Publications
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Bernardino Baldi "In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes"
(2011)
_In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes_, scritte da Bernardino Baldi, vengono ristampate – provviste d'introduzione e commento – come quarto volume della collana _Sources_ della _Max Planck Research Library ...
Bernardino Baldi’s In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes
(2011)
_In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes_ written by Bernardino Baldi is reprinted with an introduction and commentary as the third volume of the series _Sources of the Max Planck Research Library for the History ...
Cavendish: The Experimental Life
(2016)
Two gifted eighteenth-century Londoners, Charles Cavendish and his painfully preeminent son Henry were descendants of paired revolutions, one political and one scientific. Scions of a powerful revolutionary family, they ...
Catalysis for the Conversion of Biomass and Its Derivatives
(2013)
Biomass will play an important role in the future for the replacement of fossil sources for fuels and chemicals. Catalytic processes are required for the efficient conversion of biomass. The development of such processes ...
Niccolò Cusano. Scritti matematici: Introduzione, traduzione e note
(2020)
Cusano è un personaggio chiave della cultura occidentale: molti e importanti sono i contributi che egli dà in ambito filosofico, giuridico, religioso e politico. Gli studi critici hanno evidenziato e continuano a evidenziare ...
New Vistas on Old Problems: Recent Approaches to the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
(2013)
Quantum theory has been a subject of interpretational debates ever since its inception. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, the empirical violation of Bell’s inequalities, and recent activities to exploit quantum entanglement ...
Non-Isothermal Kinetic Methods: Workbook and Laboratory Manual
(2013)
In the modern world of ever-advancing technologies, actual tests of products and processes are more and more often preceded, if not replaced, by computer modeling. This saves the time and resources required for actual ...
Metallurgy, Ballistics and Epistemic Instruments: The Nova scientia of Nicolò Tartaglia – A New Edition
(2013)
In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia (1500–1557), a mathematician from Brescia, published "Nova scientia." It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia’s intention was to create a purely ...
Quantum Gravity in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Sourcebook
(2018)
This volume collects the earliest contributions to what is now known as quantum gravity research: the attempt to bring together quantum theory and the general theory of relativity. Covering the period from 1916-1950, it ...
Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo Archives
(2020)
Photographs are not simply images but also historically shaped three-dimensional objects. They hold a physical presence, bear traces of handling and use, and circulate in social, political, and institutional networks. ...
Pseudo-Proklos’ Sphaera: Die Sphaera-Gattung im 16. Jahrhundert
(2020)
Pseudo-Proklos' Sphaera (Σφαῖρα) ist eine griechische Einführung in die Astronomie, die ursprünglich von dem Stoiker Geminos (Εἰσαγωγὴ εἰς τὰ φαινόμενα) aus dem 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr. stammt, jedoch im späten 15. Jahrhundert ...
Seri-Technics: Historical Silk Technologies
(2020)
At a time when the social and cultural importance of silk in the pre-modern global world is increasingly evident, this volume returns to the issue of technology and queries the ways in which actors determined the nature ...
Shifting Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn and the History of Science
(2016)
The publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962 stands for a turning point in the history and philosophy of science. The repercussions of this work have rearticulated the theoretical ...
Science in Court Society: Giovan Battista Benedetti’s “Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber” (Turin, 1585)
(2019)
Giovanni Battista Benedetti is counted as one of the most brilliant mathematical and philosophical minds of the late Italian Renaissance. However, the theoretical and historical relevance of his work is still obscure in ...
Research and Pedagogy: A History of Quantum Physics through Its Textbooks
(2013)
Historians of quantum physics and early quantum mechanics have seldom paid attention to the ways the new theory was integrated in physics textbooks, perhaps taking for granted that novelties in science can only be taught ...
The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference
(2011)
In January 1957, a group of physicists from several countries met at the University of North Carolina to discuss the role of gravitation in physics. The program was divided into two broad sections: unquantized and quantized ...
Spatial Thinking and External Representation: Towards a Historical Epistemology of Space
(2016)
Spatial knowledge takes different forms in different societies and at different times in history depending on the spatial experiences accounted for and the available means for the external representation of knowledge. The ...
Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between: Antonio Vallisneri's 'Primi Itineris Specimen'
(2018)
In the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern ...
Traditions and Transformations in the History of Quantum Physics
(2013)
More than a century after the beginning of the quantum revolution, historians continue to explore new facets in the history of quantum physics, and to re-examine some of its better-known aspects. The thirteen papers collected ...
„Dem Anwenden muss das Erkennen vorausgehen“: Auf dem Weg zu einer Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
(2015)
Anknüpfend an die Tradition der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft ist die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft heute eine einzigartige Institution der Grundlagenforschung, die weltweit Attraktivität und Vorbildwirkung besitzt. Auf welchen ...