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Kunstkammer - Laboratorium - Bühne
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 252.00This volume launches a new, eight-volume series entitled Theatrum Scientiarum on the history of science and the media which has arisen from the work of the Berlin special research project on "Performative Cultures" under the aegis of the Theatre Studies Department of the Free University. The volume, authored by distinguished academics, examines the... more...
Spektakuläre Experimente
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 224.00This volume is the third of the projected eight volumes in the series Theatrum Scientiarum, which examines the founding phase of art and science in the modern age from a new perspective. It focuses on the question of how experiments and their execution have contributed to a fundamental change in the cultural landscape since the Early Modern Age. The... more...
Die Erfindung der Messkunst
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 34.77Hauptbeschreibung Das hohe Niveau der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften im antiken Griechenland beeindruckt bis heute. Doch wie kam es dazu, dass diese Wissensfelder so früh einen so hohen Stellenwert erreichen konnten? Dieses anspruchsvolle Sachbuch zeigt anhand von chronologisch geordneten Kapiteln, dass der beeindruckenden Messkunst der Griechen... more...
Australia's Fossil Heritage
CSIRO Publishing 2012; US$ 62.95A detailed examination of Australia?s fossil heritage revealing the richness and diversity of Australia's prehistory. more...
Plotting the Globe
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 73.00People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and the stories of the intrepid adventurers, scientists, and seafarers who shaped our picture of the world... more...
The Genealogical Science
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations—their histories of migration and genealogical connections to other present-day... more...
Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life
Springer 2012; US$ 99.99This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii's career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists, and plant physiologists inscribed... more...
Newton
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 21.95When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia , a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws... more...
The Jesuit and the Skull
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.00From the New York Times bestselling author of Fermat?s Last Theorem , ?an extraordinary story?( Philadelphia Inquirer ) of discovery, evolution, science, and faith. In 1929, French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a part of a group of scientists that uncovered a skull that became known as Peking Man, a key evolutionary link that... more...
Pendulum
Atria Books 2007; Not AvailableIn 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that comprised the cream of Parisian society, including... more...









