Sonar to Quartz Clock examines how the unapplied phenomenon of piezoelectricity became applied for technologies such as sonar, crystal frequency control, the quartz clock, and how its research has...
Depuis quelques années, ma recherche s'est concentrée sur les trous blancs, les petits frères des trous noirs que nous voyons par centaines dans le ciel. Je vais parler de ce qui se passe sur le...
This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. It offers a...
This multidisciplinary work celebrates Wayne Orchiston's career and accomplishments in historical and cultural astronomy on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Over thirty of the world?s leading...
What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians? ?physiognomy?? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history...
Giftmorde zeichnen sich durch die praktische Unsichtbarkeit der Tatwaffe und damit durch eine besondere Heimlichkeit aus. Anders als bei vielen anderen Morden ist so nicht nur die Täterschaft...
Cet ouvrage est dédié à l'évolution des moyens d’étude et aux outils d’analyse utilisés dans les sciences physiques de l'antiquité à nos jours.. Structuré autour de 5 chapitres il présente :. la...
This book illuminates a few highly significant events in history in which astronomers have helped keep contacts between astronomers of different states in moments of international political...
Every year, hundreds of millions of animals are used in the service of biomedical research, despite the risk of extreme cruelty to these animal subjects. The expansion of the pharmaceutical...
Learn to document the technology that makes the world goTechnical Writing For Dummies is a master class on how to build a career writing user manuals, e-learning, streaming, simulations, and more...
Niels Bohr?s atomic theory of 1913 is one of the absolute highlights in the history of modern science. It was only with this work that physicists realized that quantum theory is an essential...
Throughout history, women have overcome tremendous odds to make lasting contributions to science. In Meeting the Challenge, BMagdolna Hargittai shares their stories. /B For centuries, women...
Difficile d?imaginer les mathématiques sans lui, et pourtant le zéro a brillé par son absence pendant des milliers d?années. On le pensait absurde, voire dangereux.. Point de départ, présence...
Notre passé est riche de femmes scientifiques, et pourtant elles sont le plus souvent absentes des livres d'histoire. Ce petit dictionnaire illustré a pour ambition de combler ce manque en...
This book enables readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the development and adoption of augmentation...
This book enables readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the development and adoption of augmentation...
In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds. In anticipation of this upcoming event, this...
This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography?a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us...
This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics. It shows how...