Author: Dan Graves
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825497704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The personal stories of forty-eight historic scientists and an overview of their contributions to their field and faith.
Scientists of Faith
Author: Dan Graves
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825497704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The personal stories of forty-eight historic scientists and an overview of their contributions to their field and faith.
Publisher: Kregel Publications
ISBN: 9780825497704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The personal stories of forty-eight historic scientists and an overview of their contributions to their field and faith.
Living Biographies of Great Philosophers
Author: Henry Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The philosophical personalities of the world represent an adventure in thinking. And when we examine the lives of the philosophers we find that the procession of a man's thoughts can be as exiting a spectacle as the pageantry of a man's deeds.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The philosophical personalities of the world represent an adventure in thinking. And when we examine the lives of the philosophers we find that the procession of a man's thoughts can be as exiting a spectacle as the pageantry of a man's deeds.
Biographies of Scientific Objects
Author: Lorraine Daston
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226136721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Looks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226136721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Looks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.
Incompleteness
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
"An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327604
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
"An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
American Scientists
Author: Charles W. Carey
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108079
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Profiles more than 200 American men and women who made significant contributions to science during the twentieth century.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108079
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Profiles more than 200 American men and women who made significant contributions to science during the twentieth century.
Scientists
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123018980
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788123018980
Category : Astronomers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Scientists of the Ancient World
Author: Margaret J. Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780766011113
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This volume discusses the lives and contributions of ten influential scholars from the early years of scientific research, including Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Pliny, Galen, Ptolemy, Hypatia, and Al-Khwarizmi. Authors Margaret J. Anderson and Karen F. Stephenson also examine the lasting importance for the modern Western world of the mathematical, philosophical, mechanical, and scientific ideas of these ten great scientists.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780766011113
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This volume discusses the lives and contributions of ten influential scholars from the early years of scientific research, including Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Pliny, Galen, Ptolemy, Hypatia, and Al-Khwarizmi. Authors Margaret J. Anderson and Karen F. Stephenson also examine the lasting importance for the modern Western world of the mathematical, philosophical, mechanical, and scientific ideas of these ten great scientists.
Marie Curie
Author: Lori Mortensen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404837310
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Because of her amazing discoveries, Marie Curie became the first woman in history to receive a Nobel Prize for Physics, and today is remembered as one of the most important scientists of all time.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404837310
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Because of her amazing discoveries, Marie Curie became the first woman in history to receive a Nobel Prize for Physics, and today is remembered as one of the most important scientists of all time.
The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography
Author: Thomas Söderqvist
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317028902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the production of science. Not least is the realization that the role of science in culture is much more accessible when presented through the lives of its practitioners. Taken as a genre, such biographies play an important role in the public understanding of science. In recent years there has been an increasing number of monographs and collections about biography in general and literary biography in particular. However, biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors have rarely been the topic of scholarly inquiry. As such this volume of essays will be welcomed by those interested in the genre of science biography, and who wish to re-examine its history, foundational problems and theoretical implications. Borrowing approaches and methods from cultural studies and the history, philosophy and sociology of science, the contributions cover a broad range of subjects, periods and locations. By presenting such a rich diversity of essays, the volume is able to chart the reoccurring conceptual problems and devices that have influenced scientific biographies from classical antiquity to the present day. In so doing it provides a compelling overview of the history of the genre, suggesting that the different valuations given scientific biography over time have been largely fuelled by vested professional interests.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317028902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the production of science. Not least is the realization that the role of science in culture is much more accessible when presented through the lives of its practitioners. Taken as a genre, such biographies play an important role in the public understanding of science. In recent years there has been an increasing number of monographs and collections about biography in general and literary biography in particular. However, biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors have rarely been the topic of scholarly inquiry. As such this volume of essays will be welcomed by those interested in the genre of science biography, and who wish to re-examine its history, foundational problems and theoretical implications. Borrowing approaches and methods from cultural studies and the history, philosophy and sociology of science, the contributions cover a broad range of subjects, periods and locations. By presenting such a rich diversity of essays, the volume is able to chart the reoccurring conceptual problems and devices that have influenced scientific biographies from classical antiquity to the present day. In so doing it provides a compelling overview of the history of the genre, suggesting that the different valuations given scientific biography over time have been largely fuelled by vested professional interests.
Scientist
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984898353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Few biologists have been as productive, ground-breaking, or controversial as Edward Osborne Wilson. At 92 years old, he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field today. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in general and ants in particular, his field work on them and on all social insects has vastly expanded our knowledge of their many species and fascinating ways of being. This work led to his 1975 book Sociobiology, which created an intellectual firestorm with his contention that all animal behavior, including that of humans, is governed by the laws of evolution and genetics. Wilson has since become a leading voice on the crucial importance of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize science and the humanities in a fruitful way. A towering figure in his own right, Richard Rhodes has had complete and unfettered access to Wilson, his associates, and his papers in writing this book. The result is one of the most accomplished, anticipated and urgently necessary scientific biographies in years.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984898353
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Few biologists have been as productive, ground-breaking, or controversial as Edward Osborne Wilson. At 92 years old, he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field today. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in general and ants in particular, his field work on them and on all social insects has vastly expanded our knowledge of their many species and fascinating ways of being. This work led to his 1975 book Sociobiology, which created an intellectual firestorm with his contention that all animal behavior, including that of humans, is governed by the laws of evolution and genetics. Wilson has since become a leading voice on the crucial importance of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize science and the humanities in a fruitful way. A towering figure in his own right, Richard Rhodes has had complete and unfettered access to Wilson, his associates, and his papers in writing this book. The result is one of the most accomplished, anticipated and urgently necessary scientific biographies in years.