(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Amos Funkenstein
ISBN: 9780691181356
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241600979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Luke O'Neill
ISBN: 9780241994122
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kendall Haven
ISBN: 9781591582649
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This ready reference presents fascinating facts about 100 amazing inventions, a panoramic overview of the history of science, and a collection of engaging reads.
Inventions are the stuff of dreams, quickly gaining widespread use, becoming central to culture, and ultimately changing our lives.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Crump
ISBN: 9781841195520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A fascinating exploration of scientific advances
(Paperback)
By: Jim Endersby
ISBN: 9780099471240
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Includes stories that reveal how DNA determines the characteristics of the adult organism.
(Paperback)
By: Clifford Conner
ISBN: 9781560257486
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2005
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2005
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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Roll over Galileo. You, too, Bacon, Newton, and Descartes. When it comes to taking credit for creating modern science, you fellows have held the limelight far too long.
(Hardback)
By: Martha J. Bailey
ISBN: 9780874369212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fascinating biographical dictionary surveys the American women who have made significant contributions to major fields of scientific endeavor since 1950.
(Hardback)
By: John W. Humphrey
ISBN: 9780313327636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As he touches on the common elements of ancient technologyenergy, machines, mining, metallurgy, ceramics, agriculture, engineering, transportation, and communicationHumphrey asks questions central to understanding the impact of ancient tools on the modern world: What prompts change
(Hardback)
By: Frederic Lawrence Holmes
ISBN: 9780691634791
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lorraine Daston
ISBN: 9780691248509
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: James A. Secord
ISBN: 9780691634746
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: James A. Secord
ISBN: 9780691605845
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780099554271
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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No longer reviled, curiosity is now celebrated.
By examining the rise of curiosity from the dawn of modern science to today, we can examine how it functions in science, how it is spun, packaged and sold, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may ask.
(Paperback)
By: Thomas Goldstein
ISBN: 9780306806377
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1995
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Dawn of Modern Science explores the beginnings of science from the cosmology of ancient Greece to the cataclysmic conflict between the Medieval understanding of nature through spiritual contemplation
(Hardback)
By: Antony Milne
ISBN: 9780275967475
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Puts "End-of-the-millennium" fears, both ancient and modern, in a scientific context.
(Hardback)
By: Cole W. Williams
ISBN: 9781543940886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Hardback)
By: David Oldroyd
ISBN: 9780313332296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One concept that greatly aided the scientific advance of the earth sciences was that of geological cycles. This work traces the history of this concept from the ancient philosophers to the modern times. It is useful for students researching the earth sciences and the history and nature of the scientific understanding of the world around us.
(Paperback)
By: WB Anunnaki
ISBN: 9798350912838
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Edward J. Larson
ISBN: 9780812968491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Franois De Gandt
ISBN: 9780691631981
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Franois De Gandt
ISBN: 9780691602516
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this book Francois De Gandt introduces us to the reading of Newton's Principia in its own terms. The path of access that De Gandt proposes leads through the study of the geometrization of force. The result is a highly original meditation on the sources and meaning of Newton's magnum opus. In Chapter I De Gandt presents a translation of and deta
(Hardback)
By: Michael Friedman
ISBN: 9780691638553
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Friedman
ISBN: 9780691610429
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of philosophical, mathematical, and physical ideas that is the source of the theory's enduring philosophical interest. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again m
