Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
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Release : 2007
Category : Biology
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Page : 148 pages
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Release : 2007
Category : Biology
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Author : J. L. Heilbron
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Page : 195 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1992
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Author : J. L. Heilbron
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Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1989
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Author : John L. Heilbron
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Release : 1981
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Author : Russell McCormmach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400870178
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences is a continuing series of volumes comprising articles that elucidate the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. The articles offered in Volume 5 share a common theme: a concern with modern physics and its relation to other scientific disciplines and to its cultural and material context. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Page : 404 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biology
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Author : Conference on Laboratory History. 2, 2001, Newport News, Va..
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2001
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Physics
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Author : Lillian Hoddeson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521541176
This 1993 book explores how the 'critical assembly' of scientists at Los Alamos created the first atomic bombs.
Author : P. Forman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402002502
To some philosophers, seeking to understand the human condition, technology is a necessary guide. But to think through the complex human phenomenon of technology we must tackle philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, moral issues, comparative civilizational studies, and the economics of specific industrial and military technologies in their historical contexts. The philoso pher wants to grasp the technological factor in this troubled world, even as we see it is only one factor, and that it does not speak openly for itself. Put directly, our human troubles to a considerable extent have been transformed, exaggerated, distorted, even degraded, perhaps transcended, by what engi neers and scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians, have wrought. But our problems are ancient, problems of dominations, struggles, survival, values in conflict, greed and insane sadisms. To get some conceptual light on the social reality which seems immediately to be so complicated, a philosopher will need to learn from the historians of technology. A few years ago, the philosopher Elisabeth Straker concluded that "a his torical philosophy of technology [is required] since history - and history alone - provides all those concepts that form part of the repertoire of the philosoph ical analysis of technology". And she added that this goes far beyond the triviality that like other cultural achievements technology has its historical development. Now historical comprehension is no substitute for a logical methodology in the analysis of technological problems.