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Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
This book provides the first comprehensive historical account of
the evolution of scientific traditions in astronomy, astrophysics,
and the space sciences within the Max Planck Society. Structured
with in-depth archival research, interviews with protagonists,
unpublished photographs, and an extensive bibliography, it follows
a unique history: from the post-war relaunch of physical sciences
in West Germany, to the spectacular developments and successes of
cosmic sciences in the second half of the 20th century, up to the
emergence of multi-messenger astronomy. It reveals how the Society
acquired national and international acclaim in becoming one of the
world's most productive research organizations in these fields.
This book offers an entirely new perspective on the alleged
incompatibility between Aristotelian philosophy and the
mathematical methods and principles that form the basis of modern
science. It surveys the tradition of the Oxford Calculators from
its beginnings in the fourteenth century until Leibniz and the
philosophy of the seventeenth century and explores how their
various techniques of quantification expanded the conceptual and
methodological limits of Aristotelianism.
From the hair of a famous dead poet to botanical ornaments and meat
pies, the subjects of this book are dynamic, organic artifacts. A
cross-disciplinary collection of essays, Organic Supplements
examines the interlaced relationships between natural things and
human beings in early modern and eighteenth-century Europe. The
material qualities of things as living organisms - and things that
originate from living organisms - enabled a range of critical
actions and experiences to take place for the people who wore,
used, consumed, or perceived them.
The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of
understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how
the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes
at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature
itself. During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the
"health humanities" has focused upon what studies of literature
contribute to the understandings and the practical work-the
"worldly work"-of healthcare. Such a project aims at developing
healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come
to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering.
Literary Studies and Well-Being turns this inside out by examining
the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which
allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline of literary
studies in new ways. The ebook editions of this book are available
open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University
of Oklahoma.
Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and its 'Book and Art Room' of 1779,
edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the
first time this institution in the context of scientific,
museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical
developments. The key moment was the decision in 1779 to give a
free interpretation to the testament of its founder, the Mennonite
entrepreneur Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778): stimulated by
the naturalist Martinus van Marum, the Foundation's board decided
to build an impressive museum room and to establish a natural
science collection. The institution thus entered an era in which
older scientific and collecting traditions engaged with new
developments towards a research institution and a public museum of
natural history, physics and art. Contributors: Ellinoor S.
Bergvelt, Terry van Druten, Arnold Heumakers, Eric Jorink, Paul
Knolle, Debora Meijers, Wijnand Mijnhardt, Bert Sliggers, Koenraad
Vos, and Holger Zaunstoeck.
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