| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Vernon series on history of science |
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Vernon series on history of science.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. An introduction to Ancient Greek science -- Plato and Aristotle upon truth and ethics -- Scientific topics in antiquity: measurement, experiment, and construction -- Mathematical astronomy -- Rhetorical and political sites -- Alexandrian Renaissance -- chapter2. Earlier than western science : knowledge in transcultural historical settings -- Reports on Chinese science -- Exchanges and diaspora -- The Islamic transfers of the traditional science -- The transition to the modern era -- chapter3. The age of the oceanic discoveries -- Sea passages -- Ships and shipbuilding -- Colonialist competition and utilitarianism -- Scientific discoveries, telescopes, clocks and longitude -- The rise of the Atlantic world -- chapter4. Material science and culture -- Mining engineering and mineralogy in Ealy Modern Europe -- Studies of magnetism -- Magnetism and electricity -- chapter5. The petroleum pioneers in the age of illumination -- Research on petroleum -- Oil in Arabia -- The international petroleum sector at the end of the twentieth century -- Energy science and technology issues -- chapter6. Computer generations -- Charles Babbage and the development of computational industry -- The emergence of the computer industry -- Algorithms and their power -- Innovation in the age of technoscience -- Work, technology, and Human-Machine Interaction -- The Human-Machine Interaction in future smart societies -- chapter 7. Scientific conceptions of the universe -- Space and time as relations -- chapter 8. Philosophy and history of science -- Continuities, ruptures, and transitions. |
| Subject |
Science -- History.
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781622732005 1622732006 (OCoLC)982491927 |
| ISBN |
9781622733040 (electronic bk.) |
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1622733045 (electronic bk.) |
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