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Alexander Von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt is one of the most celebrated figures of late-modern science, famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography and climatology. This volume traces Humboldt's biographical identities through Germany's collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientific heroes.
Science, Politics and the Public Good
An exploration of the relationship between scientific ideas, technology, government and politics, demonstrated by examples from the last 150 years, including the birth of the NHS, the Channel Tunnel, radiation protection, the atomic bomb and power, and nuclear power in the US and USSR.
Richard Owen
In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country.” But, a century and a half later, Owen remains largely obscured by the shadow of the most famous Victorian naturalist of all, Charles Darwin. Publicly marginalized by his contemporaries for his critique of natural selection, Owen suffered personal attacks that undermined his credibility long after his name faded from history. With this innovative biography, ...
Eminent Lives in Twentieth-century Science & Religion
Can science and religion coexist in harmony? Or is conflict inevitable? In this volume an international team of distinguished scholars addresses these enduring yet urgent questions by examining the lives of thirteen eminent twentieth-century scientists whose careers were marked by the interaction of science and religion: Rachel Carson, Charles A. Coulson, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Arthur S. Eddington, Albert Einstein, Ronald A. Fisher, Julian Huxley, Pascual Jordan, Robert A. Millikan, Ivan P. Pavlov, Michael I. Pupin, Abdus Salam, and Edward O. Wilson. The richly empirical studies show a diversity of creative engagements between science and religion that defy efforts to set the two at odds.
The Great Chain of History
Describes the early nineteenth-century English contributions to the revolutionary discovery that the earth has existed long before man and that it had passed through a progressive sequence of changes.
Göttingen and the Development of the Natural Sciences
Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1737 hat sich die Universität Göttingen als fruchtbarer Boden für das Aufblühen der Naturwissenschaften erwiesen. In der wissenschaftlichen Ahnengalerie der Universität finden sich Berühmtheiten wie etwa Albrecht von Haller, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Friedrich Wöhler und die genialen Mathematiker Carl Friedrich Gauß und David Hilbert. Im frühen 20. Jahrhundert trugen von Göttingen aus Max Born und Werner Heisenberg mit ihren innovativen Arbeiten zur Quantenphysik dazu bei, die Physik zu revolutionieren. Schon kurze Zeit nach der Stiftung der Nobelpreise hatten viele Preisträger eine Verbindung zu Göttingen, darunter Hermann Walther Nernst und James...
Geographies of Knowledge
J. Withers
Historical Disasters in Context
Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was the political role of disasters? Historical Disasters in Context illustrates how past societies coped with a th...
Geography and Enlightenment
Exploring both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment, 14 papers from a July 1996 conference in Edinburgh survey the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was shaped through map, text, exploration, and argument and within and across spatial and intellectual borders. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
