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  • Homage to Evangelista Torricelli’s Opera Geometrica 1644–2024

    Text, Transcription, Commentaries and Selected Essays as New Historical Insights

    by Raffaele Pisano, Jean Dhombres, Patricia Radelet de Grave, Paolo Bussotti ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Evangelista Torricelli exemplifies the use the moderns made of the ancients' mathematical methods. Celebrating Evangelista Torricelli's monumental Opera geometrica, this book marks 380 years since its publication (1644-2024). This homage to Torricelli introduces the magnificent major work in Mechanics and Mathematics of a brilliant Archimedean–and–Galilean scientist to modern readers.Opera ... Read more

    $244.99 CAD

  • Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century

    Selections from Quesiti et inventioni diverse: Books VII–VIII

    by Raffaele Pisano, Danilo Capecchi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554).In the early 16th century mechanics was concerned mainly with what is now called statics and was referred to as the Scientia de ponderibus ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Essay on Machines in General (1786)

    Text, Translations and Commentaries. Lazare Carnot's Mechanics - Volume 1

    by Raffaele Pisano, Jennifer Coopersmith, Murray Peake ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emergingof 19th century. This research volume is the first of a set of three Springer books onLazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot’s (1753–1823) remarkable work: Essay on Machines inGeneral (Essai sur les machines en général [1783] 1786). The other ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance

    Part I: Cultural & Fundamental Frameworks

    Edited by Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series Book 1 - Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This first of a two-part volume (Book I) deals with a unit intellectual cultural history of science in the Renaissance within fundamental frameworks. An intellectual cultural history of science examines how human and their intellectual experiences have been expressed in, and emerged by scientific ideas. Taking into account the excellence of the essays – which cover several branches and disciplines ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance

    Part II: Cultural, Fundamental & Technological Frameworks

    Edited by Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series Book 2 - Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This second of a two-part volume (Book II) extends the historical–scientific inquiry of first-part volume (Book I) by considering other specific case studies within cultural, fundamental & technological frameworks. An intellectual cultural history of science & technology examines how human and their applied sciences-experiences have been expressed in, and trained by ideas and technologies. The ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Nanoscience & Nanotechnologies

    Critical Problems, Science in Society, Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Nanoscience has explored new modelling and new devices in the applied sciences and technologies, in health and life sciences. This includes work on structures, nano-machines, communications, environment and materials science, closing the gap for society toward a sustainable civilization. Feynman's Plenty of Room (1959) opened a new perspective/science in society debate: how can we handle the ... Read more

    $409.99 CAD

  • Lazare and Sadi Carnot

    A Scientific and Filial Relationship

    by Charles Coulston Gillispie, Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • A History of Physics: Phenomena, Ideas and Mechanisms

    Essays in Honor of Salvo D'Agostino

    Edited by Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ranging across the entire field, related in most instances to the works of Salvo D'Agostino (1921-2020), one of the field's most prominent scholars since the second half of the past century. A phenomenon is an observable measurable fact, including data ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Hypotheses and Perspectives in the History and Philosophy of Science

    Homage to Alexandre Koyré 1892-1964

    Edited by Joseph Agassi, Raffaele Pisano, Daria Drozdova ...
    Series series History (R0)
    To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his passing (in 2014), this special book features studies on Alexandre Koyré (1892–1964), one of the most influential historians of science of the 20th century, who re-evaluated prevalent thinking on the history and philosophy of science. In particular, it explores Koyré’s intellectual matrix and heritage within interdisciplinary fields of historical, ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks

    Sciences, Society and Technology Studies

    Edited by Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book analyzes scientificproblems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine, correlated with technological applications in the social context. When and how is tension between disciplines explicitly practised? What is the conceptual bridge between science researches and the organization of technological researches in the development of industrial applications ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Dialectic Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in the XIXth Century

    Edited by Evelyne Barbin, Raffaele Pisano ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of physics in mathematics and to investigate Mathematical Physics as precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this dialectical link itself. So the main question is: When and why did the tension between mathematics and physics, explicitly practised at least since ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    A European Story

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    Translated by Catherine Bolton ...
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