Dugas R. The history of mechanics

Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 688 pp. This book in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of the life and earth sciences since 1800. It provides comprehensive and authoritative surveys of historical thinking on major developments in these areas of science, on the social and cultural milieus in which the knowledge was generated, and on the wider impact of the major theoretical and practical innova...

Springer, 2012 - 458 p. New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders. ISBN10: 9400726260 ISBN13: 9789400726260 (eng)

Springer, 2008. - 517 pp. Fluid Mechanics, as a scientific discipline in a modern sense, was established between the last third of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th one. This book analyses its genesis, following its evolution along two basic lines of research, which have been named the "problem of resistance" and the "problem of discharge". This approach highlights the existence of a remarkable experimental aspect in the aforementio...

Pluto Press, 2001 - 216 p. This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the twentieth century.The bulk of the book is devoted to themes and controversies characteristic of post First World War anthro...

World Scientific, 2001. - 658 pp. "The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics" contains 34 essays on the history of quantum and relativity theories and their applications. Most of the essays were presented as lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA by Jagdish Mehra, while some were published individually and in collaboration with Helmut Rechenberg. This book deals with the most important themes developed in the first 40 years of the 20t...

World Scientific, 2001. - 778 pp. "The Golden Age of Theoretical Physics" contains 34 essays on the history of quantum and relativity theories and their applications. Most of the essays were presented as lectures at various universities in Europe and the USA by Jagdish Mehra, while some were published individually and in collaboration with Helmut Rechenberg. This book deals with the most important themes developed in the first 40 years of the 20t...

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, 389 pages Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects—levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies—Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli reexamines su...

2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 440 p. The exploration of space. Global warming. Napoleon and science. The entry of women into astronomy. The exploration of Australia. The history of astronomy. Telescopes. The history of nuclear and particle physics. Pheromones. The history of mathematics. The Darwin/Wedgwood/Galton relationships. Mnemonics. The geological timescale. Science and the First World War (1914–18). The history of medicine. Sc...

Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 708 pp. This volume is a narrative and interpretive history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to the close of the twentieth century. Drawing upon the most recent methods and results in historical studies of science, the authors of over thirty chapters employ strategies from intellectual history, social history, and cultural studies to provide unusually wide-ranging and...

Forty-two essays by authors from five continents and many disciplines provide a synthetic account of the history of the social sciences-including behavioral and economic sciences since the late eighteenth century. The authors emphasize the cultural and intellectual preconditions of social science, and its contested but important role in the history of the modern world. While there are many historical books on particular disciplines, there are ver...