Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 248 p. This thought-provoking and original collection looks at how intellectuals and their disciplines have been shaped, halted and advanced by the rise and fall of empires. It illuminates how ideas did not just reflect but also moulded global order and disorder by informing public policies and discourse. Ranging from early modern European empires...
Penguin Books, 2012. — 336 p. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not...
Penguin Adult, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN 9780141957685, 0141957689. The Nature of Technology will change the way you think about this fundamental subject forever. W. Brian Arthur's many years of thinking and writing about technology have culminated in a unique understanding of his subject. Here he examines the nature of technology itself: what is it and how does it evolve? Giving...
Springer, 2021. — 830 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-71392-8. Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 259 p. In late 1864, after a decade of occasional collaboration, six ambitious professionals and three wealthy amateurs formed themselves into a private dining club which became known as the X Club. The members of this club were young, talented, ambitious, and frustrated at the difficulty of obtaining salaried positions in science. They were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 270 p. - Offers a systemic exploration of the relationship between Western and Eastern social scientists during the Cold War - Challenges the narrative of the non-cooperative nature of scientific work during the Cold War - Includes case studies from an array of Eastern European countries This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the...
Riverhead Books, 2018. — 273 p. — ISBN 9780399576423, 0399576436. The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and...
NY: National Geographic, 2009. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-1-426-20420-3. Sometime about 30,000 years ago, somebody stuck a sharp rock into a split stick—and presto! The axe was born. Our inquisitive species just loves tinkering, testing, and pushing the limits, and this delightfully different book is a freewheeling reference to hundreds of customs, notions, and inventions that...
Sterling, 2015. — 528 p. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN 9781454908098, 1454908092. Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems—and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the catapult to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU,...
Routledge, 2023. — 259 p. This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the...
Pen and Sword Transport, 2019. — 288 p. Over the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability to make and do things creatively to ensure their survival. From the beginning, therefore, they have been defined by their technology, and the history of technology is the history of the species. For most...
Columbia University Press, 2016. — 272 p. — (Columbia Studies In International And Global History). — ISBN: 9780231540612. In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the...
Hachette Book Group, 2009. — 926 p. — ISBN: 978-0-316-09191-6. The Way We Are. In the Light of the Above. Point of View. Matter of Fact. Infinitely Reasonable. Credit Where It's Due. What the Doctor Ordered. Fit to Rule. Making Waves. Worlds Without End.
Ecco , 2018 — 368 p. — ISBN 978-0062661128, 0062661124 An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own automobiles and instead will get...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 174 p. Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 174 p. Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War. Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern...
Captivating History, 2020. — 246 p. — ISBN 9781647488796, 1647488796. Enlightenment philosophy then intensified the Industrial Revolution by changing the British political system and guiding its deliberations. It was responsible, at least in part, for bringing mercantilism to an end and replacing it with a more open and competitive economic system. If you want to discover the...
Routledge, 2017. — 344 p. This title was first published in 2003. Donald Cardwell's interest in the inter-relationships between science, technology, education and society are exemplified in the selection of his studies and essays brought together here. The first section deals with the rise of scientific education in Britain, comparing it with that on the Continent. The next...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 332 p. Charles Darwin - alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein - ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his...
Basement Press, 2019. — 225 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78929-177-3. Since ancient times, we have tried tomake sense of our universe by observing objects far beyond our abilities to see or touch - from the smallest atom to the farthest star. This book covers, in chronological order, all the key discoveries and remarkable minds in each scientific field, including Aristotle's geocentric...
Charles River Editors Press, 2019. — 62 p. In virtually all fields of human endeavor, ancient Athens was so much at the forefront of dynamism and innovation that the products of its most brilliant minds remain not only influential but entirely relevant to this day. In the field of medicine, the great physician Hippocrates not only advanced the practical knowledge of human...
Ivy Press, 2019. — 272 p. — (Liber Historica). — ISBN 9781782408789, 1782408789. Scientifica Historica is an illustrated, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from ancient civilizations to the new millennium. The book is divided into five eras and explores the leading scientific pioneers, discoveries and books within them: Ancient World –...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-1250057853, 125005785X. An exciting book about real-life technology derived from science fiction and its impact on the world. Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008. — 256 p. "Generation" is the story of the exciting, largely forgotten decade during the seventeenth century when a group of young scientists-Jan Swammerdam, the son of a Protestant apothecary, Nils Stensen (also known as Steno), a Danish anatomist who first discovered the human tear duct, Reinier de Graaf, the attractive and brilliant son of a rich...
2nd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2021. — 545 p. — ISBN 9780197545508. Whether you are planning a road trip or looking to engage with history from the comfort of your couch, the second edition of America's Scientific Treasures is sure to satisfy your craving for scientific and technologic history. Stephen M. Cohen and Brenda H. Cohen, a mother-son pair, take readers...
WH Allen, 2024. — 512 p. They built our world, and they will transform our future.These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted.In Material World, Ed Conway travels...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 260 p. This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 250 p. Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling...
Random House, 2004. — 551 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-43253-7. Introduction —The Moment of Transition One —Measuring the World: Eratosthenes' Measurement of the Earth's Circumference Interlude —Why Science is Beautiful Two — Dropping the Ball: The Legend of Leaning Tower Interlude —Experiments and Demonstration Three —The Alfa Experiment: Galileo and the Inclined Plane Interlude — The...
The Crowood Press Ltd., 2022. — ISBN 978-0-7198-4089-0. The watch has a long and fascinating history, from a fifteenth-century status symbol of the rich and powerful to the mass-produced everyday timepiece of modern times. This book describes the main technical developments across a 500-year timespan, from the beginnings in Germany and France, through the golden age of English...
Arcturus Holdings Limited, 2022. — 383 p. — ISBN 978-1789502343, 1789502349. To be human is to wonder. There is very little that science does not seek to explore and define. The impulse to ask questions is hardwired into our DNA, and for three hundred millennia people have been searching for answers. In An Illustrated History of Science, Mary Cruse takes readers on a...
Apollo, 2022. — 282 p. — ISBN 9781838937874, 1838937870. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 288 p. This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped with the rise of ever narrower scientific disciplines For millennia, the field of natural history promoted a knowledgeable and unifying view of the world. In contrast, the modern rise of narrow scientific disciplines has...
Apress Media LLC, 2023. — 278 р. — ISBN-13: 979-8-8688-1249-1. Philosopher Noam Chomsky is famously quoted as saying that technology is neither good nor bad, but simply a neutral tool. He likens it to a hammer, which can be used by carpenters and torturers alike. While the neutrality of tech is an idea that appeals to many technologists, this perspective is out of alignment...
Scribner Book Company, 2020. — 336 p. A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem - including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires - in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari's Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky's Salt . As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came...
Hill Ltd., Ray Essen, 2020. — 280 p. — ISBN 979-8564778909. Revolutions in Time explores the world of precision timekeeping from its secret military origins to its emergence as a multi-billion-dollar industry. The story focuses on a government scientist, Louis Essen, and his quest to build the most accurate clocks in the world. Essen's ground-breaking work led to a revolution...
Back Bay Books, 2006 — 692 p. — ISBN 0316013854,9780316013857 An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century. Now available in a text-only paperback edition, "They Made America" is a stirring and supremely readable work of history - a celebration of the entrepreneurial...
State University of New York Press, 1981. — 267 p. Lynn, Massachusetts, once the leading shoe manufacturing city of the United States, was in many ways a model of the industrial city that much of America was to become. This study of the early industrial revolution in Lynn focuses on the journeymen shoemakers—leading participants in the making of the institutions, ideas, and...
Springer, 2022. — 244 p. This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences - spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020. — 416 p. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the...
Pimlico, 2004. — 288 p. 'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they...
Harper Collins e-books, 2009. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0061358436. A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disasters Every phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol—absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good...
Arcade Publishing, 2011. — 264 p. As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends—all titans of contemporary science and philosophy—to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best—science and philosophy. His guests were the legendary...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 304 p. - Offers a stimulating account of Galileo's original trial and the subsequent and continuing controversy surrounding it - Considers the arguments for both sides employed by both Galileo and the Church for and against the earth's motion, and their philosophical and scientific foundations - Discusses the historical, intellectual, and...
Overlook Press, 2014. — 352 p. Histories of modern science often begin with the heroic battle between Galileo and the Catholic Church, which ignited the Scientific Revolution and gave way to the world-changing discoveries of Isaac Newton. Virtually nothing is said about the European scholars who came before. In reality, more than a millennium before the Renaissance, a...
I.B. Tauris, 2011. — 256 p. Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge, invention and creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began with the translation of Greek manuscripts into Arabic in eighth-century Baghdad, preserved...
Columbia University Press. 2019. — 496 p. The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education - providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call "the continuing education of the educated". By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to go to...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2004. — 400 p. More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre. A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity. In...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 336 p. One afternoon in late April 1859 two geologically minded businessmen, John Evans and Joseph Prestwich, found and photographed the proof for great human antiquity. Their evidence -- small, hand-held stone tools found in the gravel quarries of the Somme among the bones of ancient animals -- shattered the timescale of Genesis and kicked open...
Canongate Books, 2016. — 368 p. — ISBN 9781782113201, 1782113207. Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary? The compelling stories in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 200 p. Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and linguistic relevance of technical automation to natural automatism, demonstrates how ancient...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 432 p. The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies. From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs — officially, the research and development wing of AT&T — was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in...
Harper Perennial, 1995. — 356 p. Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the...
New York: PublicAffairs, 2023. — 368 p. — ISBN 978-1541702271, 1541702271. A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold—if we act now. From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day, water has always been central to existence on Earth. And since long before the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 304 p. There is ample evidence that it is difficult for the general public to understand and internalize scientific facts. Disputes over such facts are often amplified amid political controversies. As we've seen with climate change and even COVID-19, politicians rely on the perceptions of their constituents when making decisions that impact...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 264 p. Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative antecedent efforts of three great civilizations: Greek, Islamic, and Latin. With the...
Penguin Books, 2002. — 647 p. — ISBN 978-0-14-104222-0. The year 1543 is a watershed in the history of science. It was then that science as we understand it today was born. Until then, rhetoric, superstition, and fanciful speculation about the natural world ruled. In 1543 Copernicus published his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, in which he stated that the earth moved...
Icon Books, 2009. — 481 p.
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam...
Regnery Publishing, 2011. — 448 p. This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In God's Philosophers, James...
OUP Premium, 2015. — 416 p. This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways,...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 161 p. — (New Oxford World History). — ISBN 978-0195156485, 0195338219. The history of humans and technology is a long one, going back millions of years to the use of stones as tools and to their fashioning into more efficient devices through skillful flaking. Ancient peoples discovered the use of fire as a survival technology, only much later...
Chronicle Books, 2021. — 104 p. — ISBN 978-1-4521-7306-1. Vehicles include an underwater battery-powered scooter, a carriage pulled by ostriches, a hot air balloon shaped like the Cathedral of Saint Gall, and five different jet packs. Filled with history, science, technology, engineering, and interesting bits of trivia, all in one kid-appealing package Part of the Uncommon...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 340 p. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria) have been a source of fascination for more than two thousand years. Even though six of the Wonders are now gone, historians and...
Hourly History, 2016 — 46 p. — ISBN 9781540742810 Age of Enlightenment from its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the «Age of Enlightenment» is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 288 p. A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain. In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 280 p. This is the story of John Draper, Andrew White, and the conflict thesis: a centuries-old misconception that religion and science are at odds with one another. Renowned scientist John William Draper (1811-1882) and celebrated historian-politician Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) were certain that Enlightened Science and Dogmatic...
Ten Speed Press, 2016. — 128 р. — ISBN: 978-1607749769. A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking, singular art, this fascinating collection also...
John Wiley & Sons, 2016. — 1116 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1118372975. A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh...
University of California Press, 2021. — 390 p. The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage they set for American democracy. When it comes to breaking down barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name speaks volumes for itself―but, as she clarifies in the foreword to this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do not...
Penn State University Press, 2018. — 184 p. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire , Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 182 p. This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news is that in many...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 1064 p. With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus...
The MIT Press, 2020. — 595 p. — ISBN13: 9780262539296 The systematic organization of research and expertise promoting technological innovation is characteristic of modern industrial societies. “Knowledge is power,” a slogan of the early modern British statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon, is currently on the tip of everyone’s tongue. But when exactly did Western societies...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 344 p. An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of Cook. In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed - Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the...
Springer Praxis Books, 2020. — 235 p. — ISBN: 3030517438 This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines the personal lives of six of the intellectual giants involved. It explores the profound revolution in the way of thinking, and in particular the successful...
World Scientific Publishing, 2021. — 413 p. — ISBN 9781786349842. Consisting of separate cases organized by chapter and divided into independent sections, this is no ordinary history of science book. Between the Earth and the Heavens is an episodic history of modern physical sciences covering the chronological development of physics, chemistry and astronomy since about 1860....
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 352 p. In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share social knowledge—and thus possess culture? The subsequent debate has rocked the scientific world,...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 252 p. This work spans prehistory to 1500 CE, examining thousands of years of history in four world regions: Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Highlights of this period include the onset of civilization and science in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks between 700 BCE and 100 CE, the adaptation of Greek science by the...
The MIT Press, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0262036487, ISBN13: 978-0262036481. How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership. With the explosion of interest, hype, and fear about artificial intelligence, data science, and robotics, it is essential that we better understand how it is that technology and society evolve. Without such understanding, we are...
University Of Chicago Press, 2008. — 480 p. — ISBN 9780226482057, 0226482057. This landmark book represents the first attempt in two decades to survey the science of the ancient world, the first attempt in four decades to write a comprehensive history of medieval science, and the first attempt ever to present a full, unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 699 p. — ISBN: 0521594480. This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals,...
Little & Brown, 2004. — 554 p. The conquest of the air at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, was one of the supreme achievements of the 20th century. On that day, two unknown bicycle mechanics, Wilbur and Orville Wright, launched the first successful powered airplane. They changed the world forever. In The Wright Brothers , Ian Mackersey gives us an intriguing...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 592 p. Electronic computers are arguably the greatest invention of the 20th century. They are the enablers for many of the technologies that the developed world now relies upon and their impact on society cannot be overestimated. The story of their creation is a fascinating one which encompasses many of the great advances in...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2010. — 208 p. Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882—the day of Darwin's funeral—Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these...
The 40 anniversary ed. — Simon & Schuster, 2012. — 609 p. — ISBN 9781451683233, 1451683235.. The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — ISBN 978–0–19–885195–0. Художники и ученые смотрят на мир совершенно по-разному. Тем не менее, их объединяет поиск скрытого порядка под внешней видимостью. Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest for eternal geometrical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 398 p. This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollion’s success in understanding hieroglyphs, first published in his Lettre à M. Dacier in 1822, is emblematic for the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 336 S. — (Materiale Textkulturen 7). Die Zeit vom 11. bis 15. Jahrhundert wird in der Forschung als lang gestreckter Siegeszug des Papiers in Europa beschrieben. Als Konsens gilt, dass der neue Beschreibstoff angesichts seiner Preisvorteile und der Verfügbarkeit seiner Rohstoffe nicht nur das zuvor dominierende Pergament verdrängte, sondern auch die...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. — 472 p. — ISBN: 0822944650, 978-0822944652. The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris—a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin—highlighted...
Springer, 2020. — 574 p. This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors. It compares these to mathematical texts produced in related school contexts...
New York: Doubleday, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0-385541-76-7. “The Map of Knowledge is an endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.” — Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. After the Fall of Rome, when many of the great ideas of the ancient world were lost to the ravages of the...
3rd Edition. — Montland Books, 2020. — 496 p. — ISBN 978-0-9959174-9-1. This book has helped high school and college students to understand the science of physics, but it also helped intelligent adults to understand what scientists do and how science works. It describes the evolution of the science of Physics from the human perspective: biographical sketches, stories of...
Routledge, 2019. — 216 p. In 1759 the botanist and scientist Vitaliano Donati led an expedition to Egypt under the patronage of King Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia, to acquire Egyptian antiquities for the Museum in Turin. Charting his tumultuous expedition, this book reveals how, in spite of his untimely death in 1762, Donati managed to send enough items back to Turin to lay...
PublicAffairs, 2012. — 384 p. — ISBN 9781586488284, 1610390490.. In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the earth. But as Charles R. Morris shows us, the platform...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 1040 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–288401–5. The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first-ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond.The first part of the book tells the story of science in both the East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to...
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul LTD, 1955. — 495 p. Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 — before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the...
Springer, 2020. — 243 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-55168-1. Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories. Collected here are twenty-six among the most enchanting tales, one for each letter of the alphabet: the main characters are scientists of the highest caliber most of whom, however, are unknown to the general public....
NY: National Geographic, 2015 — 809 p. — ISBN: 978-1-426-21584-1. Foreword by Henry Petroski. This vivid, engrossing book reveals the fascinating stories behind the objects in your world, what you wear, what you eat, what entertains you, and more. Discover the history behind the world's tallest skyscrapers, find out when people first started drinking caffeine and why it wakes...
Prometheus Books, 2018. — 314 p. — ISBN 9781633884663, 163388466X. Tells the story of a laser technology that will have a big impact on society and the brilliant innovators responsible for its development. Lidar–a technology evolved from radar, but using laser light rather than microwaves – has found an astounding range of applications, none more prominent than its crucial role...
Ben Bella Books, 2022. — 336 p. — ISBN 9781953295606, 1953295606. From the movements of the spheres to the slipperiness of relativity, the story of science unfolds through the fascinating history of humanity’s efforts to keep time. Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure...
Lyons Press, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-1493038435, 1493038435, On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios. NASA's successful moon landing left the nation in awe. This moment inspired inventors and engineers across the nation. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, we share with you 20 patents that were inspired by the...
NY: W.W.Norton & Company, 2014. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-24204-1, 0393242048. An architectural whodunit that unlocks the secrets of a hand-built home. When Henry Petroski and his wife Catherine bought a charming but modest six-decades-old island retreat in coastal Maine, Petroski couldn’t help but admire its unusual construction. An eminent expert on engineering, history, and...
NY: Vintage Books, 1996. — 627 p. — ISBN: 978-0679760214,0679760210. Petroski reveals the science and engineering-not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic-behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St....
NY: Vintage, 2005. — 262 p. — ISBN: 978-1-400-03294-5, 1400032946. Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings-and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its...
NY: Vintage, 1998. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-77320-3, 0375700242. From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut...
NY: Vintage, 2004. — 279 p. — ISBN: 978-1400032938, 1400032938. Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books,...
NY: Princeton University Press, 2006. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-0691122250, 0691122253. Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry...
NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. — 306 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-77328-9. Henry Petroski, "the poet laureate of technology" and author of the highly acclaimed The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things now sets his sights on perhaps the greatest technological advances of the last two thousand years: the making and storing of books—from papyrus scrolls to precious...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN 978-0307593207, 0307593207. From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural...
NY: Vintage, 1994. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-0679740391, 0679740392. How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine? What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch? In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but...
NY: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. — 522 p. — ISBN: 978-0-307-77243-5. Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as...
NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. — 322 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63286-360-7. Renowned historian and engineer Henry Petroski explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. In The Road Taken , acclaimed historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from historical and contemporary perspectives and explains how essential their maintenance is to...
Sterling, 2019. — 528 р. — (Sterling Milestones). — ISBN 978-1454933007, 1454933003. From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. Award-winning author Cliff Pickover (The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important...
Mariner Books, 2022. — 464 p. The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught. When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. But the...
Basic Books, 2020. — 320 p. — ISBN 9781541617612, 1541617614. From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, a global history of textiles and the world they made. The story of humanity is the story of textiles — as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization ,...
Walker Books, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0802716378, eISBN 978-0802718877. Witty, incisive observations on such universally meaningful topics as courage and compassion by many of the greatest minds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been the hallmark of genius, but Nobel laureates tend to be more than merely brilliant―their idealism,...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific Revolution." New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to...
Clever Gizmos LLC, 2020. — 383 p. — ISBN 978-1733328760, 1733328769. Would you like to know what your life will be like in the next decade? Are you curious to learn about how you'll be getting around town, where you'll be working, and what the future has in store for your family? At the 2017 World Government Summit, Tesla founder Elon Musk proclaimed: «In 10 years it will be...
Simon & Schuster, 2016. — 320 p. The Industries of the Future” is an informative and accessible book about the next economy and how this next wave of innovation will affect our societies. Leading expert on innovation and former Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Alec Ross, explores the industries that will drive the next 20 years of change....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 310 p. This book is the first study in English of the multi-volume set of texts and engravings of the Description of Egypt , a work produced following the three-year-long Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The book challenges the conventional and rather reductive interpretation of the Description that followed Edward Said's...
Crown Business, 2017. — 199 p. — ISBN 9781524758868, 1524758868. World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005. — 362 p. — (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact). — ISBN 9780195168747, 0195168747. The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2017. — 568 p. — ISBN: 9780262035774, 0262035774. Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass....
Viking, 2022. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-0593297063, 0593297067. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment...
The MIT Press, 2022. — 232 p. — ISBN 9780262048057, 0262048051. The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation , the prolific author - a favorite of Bill Gates - pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies...
MIT Press Ltd, 2013. — 256 p — ISBN 978-0-262-01938-5,0262019388,978-0-262-31675-0. In Made in the USA , Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong,...
2d ed. — Wiley, 2023. — 320 p. — ISBN 9781394181209, 1394181205. World-renowned scientist Vaclav Smil examines a critical topic in the research and policy domain of sustainable resource use. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of...
William Morrow, 2023. — 304 p. — ISBN 9780063324091, 0063324091. From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our size , whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness. «No one writes about the great issues of our time with...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. — 368 p. — (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact). — ISBN 9780195168754, 0195168755. This inquiry into the technical advances that shaped the 20th century follows the evolutions of all the principal innovations introduced before 1913 (as detailed in the first volume) as well as the origins and elaborations of all fundamental 20th...
John Murray, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN 9781473659032, 1473659035. A briskly told, 30,000-year history of textiles that “will make you rethink your relationship with fabric” (Elle Decoration). From colorful threads found on the floor of an ancient Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes that fueled the Industrial Revolution, The Golden Thread illuminates the myriad and fascinating...
Cornell University Press, 2010. — 256 p. — ISBN 978-0-8014-4864-5, 0801448646, 9780801462344,0801462347. In The Unfinished Enlightenment , Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories,...
Cosimo Classics, 2008. — 672 p. This is the complete edition, Volumes I and II in one single book. This edition also is fully illustrated and contains an introduction about how this book really was written. In his “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,” the author intimated his intention to make a more thorough exploration of the ruins of the latter...
Basic Books, 2012. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0465029736, ISBN13: 978-0465029730. In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress. We often overlook the historical link between mathematics and technological advances, says Stewart—but this connection...
Liveright, 2020. — 368 p. A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. • Why is science so powerful? • Why did it take so long—two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics—for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe? In a groundbreaking work...
Hachette, 2023. — 602 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-304870-6 Timepieces have long accompanied us on our travels, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, the ice of the arctic to the sands of the deserts, outer space to the surface of the moon. The watch has sculpted the social and economic development of modern society; it is an object that, when disassembled, can give us...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 590 p. The Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China provides the most up-to-date information on science and technology in China from the late nineteenth century to the present. Special attention is given to the historical factors, scientists, and historical figures behind each scientific development. In...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 176 p. Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom concerning nature - sought to explain the order and composition of the world, and how we come to know it. They were...
Goose Lane Editions, 2001. — 95 p. Great Maritime Inventions 1833-1950 is a delightful look at how innovative Maritime ideas changed the world. Between 1833 and 1950, over 3,300 patents were granted to residents of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI. From the scuba tank to the variable pitch propeller to two-piece long underwear, Great Maritime Inventions profiles the best of...
Basic Books, 2019. — 240 p. An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published the world's first science journal, and has counted scientific...
Faber & Faber, 2003. — 588 p. Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world....
Arcturus Digital Limited, 2021 — 208 p. — ISBN 9781839406706 In this stunning jacketed hardback, science writer Paul Virr introduces 50 of the world's most influential engineers of all time and a selection of their groundbreaking inventions, showcased with full-colour photography. Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon...
Simon Schuster, 2017. — 576 p. — ISBN 9781476754369,1476754365. A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argument — that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths. Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different...
Harper Perennial, 2014. — 864 p. — ISBN 978-0062039125, 0062039121. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and...
Henry Holt And Co., 2019 — 198 p.— ISBN 9781250120168 The spellbinding true account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity. In the mid-to-late-nineteenth century, a burgeoning science called electricity promised to shine new light on a rousing nation. Inventive and ambitious minds were hard at work. Soon that spark was fanned, and a fiery war was...
Bloomsbury Sigma, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN 9781472913210. Science is secretly at work behind the scenes of major cities of the world and will continue to be so. Technological advances in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, electronics, and nanotechnology are proving increasingly important to city life, and the urban world will turn to science to deliver solutions to the...
Routledge, 2024. — 357 p. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities), edited by by Arnaud Zucker, Robert Mayhew and Oliver Hellmann, is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature...
Routledge, 2020. — 362 p. Studies on Ottoman Science and Culture brings together eleven articles by distinguished historian Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. The book addresses multiple issues related to the histories of science and culture during the Ottoman era. Most of the articles contained in this volume were the first contributions to their respective topics, and they continue to...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2014. — 619 с. — (История науки). — ISBN 9785444801284, 5444801280. Книга представляет собой сборник переводов избранных статей по истории американской науки и охватывает разные аспекты организации науки и научного образования в США. Статьи сгруппированы по четырем темам: проблема становления американской системы подготовки научных кадров;...
Пер. с англ. Л.А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2014. — 352 с. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5139-1. Известный историк науки из университета Индианы Мари Боас Холл в своем исследовании дает общий обзор научной мысли с середины XV до середины XVII века. Этот период — особенная стадия в истории науки, время кардинальных и удивительно последовательных перемен. Речь в книге пойдет об...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2019. — 488 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5383-8. Т. Дерри и Т. Уильямс представили блистательный рассказ о технологических достижениях человечества с древности до наших дней, уделив пристальное внимание влиянию технического прогресса на ход истории. Первая часть повествования включает историю технологий с древних времен до 1750 года. Рассказ начинается с общего...
Пер. Алексей Кащеев. — Москва: Livebook/Гаятри, 2018. — 460 с., 216 ил. — ISBN: 978-5-907056-19-0. Удивительно, но в эпоху неслыханного технического прогресса, развития медицины и популяризации науки до сих пор есть люди, которые сознательно отказываются от прививок, верят в гомеопатию, пытаются лечиться отварами трав (это в лучшем случае). На них успешно наживаются популярные...
Перевод искусственным интеллектом сообщества "Книжный импорт". — Без выходных данных. «Фей-Фей Ли - один из ученых, ответственных за рождение самой обсуждаемой сегодня науки, искусственного интеллекта. В книге она дает лучшее объяснение ИИ, которое я когда-либо читала, и одновременно рассказывает о своем собственном американском пути молодой иммигрантки, которая нашла себя...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2022. — 750 c. — ISBN 978-5-9524-5737-9. Один из лучших в мире специалистов по истории науки Джордж Сартон увлекательно и ярко рисует картину развития математики, астрономии, физики, биологии, медицины, по мере того как они возникали в доисторической эпохе и расцветали в древнегреческом обществе. Первая часть книги посвящена ранним свидетельствам...
М.: Evidentis, 2002. — 448 с. Первая часть книги "Становление европейской науки" посвящена истории общеевропейской культуры, причем в моментах, казалось бы, наиболее отдаленных от непосредственного феномена самой науки. По мнению автора, "все злоключения науки начались с того, что ее отделили от искусства, вытравляя из нее все личностное…". Вторая часть исследования посвящена...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 144 с.: ил — (История науки и техники). Записки выдающегося русского путешественника Афанасия Никитина, пять столетий назад посетившего Индию, переведены на многие языки мира и издавна привлекают внимание писателей и ученых Автору, работавшему в Индии, удалось по-новому интерпретировать замечательный памятник древнерусской культуры. Сопоставляя русские...
Перевод: А. Снигиров. — М.: Индивидуум Принт, 2023. — 688 с. — ISBN 978-5-6048295-0-9. Визуальная картина состоит из бесконечного количества цветных точек. Бесконечность по определению слишком велика, чтобы иметь с ней дело. Но как мы можем заменить непрерывную визуальную картину конечным числом дискретных битов – пикселей – и не потерять при этом бесконечное количество...
Сегодня научно-технический прогресс сформировал взаимовлияние и неразрывную связь этих когда-то развивавшихся независимо (науки и техники) направлений. Информационные материалы по ним разбросаны по разным темам. Тег позволит легче ориентироваться в этом потоке информации. Список файлов /file/2082336/ - Aaboe A. Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy /file/2083205/ - Aaboe...
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