wird in der Forschung als lang gestreckter Siegeszug des Papiers in Europa beschrieben. Als Konsens gilt, dass der neue Beschreibstoff angesichts seiner Preisvorteile und der Verfügbarkeit seiner Rohstoffe nicht nur das zuvor dominierende Pergament verdrängte, sondern auch die...
Monographie. — AV Akademikerverlag, 2025. — 257 S. — ISBN 978-620-8-85638-0. Vorwort. Die Ursprünge der Wissenschaft und die Entwicklung der Technologie in der Geschichte der Menschheit . Neolithische Revolution. Wissenschaft, Technologie und Kultur in der Antik Welt und im Mittelalter. Renaissance. Die Entwicklung der Technologie in der Neuzeit. Geschichte und Entwicklung der...
Podręcznik. — Lublin: Politechnika Lubelska, 2011. — 261 s. — ISBN 978-83-62596-58-4. W ramach bieżącego opracowania starano się przedstawić wybrane zagadnienia z historii techniki w zakresie: metalurgii, inżynierii materiałowej, budowy i eksploatacji maszyn i transportu. Dobór zakresu materiału wynikał z faktu, iż był on przygotowany na potrzeby wykładu z przedmiotu „Historia...
Routledge, 2021. — 306 p. In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era - the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 178 p. — ISBN 978 1 52678 969 3 We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless of women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). They used their knowledge to change the world, and their...
Oxford University Press, 1954. — 920 p. The main object of this work is to provide students of technology and applied science with some humane and historical background for their studies. They may thus be helped to realize that the subject of their special training are parts of a very ancient process and are rooted in many civilizations. These volumes will not treat of such...
Oxford University Press, 1956. — 902 p. The main object of this work is to provide students of technology and applied science with some humane and historical background for their studies. They may thus be helped to realize that the subject of their special training are parts of a very ancient process and are rooted in many civilizations. These volumes will not treat of such...
Oxford University Press, 1957. — 835 p. The main object of this work is to provide students of technology and applied science with some humane and historical background for their studies. They may thus be helped to realize that the subject of their special training are parts of a very ancient process and are rooted in many civilizations. These volumes will not treat of such...
Chelsea House Pub, 2007. — 128 p. — (Milestones in American History). — ISBN 978-0791093504. Bolstered by biographical sketches, extensive photographs, excerpts from primary source documents, and first-person narratives, each title in this history series presents a three-dimensional look at a particular event and those people who not only played an integral part in making it...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the...
Edited by Vera M. Kutzinski, Ottmar Ette. — University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 618 p. In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and...
Pen & Sword, 2022. — 209 p. Over the years many weird and wonderful types of transport have come and gone, some of which succeeded against all odds, others that spectacularly failed, and some that never got beyond a designer's drawing board. Railway engines driven by horses, for example. Or maybe the surprising number of cars, boats and trains driven by aeroplane propellers. In...
Brill, 2013. — 373 p. — (Global economics history series ; volume 10). — ISBN 978-90-04-24535-8. Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the...
Тошкент: Имом Бухорий республика илмий - маърифий маркази нашриёти, 2007. — 924 с. Ушбу изоҳли луғат тарихчилар, археологлар, этнографлар, Олий ўқув юртларининг талабалари ва қадимги давр моддий - маданияти билан қизиққан кенг ўқувчилар оммаси учун мўлжалланган.
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1981. — 96 с. Қазақстан ғылымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш Қазақ ССР Ғылым академиясының академигі, техника ғылымдарының докторы, профессор, Қазақ ССР-інің еңбек сіңірген ғылым қайраткері, белгілі химик-ғалым Әбікен Бектұрұлы Бектұровқа арналған
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1989. — 58 с. Қазақстан ғалымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткiш Қазақ ССР Ғылым Академиясының академигi, тарих ғылымдарының докторы, профессор Ақай Нүсіпбекұлы Нүсіпбековке арналrан.
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1981. — 58 с. Қазақстан ғылымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш Қазақ ССР Ғылым Академиясының академигі, биология ғылымдарының докторы, профессор, Қазақ ССР-інің еңбек сіңірген ғылым қайраткері, белгілі ғалым-физиолог Нәйля Оразғұлқызы Базановаға арналған
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1981. — 54 с. Қазақстан ғылымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш Қазақ ССР Ғылым академиясының академигі, Қазақ ССР Ғылым академиясы физика-математика бөлімшесінің академик-секретары, математика саласындағы көрнекті ғалым Орымбек Ахметбекұлы Жәутіковке арналған.
Алма-Ата: Наука, 1989. — 73 с. Қазақстан ғылымдарының биобиблиографиялары сериясының жалғасы болып табылатын бұл көрсеткіш Қазақ ССР Ғылым академиясының академигі, экономика ғылымдарының докторы, профессор Сақтаған Бәйішұлы Бәйішевке арналған.
Под редакцией А.Ф. Денисова. — Вильнюс, 2021. — 684 с. — ISBN 978-609-8211-32-0. Книга посвящена уникальной истории создания, развития и научно-технической деятельности Вильнюсского научно-исследовательского института радиоизмерительных приборов – крупнейшего научно-исследовательского центра радиоэлектронного профиля в странах Балтии. Созданное в конце 1944 года предприятие...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1860. — 268 с. Библиотека технических и промышленных производств. Воздушные шары; Различные роды освещения; Паровые машины (железные дороги, локомотивы и пароходы)
Саратов: Институт истории и международных отношений CГУ имени Н.Г. Чернышевского, 2019. — 166 с. Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для студентов 4 курса очной формы обучения направления подготовки «История» (бакалавриат). В пособии представлена программа курса, рабочие планы лекционных и практических занятий, тексты исследований и учебных пособий по ключевым проблемам...
Монографія. — К.: Талком, 2023. — 440 с. При всій важливості історії техніки нашої країни сьогодні не існує видання, яке представляло б її в цілому з достатньою повнотою. Пропонована колективна монографія має на меті частково і тимчасово компенсувати цей недолік хоча б щодо деяких важливих напрямів розвитку техніки в Україні. Видання розраховане на фахівців в галузі історії...
(под редакцией А.Ф. Денисова). — Вильнюс, 2022. — 584 с. Книга посвящена истории создания и развития осциллографов в СССР. Эти устройства созданы исследовательскими центрами четырех городов: Вильнюса, Минска, Львова и Горького. Историю каждого из центров описывают известные личности, многие годы работавшие ведущими специалистами этих научно-исследовательских институтов. Также...
Москва: Эксмо, 2020. — 128 с.: ил. — (Подарочные издания. Наука). Великолепно иллюстрированная книга знаменитого дизайнера Рэйчел Игнатовски посвящена 50 выдающимся женщинам науки древнего и современного мира. Героини книги – физик и химик Мария Кюри, американский математик Кэтрин Джонсон, рассчитавшая траекторию полета «Аполлона-11» на Луну, Валентина Терешкова, первая...
Москва: Издательство литературы по строительству, 1965. — 111 с. Книга содержит основные сведения о принципах работы ртутных выпрямителей, их технические характеристики и описание основных узлов. Приведено описание работ па монтажу, переборке и формовке металлических ртутных выпрямителей. Дано описание подготовительных работ и требуемая проектная документация. Приведены...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1860. — 268 с. Книга технических и промышленных производств. Бумага. Книгопечатание. Химиотипия. Самопечатание. Резьба на дереве. Гравирование и печатание на стали и меди. Литография
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Ярославль: ЯрГУ, 2016. — 40 с. Пособие содержит рекомендации по подготовке к семинарским занятиям по курсу, перечень тем и вопросов, подлежащих самостоятельному изучению, списки источников и литературы. Предназначено для студентов, изучающих дисциплину «История естествознания и техники». Предисловие. Науки и техника Древнего Востока. Наука и...
Київ: Українська Академія Наук, 1925. — 34 с. Українська Академія Наук являє собою в буквальному розумінні дитину революції, – повстати могла і розгорнути свою роботу тільки тоді. Коли впав старий режим, який не визнавав не тільки політичних, ба навіть культурно-національних потреб українського народу, не визнавав самого права його бути нацією. Академія Наук, як завершення й...
Каталог ; Нижегор. гос. ун-т им. Н.И. Лобачевского и др. ; сост.: Н.В. Горская, Э.Е. Митякова, Т.А. Берент. — Нижний Новгород : Изд-во ННГУ, 2010. — 158 с. : фот., ил.. — (XX век. Люди, события, идеи) В каталоге представлены материалы о педагогической и научной деятельности В.Л. Гинзбурга, о его влиянии на научные судьбы своих нижегородских учеников, об участии в становлении...
София: Нариздат, 1947. — 318 с. Беломраморната Елада. Анаксагор и Демокрит. За чистите умозрения. Търсене на абсолютната истина. Аристотел като биолог. След Аристотел. Републиканският Рим. Поет-натурфилософ. Императорският Рим и Плиний. Към залез. Средните векове и науката. Феодализъм, църква, араби и схоластика. Зората. Схоластици и енциклопедисти на XIII век. Алберт Велики....
София: Нариздат, 1947. — 406 с. Разсъмване и пробуждане. Немската натурфилософия. Фолфганг Гьоте. Жан-Батист-Пиер-Антоан-де-Моне, Шевалие Де-Ламарк. Първите боеве за еволюцинната идея. При изворите за учението за клетката. Матиас Шлайден и Теодор Шван. Теодор Шван и Рудолф Вирхов. Творецът на научната ембриология. Родоначалници и първоучители на научната геология. Зараждане на...
Статья. Ретроспектива. Control Engineering Россия. 2023. №3 (102). С. 68 — 71. Для автоматического управления лучше всего подходит электродвигатель с регулировочными характеристиками классического двигателя постоянного тока, однако без щеточно-коллекторного узла (источника искрения) и других недостатков механического коммутатора. Как и когда изобретателям удалось создать такое...
Статья. Ретроспектива. Control Engineering Россия. 2023. №2 (101). С. 68 — 71. Описанные в статье электромеханотронные преобразователи — это узлы электроприводов, генераторов и измерительных систем, появившихся в начале XX в. Их изобретение помогло обеспечить электронный контроль электрических машин и привело к появлению новой науки — электромеханотроники
Монографія. — Lambert Academic Publishing, 2025. — 340 с. — ISBN 978-620-8-44095-4. У монографії коротко викладена світова історія розвитку науки і техніки. Особлива увага звернена на виникнення знарядь праці, технічних засобів побуту та виробництва, основні технічні винаходи та наукові відкриття в історії людства. Здійснена класифікація природничих наук та наук про...
Ленинград: Государственное издательство, 1925. — 198 с. Настоящая книга, посвященна описанию главных путей, по которым шло развитие мировой техники последнего полувека. История техники, это—история борьбы человека с мертвой материей. Это - увлекательный рассказ о неугасимом его стремлении подчинить себе непокорные силы природы, овладеть ее бесценными скрытыми дарами, покорить и...
Москва: Студия Артемия Лебедева, 2015. — 412 с. Эта книга посвящена эволюции простого карандаша - одного из самых незамысловатых и обыденных предметов нашего обихода. Обращаясь к сотням источников, автор показывает, какая длинная, путаная, полная экспериментов и открытий история стоит за превращением кисточки с коротким ворсом в деревянную оправу с графитовым стержнем. Все эти...
СПб.: Лань, 2022. — 272 c. — (Учебники для вузов. Специальная литература). — ISBN 978-5-8114-3408-4. В учебном пособии излагаются принципиальные, узловые моменты истории науки и техники на основе сочетания социально экономического и социальнокультурного подходов. В нем используется все позитивное, накопленное в отечественных и зарубежных историконаучных и историкотехнических...
Ижевск: Регулярная и хаотическая динамика, 2001. — 208 с. В книге собраны основные математические и естественно-научные работы периода 1900-1912 г. Одно из важных мест занимают его доклады на математических конгрессах и геттингенские лекции. Большинство работ ранее на русский язык не переводились. Представляют интерес для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся математикой и...
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