The brokered world : go-betweens and global intelligence, 1770-1820
Livre imprimé, 2009
This book offers detailed consideration of forms of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and politic...
Thomas Reid on logic, rhetoric, and the fine arts : papers on the culture of the mind
Livre imprimé - Reid Thomas, Broadie Alexander, cop. 2004
Thomas Reid saw the three subjects of logic, rhetoric, and the fine arts as closely cohering aspects of one endeavor that he called the culture of the mind. This was a ...
Évolution et histoire : les modèles du devenir
Livre imprimé - Jenny Alain, Mauroy Hervé, Institut du développement et de la prospective, DL 2014, cop. 2014
La liste des interventions du colloque reflète en bonne partie le contenu de l'ouvrage : Bernard Bourgeois, Alain jenny et Hervé Mauroy « Introductions générales de...
A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
Livre imprimé - Edwards Paul N., cop. 2010
Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation..... Edwards argues...
Wandering significance : an essay on conceptual behavior
Livre imprimé - Wilson Mark, cop. 2006
Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems c...
The world as a mathematical game : John von Neumann and twentieth century science
Livre imprimé - Israël Giorgio, Millán Gasca Ana, cop. 2009
Galileo and Newton showed that the physical world could be represented by means of mathematics. Leibniz dedicated himself to the project of constructing a universal log...