Series - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Topic Areas >  Humanities -  History, Philosophy, & Sociology of Science -  History, Philosophy, & Sociology of Technology >  Science, Technology, and Society -  Technology -  Technology Studies Publications 1 - 20 of 30 Sort by Title (A-Z) Sort by Title (Z-A) Sort by Publication Date (1936-2010) Sort by Publication Date (2010-1936) Sort by Availability Result Page: 1 2 Next Affinity, That Elusive Dream A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution Mi Gyung Kim A reexamination of the eighteenth-century Chemical Revolution that gives proper due to the concept of chemical affinity. Cloth / April 2003 OUT OF PRINT Affinity, That Elusive Dream A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution Mi Gyung Kim A reexamination of the eighteenth-century Chemical Revolution that gives proper due to the concept of chemical affinity. Paper / March 2008 Price $29.00 | ADD TO CART American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe John Krige How the United States used its position as the world's leading scientific and technological power to rebuild European scientific practices and institutions and align them with American interests during the first two decades of the Cold War. Cloth / November 2006 Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe John Krige How the United States used its position as the world's leading scientific and technological power to rebuild European scientific practices and institutions and align them with American interests during the first two decades of the Cold War. Paper / September 2008 Price $23.00 | ADD TO CART Conserving the Enlightenment French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution Janis Langins A study of French military engineers at a crucial point in the evolution of modern engineering. Cloth / December 2003 Price $60.00 | ADD TO CART Crafting the Quantum Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926 Suman Seth An intellectual and cultural history of the birth of theoretical physics in Germany, focusing on the pedagogy and research of a leader in work on the "older" quantum theory. Cloth / March 2010 Price $32.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism A Study in Translation and Transformation Sander Gliboff A revisionist view of the history of German Darwinism examines the translation of Darwin's work and its early reception in Germany. Cloth / September 2008 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART Harmonious Triads Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany Myles W. Jackson An analysis of the intersection of science and music in nineteenth-century Germany: how music provided physicists with a venue for experiments as well as a cultural resource, and how physics assisted musicians in their art and musical instrument makers in their craft. Cloth / December 2006 Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART Harmonious Triads Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany Myles W. Jackson An analysis of the intersection of science and music in nineteenth-century Germany: how music provided physicists with a venue for experiments as well as a cultural resource, and how physics assisted musicians in their art and musical instrument makers in their craft. Paper / September 2008 Price $23.00 | ADD TO CART Heredity Produced At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 Edited by Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations. Cloth / March 2007 Price $52.00 | ADD TO CART Historia Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe Edited by Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits. Cloth / August 2005 Price $53.00 | ADD TO CART Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method Niccolò Guicciardini An analysis of Newton's mathematical work, from early discoveries to mature reflections, and a discussion of Newton's views on the role and nature of mathematics. Cloth / October 2009 Price $55.00 | ADD TO CART Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance George Saliba The rise and fall of the Islamic scientific tradition, and the relationship of Islamic science to European science during the Renaissance. Cloth / April 2007 Price $43.00 | ADD TO CART Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters Edited by Mordechai Feingold A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview. Cloth / December 2002 Price $52.00 | ADD TO CART Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science A Historical Ontology Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre A history of raw materials and chemical substances from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries that scrutinizes the modes of identification and classification used by chemists and learned practitioners of the period, examining the ways in which their practices and understanding of the material objects changed. Cloth / April 2007 Price $43.00 | ADD TO CART Nationalizing Science Adolphe Wurtz and the Battle for French Chemistry Alan J. Rocke After looking at the early careers of Wurtz's two mentors, Liebig and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Rocke describes Wurtz's life and career in the politically complex period leading up to 1853. He then discusses the turning point in Wurtz's intellectual life—his conversion to the "reformed chemistry" of Laurent, Gerhardt, and Williamson—and his efforts to persuade his colleagues of the advantages of the new system. Cloth / November 2000 Price $52.00 | ADD TO CART A Nuclear Winter's Tale Science and Politics in the 1980s Lawrence Badash The rise and fall of the concept of nuclear winter, played out in research activity, public relations, and Reagan-era politics. Cloth / September 2009 Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART Picturing Machines 1400-1700 Edited by Wolfgang Lefèvre How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Cloth / August 2004 Price $40.00 | ADD TO CART Red Prometheus Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 Dolores L. Augustine This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. Cloth / November 2007 Price $43.00 | ADD TO CART Secrets of Nature Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Edited by William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life. Cloth / November 2001 OUT OF PRINT Result Page:   1 2 Next

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