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The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. "See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-799-4
EAN 9781781687994
Are we entitled to say that Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radius of 150 million kilometers? Most educated people today would say yes. Curiously, however, three hundred years after the century of Enlightenment, the fact that these assertions constitute what it is ...
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- Pan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-7254-0
EAN 9781447272540
The much-acclaimed biography of Ada Lovelace, reissued to tie-in with the bicentenary of her birth in 2015Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron was born in 1815 just after the Battle of Waterloo, and died aged 36, soon after the Great Exhibition of 1851. She was connected with some of the most influential and colourful ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50423-3
EAN 9780674504233
Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women's intellectual equality to men.The era of the ...
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Sarah Bridger examines the ethical debates that tested the U.S. scientific community during the Cold War, and scientists' contributions to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age through the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the 1980s, which sparked cross-generational opposition among scientists.Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-74443-1
EAN 9780674744431
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-723-5
EAN 9781848667235
What happens when a star dies? How many asteroids are in our solar system? Can galaxies collide? What is dark energy? Astronomy in Minutes answers all these questions and more as it condenses 200 key concepts into easily digestible essays. From Trojan asteroids to stellar black holes, and from superclusters to cosmic microwave background, this ...
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic
The Princeton Thesis
Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world--including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73691-7
EAN 9780674736917
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35089-0
EAN 9780393350890
Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, further and more efficiently than they had before. As secretary of France's Lighthouse Commission, he planned and oversaw the lighting of the nation's coast.Although ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 31,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15726-9
EAN 9780691157269
J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies--a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here is his gripping insider's account of how a ...
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- Little&Brown, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 19,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14043-8
EAN 9780349140438
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. 'In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography', Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, key ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95463-8
EAN 9780241954638
In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality. Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-62892-632-3
EAN 9781628926323
Drones are a catch-all, and ominous, technological category, but when we talk about drones we are really talking about our own relationship with this technology.Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, ...
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The Moral Arc
How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
- Henry Holt, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8050-9691-0
EAN 9780805096910
From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts ...
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Life Lessons fron Space
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and ...
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- Cassell, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 554 páginas
PVP: 30,96 €
ISBN 978-1-84403-809-1
EAN 9781844038091
From the first particles of matter and atomic building-blocks to hydrogen fusion, large galaxies and supermassive black holes, with a healthy dose of history and fun facts to glue everything together, this is your very own guide to How to Build a Universe. Using a mixture of eye-catching graphics, humour and structured narrative, in How ...
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- Granta Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15284-4
EAN 9780691152844
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu-themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents the essential tools of econometric research and demonstrates why econometrics is exciting and useful.The ...
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The Invention of Nature
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt. The Lost Hero of Science .
- Random House UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-385-35066-2
EAN 9780385350662
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Consciousness And The Brain
Deciphering How The Brain Codes Our Thoughts
- Penguin USA, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312626-3
EAN 9780143126263
A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain.How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before.
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