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Author : James Edward McClellan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801883590
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Author : Parragon
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 9780890516188
World of Science explores God's creation all around us, from the furthest star in the universe to the smallest atom under our feet. Through six accessible sections, children will gain an understanding of the importance of science in our every-changing world. This book brings a fresh and engaging approach to all aspects of the subject, while a final section of practical activities and experiments makes the application of science fun and enjoyable. -- Cover, p. [4].
Author : World Book, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780716633969
An eight-volume reference set which explores many aspects of science, including sections on career opportunities pertaining to various fields of science.
Author : Denise Albanese
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822317685
In New Science, New World Denise Albanese examines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century--modern science and colonialism. Drawing on the discourse analysis of Foucault, the ideology-critique of Marxist cultural studies, and de Certeau's assertion that the modern world produces itself through alterity, she argues that the beginnings of colonialism are intertwined in complex fashion with the ways in which the literary became the exotic "other" and undervalued opposite of the scientific. Albanese reads the inaugurators of the scientific revolution against the canonical authors of early modern literature, discussing Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems and Bacon's New Atlantis as well as Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's The Tempest. She examines how the newness or "novelty" of investigating nature is expressed through representations of the New World, including the native, the feminine, the body, and the heavens. "New" is therefore shown to be a double sign, referring both to the excitement associated with a knowledge oriented away from past practices, and to the oppression and domination typical of the colonialist enterprise. Exploring the connections between the New World and the New Science, and the simultaneously emerging patterns of thought and forms of writing characteristic of modernity, Albanese insists that science is at its inception a form of power-knowledge, and that the modern and postmodern division of "Two Cultures," the literary and the scientific, has its antecedents in the early modern world. New Science, New World makes an important contribution to feminist, new historicist, and cultural materialist debates about the extent to which the culture of seventeenth-century England is proto-modern. It will offer scholars and students from a wide range of fields a new critical model for historical practice.
Author : Laura Garwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226284166
Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.
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Publisher : Parragon Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781405416351
This book is divided into six sections: matter and chemicals; energy, motion and machines; electricity and magnetism; sound and light; earth and life; and space and time. Also includes a section with experiments.
Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781001286334
Author : Jay Wile
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780989042420
Author : David Deming
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786456426
Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion. Specific topics include technological innovations during the Middle Ages; Islamic science; the Crusades; Gothic cathedrals; and the founding of Western universities. Close attention is given to such figures as Paul the Apostle, Hippolytus, Lactantius, Cyril of Alexandria, Hypatia, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and the Prophet Mohammed.
Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316518175
An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.