Author: J. L. Heilbron
Publisher: University of California, Office for History of Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science Around 1800
Author: J. L. Heilbron
Publisher: University of California, Office for History of Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher: University of California, Office for History of Science & Technology
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable
Author: Sarah C Alexander
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Victorians were obsessed with the empirical but were frequently frustrated by the sizeable gaps in their understanding of the world around them. This study examines how literature and popular culture adopted the emerging language of physics to explain the unknown or ‘imponderable’.
Imponderables
Author: David Feldman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061745022
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Why does an "X" stand for a kiss? Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum? Why do people cry at happy endings? Why do you never see baby pigeons? Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® series, Feldman's book arms readers with information about everyday life -- from science, history, and politics to sports, television, and radio -- that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don't have. Where else will you learn what makes women open their mouths when applying mascara?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061745022
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Why does an "X" stand for a kiss? Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum? Why do people cry at happy endings? Why do you never see baby pigeons? Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® series, Feldman's book arms readers with information about everyday life -- from science, history, and politics to sports, television, and radio -- that encyclopedias, dictionaries, and almanacs just don't have. Where else will you learn what makes women open their mouths when applying mascara?
Orr's Circle of the Sciences: Elementary chemistry of the imponderable agents and of inorganic bodies
Author: William Somerville Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Sciences and Cultures
Author: E. Mendelsohn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400984294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the sense of problem and crisis that they have projected. Among the of movements concerned about the earlier responses were the development social responsibility of scientists and technological practitioners. There is little doubt that this was a direct outgrowth of the role of science in the war epitomized by the successful construction and catastrophic use of the atomic bomb. The recognition of the deep social utility of science, and especially its role as an instrument of war, fostered curiosity about the earlier develop ment of scientific disciplines and institutional forms. The history of science as an explicit diSCipline with full-time practitioners can be seen as an attempt to locate science in temporal space - first in its intellectual form and second ly in its institutional or social form. The sociology of science, while certainly having roots in the pre-war work of Robert K.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400984294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Anthropological approaches to the sciences have developed as part of a broader tradition concerned about the place of the sciences in today's world and in some basic sense concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the sciences. In the years since the second World War, we have seen the emergence of a number of different attempts both to analyze and to cope with the successes of the sciences, their broad penetration into social life, and the sense of problem and crisis that they have projected. Among the of movements concerned about the earlier responses were the development social responsibility of scientists and technological practitioners. There is little doubt that this was a direct outgrowth of the role of science in the war epitomized by the successful construction and catastrophic use of the atomic bomb. The recognition of the deep social utility of science, and especially its role as an instrument of war, fostered curiosity about the earlier develop ment of scientific disciplines and institutional forms. The history of science as an explicit diSCipline with full-time practitioners can be seen as an attempt to locate science in temporal space - first in its intellectual form and second ly in its institutional or social form. The sociology of science, while certainly having roots in the pre-war work of Robert K.
A New Philosophy of Matter, showing the identity of all the imponderables, and the influence which electricity exerts over matter ... New and revised edition, with additions, corrections, and an ... appendix upon electricity as a curative agent, by A. H. Stevens
Author: George BREWSTER (Professor.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Chemical news and Journal of physical science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Independent Spirits
Author: Logie Barrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317268865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and search for knowledge that were so central in plebeian circles and in certain, very important parts of the labour movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317268865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and search for knowledge that were so central in plebeian circles and in certain, very important parts of the labour movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This title will be of interest to students of history.