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  • Revolução Científica Simplificada

    Entender a Revolução Científica não é apenas um exercício acadêmico; é crucial para compreender as complexidades dos debates atuais em ciência, tecnologia e ética. Mesmo enquanto a pesquisa científica continua a ultrapassar fronteiras no século XXI, as questões levantadas durante a Revolução Científica sobre o papel da ciência, suas limitações e suas implicações éticas permanecem relevantes. Este ... Read more

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  • History and Speculative Fiction

    Edited by John L. Hennessey ...
    This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that ... Read more

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  • The Taming of Evolution

    The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans

    The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship ... Read more

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  • Before Einstein

    The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture

    Series Book 1 - Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
    ‘Before Einstein’ brings together previous scholarship in the field of nineteenth-century literature and science and greatly expands upon it, offering the first book-length study of not only the scientific and cultural context of the spatial fourth dimension, but also the literary value of four-dimensional theory. In addition to providing close critical analysis of Charles Howard Hinton’s ... Read more

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  • Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon

    Series Book 63 - Archimedes
    This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is aimed at ... Read more

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  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings

    When is Death?

    Edited by Shane McCorristine ...
    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we ... Read more

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  • Imre Lakatos: Euristica și toleranța metodologică

    Pentru a analiza conceptele de euristica și toleranță metodologică dezvoltate de Lakatos, m-am concentrat pe secțiunea ”Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes”, publicată pentru prima dată ca articol în 1970 și apoi în cartea The methodology of scientific research programmes, Volume I (Lakatos 1978). Am analizat, în acest text, exemplificarea autorului pentru programul ... Read more

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  • Data Journeys in the Sciences

    This groundbreaking, open access volume analyses and compares data practices across several fields through the analysis of specific cases of data journeys. It brings together leading scholars in the philosophy, history and social studies of science to achieve two goals: tracking the travel of data across different spaces, times and domains of research practice; and documenting how such journeys ... Read more

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  • Les paysages de l’électricité

    Perspectives historiques et enjeux contemporains (XIXe-XXIe siècles)

    Series Book 4 - Histoire de l’énergie/History of Energy
    Depuis son apparition à la fin du XIXe siècle sous la forme industrielle, la nouvelle énergie électrique s’est immiscée dans les paysages métropolitains, industriels ou ruraux. Mais cette immixtion, sous le signe de l’étrangeté de l’appareillage, du bâtiment, des configurations spatiales et des postures professionnelles, s’est progressivement, et parfois radicalement, transformée en genèse d’un ... Read more

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  • Filosofia, história e sociologia das ciências I

    abordagens contemporâneas

    Coletânea preciosa não somente para os especialistas, mas para todo aquele que pretende se iniciar na pesquisa e se interrogar sobre a natureza da ciência, seus desafios e seus problemas fundamentais. A obra reúne diversos especialistas do Brasil e da França na busca de contemplar as "diversas vertentes de pensamento que constituem a fundamentação do atual debate sobre as ciências", em artigos que ... Read more

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  • Dissecting the Criminal Corpse

    Staging Post-Execution Punishment in Early Modern England

    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
    Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crime ... Read more

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  • 'The Bell Curve' in Perspective

    Race, Meritocracy, Inequality and Politics

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
    This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve and its place in the campaign to end affirmative action, Professor Tucker analyses Herrnstein’s concept of the “meritocracy” in relation to earlier 20th century eugenics and the dramatic increase in ... Read more

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  • Controversa dintre Isaac Newton și Robert Hooke despre prioritatea în legea gravitației

    Una din cele mai disputate controverse privind prioritatea unor descoperiri științifice este cea privind legea gravitației universale, între Isaac Newton și Robert Hooke. În acest eseu extind o lucrare mai veche pe aceeași temă, ”Isaac Newton vs. Robert Hooke în legea gravitației universale”. Hooke l-a acuzat pe Newton de plagiat, preluându-i ideile exprimate în lucrările anterioare. În această ... Read more

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  • PEDECIBA: Los orígenes de una revolución científica y cultural en el Uruguay posdictadura (1985-1990)

    by Victor Ganon ...
    La ciencia ha cobrado en el país un protagonismo inusitado y el PEDECIBA es un actor central en este desenlace.En 1985 Uruguay retornaba a la democracia y con ella asomaba un sinfín de oportunidades y desafíos a todo nivel. En referencia a las ciencias se intuyó la necesidad de crear un programa de ciencias básicas, con Adela Reta como ministra de Educación y Cultura y Víctor Ganón como ... Read more

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  • Bearing Witness

    Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
    This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside anew way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirchhelle ... Read more

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  • Bruno Touschek 100 Years

    Memorial Symposium 2021

    Series Book 287 - Springer Proceedings in Physics
    This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, among them, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Giorgio Parisi and Carlo Rubbia. It reviews the main developments in theoretical and accelerator physics in the second half of the ... Read more

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  • Reconnecting to Reality

    by Jerry Pitney ...
    A science layperson's guide to examining the nature of reality by performing a series of easy and simple tests and experiments. This book also focuses on how ancient man first devised some simple tools and basic inventions from materials found readily in nature, which would, in turn, evolve over the eons into the technologies of today. It encourages the reader to actively participate in the ... Read more

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  • Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues

    How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health

    Series series New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
    Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues—anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio—were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, ... Read more

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  • Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine

    One Health and its Histories

    Series series Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological.Each chapter analyses ... Read more

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  • Understanding Perspectivism

    Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an array of essays that reflect on the methodological promises and scientific challenges of perspectivism in a variety of fields such as physics, biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cancer research, just as a few examples. What are the advantages of using a ... Read more

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  • Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834

    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them to several ... Read more

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  • A History of Force Feeding

    Hunger Strikes, Prisons and Medical Ethics, 1909–1974

    by Ian Miller ...
    This book is Open Access under a CC BY license.It is the first monograph-length study of the force-feeding of hunger strikers in English, Irish and Northern Irish prisons. It examines ethical debates that arose throughout the twentieth century when governments authorised the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes, Irish republicans and convict prisoners. It also explores the fraught role of ... Read more

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  • Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

    Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies

    Edited by Ulrike Steinert ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century.Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from ... Read more

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  • Deep Cut

    Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal

    Series series Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser.
    CHRISTINE KEINER is a professor of science, technology, and society at Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880 (Georgia). ... Read more

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