Category: History Philosophy

By Johanna Levelt Sengers

ISBN-10: 9069843579

ISBN-13: 9789069843575

Among 1890 and 1906, pioneering scientists within the Netherlands reached an figuring out of section separation and fluid blend criticality that was once some distance prior to its time. This ebook narrates the tale of those profound discoveries, and info the collaboration among Dutch physicists and Nobel prize winners, Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923) on the collage of Amsterdam, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) on the collage of Leiden.

By John Woods

ISBN-10: 0511072813

ISBN-13: 9780511072819

ISBN-10: 0521009340

ISBN-13: 9780521009348

ISBN-10: 0521810949

ISBN-13: 9780521810944

ISBN-10: 1280418494

ISBN-13: 9781280418495

One may anticipate the precise sciences of common sense and arithmetic to be with out clash. in reality those disciplines are rife with inner divisions among usually incompatible structures. This publication explores it sounds as if intractable disagreements in common sense and the rules of arithmetic and units out clash answer suggestions that circumvent those stalemates.

By Melinda E. Cooper

ISBN-10: 029598791X

ISBN-13: 9780295987910

Targeting the interval among the Seventies and the current, "Life as Surplus" is a pointed and demanding learn of the connection among politics, economics, technology, and cultural values within the usa this present day. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the background of biotechnology can't be understood with no bearing in mind the simultaneous upward thrust of neo-liberalism as a political strength and an financial coverage. From the advance of recombinant DNA expertise within the Seventies to the second one Bush administration's rules on stem mobilephone learn, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with becoming inner contradictions of the commercialized existence sciences.The biotech revolution relocated fiscal creation on the genetic, microbial, and mobile point. Taking as her element of departure the belief that lifestyles has been drawn into the circuits of worth production, Cooper underscores the family among clinical, fiscal, political, and social practices. In penetrating analyses of Reagan-era technological know-how coverage, the militarization of the existence sciences, HIV politics, pharmaceutical imperialism, tissue engineering, stem telephone technology, and the pro-life circulation, the writer examines the speculative impulses that experience lively the expansion of the bio-economy. on the very center of the hot post-industrial economic system is the transformation of organic existence into surplus value."Life as Surplus" bargains a transparent evaluate of either the transformative, healing dimensions of the modern lifestyles sciences and the violence, legal responsibility, and debt servitude crystallizing round the rising bio-economy. Melinda Cooper is a study fellow with the Centre for Biomedicine and Society, Kings university London.

By Omnes R.

ISBN-10: 0691115303

ISBN-13: 9780691115306

The mysterious good looks, concord, and consistency of arithmetic as soon as prompted thinker Hilary Putnam to time period its life a "miracle." Now, advances within the knowing of physics recommend that the rules of arithmetic are encompassed via the legislation of nature, an concept that sheds new gentle on either arithmetic and physics.The philosophical dating among arithmetic and the common sciences is the topic of Converging Realities, the most recent paintings by way of one of many top thinkers at the topic. in keeping with an easy yet strong thought, it indicates that the axioms wanted for the math utilized in physics may also generate essentially each box of latest natural arithmetic. It additionally offers a starting place for present investigations in string idea and different parts of physics.This method of the character of arithmetic seriously isn't new, however it turned overshadowed by means of formalism close to the tip of 19th century. the talk grew to become ultimately into an unique discussion among mathematicians and philosophers, as though physics and nature didn't exist. This unsatisfactory state of affairs used to be enforced via the doubtful status of actual truth in quantum mechanics.The contemporary advances within the interpretation of quantum mechanics (as defined in Quantum Philosophy, additionally through Omns) have now reconciled the rules of physics with objectivity and customary feel. In Converging Realities, Roland Omns is likely one of the first students to contemplate the relationship of normal legislation with arithmetic.

By A. Meadows

ISBN-10: 0230220207

ISBN-13: 9780230220201

ISBN-10: 0230593933

ISBN-13: 9780230593930

Sir Norman Lockyer left Nature, the world's top clinical magazine, as his lasting memorial. yet his lifestyles, and debatable theories, are a major a part of technological know-how background. His principles have been on the vanguard of public debate, and ranged from the bright to the perverse. This enjoyable ebook is an interesting perception into his eventful existence.

By Bryan Bunch, Alexander Hellemans

ISBN-10: 0618221239

ISBN-13: 9780618221233

In contrast to a regular heritage of technology and know-how, this reference bargains a chronology of almost all that has happened in those areas-including missed precursors and fake starts off. protecting the Stone to the data Age, each one bankruptcy represents an enormous department during this historical past with a timeline of achievements in numerous fields and an outline of the advance's effect on society in old context. the quantity contains b&w illustrations and extra steered analyzing via box. Bunch is the coauthor of The Penguin table Encyclopedia of technology and arithmetic.

By Robert J Flower Ph.D.

ISBN-10: 0975950118

ISBN-13: 9780975950111

ISBN-10: 1435632796

ISBN-13: 9781435632790

This ebook is a practical method of the topic of human capability. during this sequel to "Decoding power: Pathways to Understanding," the reader will locate real-life purposes for using the foundations of nature and the Doctrine of strength. in the paintings the subject matter of nature as a lifestyles version blooms, and that's the place the reader starts off in bankruptcy one. in the course of the publication, the reader turns into conscious of a number of very important fundamentals --- improved realizing and larger intelligence is accomplished once we take care of evidence and absolutes. once we decode our strength, the target of feat is healthier learned once we base ourselves in indisputable rules! those indisputable rules are most sensible present in nature! through the publication, the reader will locate interesting purposes of its contents. this kind of is the adventure of the area in the course of the lens of the usual considering and Intelligence Matrix. an easy instance is how we glance at issues throughout the precept of concentration. it will convey us the underlying concentration of no matter what is being provided to us and as soon as this happens, the reader can then make the most of the opposite rules awarded to raised comprehend what's going and the way to deal with a variety of matters.

By J J C Smart

Originally released in 1963. In an introductory bankruptcy the writer argues that philosophy needs to be greater than the paintings of clarifying suggestion and that it may trouble itself with outlining a scientifically believable international view. Early chapters care for phenomenalism and the truth of theoretical entities, and with the relation among the actual and organic sciences. unfastened will, problems with time and house and man’s position in nature are coated in later chapters.

By Andrew Webster

ISBN-10: 033351064X

ISBN-13: 9780333510643

ISBN-10: 0333510658

ISBN-13: 9780333510650

ISBN-10: 1349218758

ISBN-13: 9781349218752

By Roger P. Roess, Gene Sansone

ISBN-10: 3642304834

ISBN-13: 9783642304835

ISBN-10: 3642304842

ISBN-13: 9783642304842

The Wheels That Drove New York tells the attention-grabbing tale of the way a public transportation approach helped remodel a small buying and selling neighborhood at the southern tip of long island island to an international monetary capital that's domestic to greater than 8,000,000 humans. From the earliest days of horse-drawn conveyances to the wonders of 1 of the world's greatest and best subways, the tale hyperlinks the constructing heritage of town itself to the expansion and improvement of its public transit approach. alongside the best way, the foremost position of performed by means of the inventors, developers, financiers, and bosses of the approach are highlighted.

New York begun as a fur buying and selling outpost run by way of the Dutch West India corporation, validated after the invention and exploration of latest York Harbor and its nice river through Henry Hudson. It used to be finally taken over through the British, and the very good harbor supplied for a transforming into middle of exchange. alternate spurred undefined, firstly these had to help the transport undefined, later spreading to varied items for export. whilst DeWitt Clinton outfitted the Erie Canal, which associated manhattan Harbor to the good Lakes, big apple grew to become the heart of alternate for all items getting into and out of the mid-west.

As grew, ny turned a tycoon for immigrants looking shelter in a brand new land of chance. The City's inhabitants endured to extend. either water and land limitations, even if, compelled nearly the complete inhabitants to dwell south of what's now 14th road. Densities grew dangerously, and taken either disorder and clash to the poorer quarters of the 5 cities. To extend, town had to triumph over land and water boundaries, basically with a public transportation system.

By the time of the Civil conflict, town was once at a brink. The horse-drawn public conveyances that had supplied all the public transportation companies because the 1820's had to be changed with whatever greater and effective. First got here the increased railroads, before everything powered by means of steam engines. With the discovery of electrical energy and the electrical traction motor, the elevated's have been electrified, and a trolley procedure emerged. eventually, in 1904, the town opened its first subway. From there, the City's development to northern ny and to the "outer boroughs" of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx exploded.

The Wheels That Drove New York takes us during the modern, and discusses the various demanding situations that the transit approach has needed to face through the years. It additionally lines the conversion of the procedure from absolutely inner most operations (through the increased railways) to the absolutely public procedure that exists this present day, and the issues that this change has created alongside the way.