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. ...