History of shock waves, explosions and impact : a chronological and biographical reference
Livre imprimé - Krehl Peter O. K., 2007
This unique and encyclopedic reference work charts the evolution of the physics of shock waves and detonations from the earliest investigations into percussion and impa...
An epistemology of the concrete : twentieth-century histories of life
Livre imprimé - Rheinberger Hans-Jörg, Lenoir Timothy, 2010
An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, ...
Scientific models in philosophy of science
Livre imprimé - Bailer-Jones Daniela, cop. 2009
Analyse philosophique et historique de modèles scientifiques., ... an original and comprehensive philosophical analysis of how models have been used and interpreted in ...
Summa Technologiae
Livre imprimé - Lem Stanislas, 2014
In Summa Technologiae— his major work of nonfiction, first published in 1964 and now available in English for the first time— [Site de l'éditeur] Lem produced an engagi...
Invented Edens : techno-cities of the twentieth century
Livre imprimé - Kargon Robert Hugh, Molella Arthur P., cop. 2008
Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries...
Creating scientific concepts
Livre imprimé - Nersessian Nancy J., cop. 2008
How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of ...