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EUGENICS AND THE NATURE NURTURE DEBATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENT by Aaron Gillette
$63.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any ...Show more
ISAAC NEWTON ON MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY by GUICCIARDINI
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Category: Education | Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
Historians of mathematics have devoted considerable attention to Isaac Newton's work on algebra, series, fluxions, quadratures, and geometry. In Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method, Niccol? Guicciardini examines a critical aspect of Newton's work that has not been tightly connected to Newt ...Show more
LISE MEITNER A LIFE IN PHYSICS by Ruth Lewin Sime
$74.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: California Studies in the History of Science Ser.
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics c ...Show more
NEITHER PHYSICS NOR CHEMISTRY A HISTORY OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY by Ana Simões; Kostas Gavroglu; Jed Z. Buchwald
$115.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Transformations : Studies in the History of Science and Technology
The evolution of a discipline at the intersection of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Quantum chemistry--a discipline that is not quite physics, not quite chemistry, and not quite applied mathematics--emerged as a field of study in the 1920s. It was referred to by such terms as mathematical chemistr ...Show more
PURSUING POWER AND LIGHT TECHNOLOGY AND PHYSICS FROM JAMES W by Bruce J. Hunt
$54.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science
In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics--the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field--were deeply rooted in the new technologies of the steam engine, the telegraph, and electric powe ...Show more
The Science Of Natural Disasters by Alex Woolf
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: The Science Of...
This fascinating guide to natural disasters combines fact-packed, easy-to-read text with colourful and quirky illustrations. From earthquakes to volcanoes, it is an eye-opening introduction to the devastating and often terrifying power of the natural world. Each spread has multiple entry points, includi ...Show more
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