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Einführung in die höhere Mathematik für Naturforscher und Ärzte
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Year: 1913 Publisher: Jena : Fischer,

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Atti della Società toscana di scienze naturali residente in Pisa. Memorie. Serie A.
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ISSN: 03657655 Year: 1948 Publisher: Pisa : Grafiche Pacini Editore,


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Enlightened Joseph Priestley : a study of his life and work from 1773 to 1804.
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ISBN: 9780271036250 Year: 2009 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley's life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous-the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley's flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.


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Contributions to science.
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ISSN: 2013410X Year: 1999 Publisher: Barcelona : Institut d'Estudis Catalans,


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Aleph : Historical Studies in Science & Judaism
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ISSN: 15651525 15533956

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Aleph explores the interface between Judaism and science and studies the interactions between science and Judaism throughout history. Aleph features full-length articles, brief communications, and notes on recently published books, as well as studies on related subjects that allow a comparative view, such as the place of science in other cultures. Aleph is a joint publication of the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the Institute for Jewish Studies, both at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Indiana University Press.


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Science vs. religion : what scientists really think.
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ISBN: 0195392981 0199975000 9780195392982 9780199975006 0199777101 9786612731235 0199745536 1282731238 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever. In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard Ecklund investigates this unexamined assumption in the first systematic study of what scientists actually think and feel about religion. In the course of her research, Ecklund surveyed nearly 1,700 scientists and interviewed 275 of them. She finds that most of what we believe about the faith lives of elite scientists is wrong. Nearly 50 percent of them are religious. Many others are what she calls 'spiritual entrepreneurs, ' seeking creative ways to work with the tensions between science and faith outside the constraints of traditional religion. The book centers on vivid portraits of 10 representative men and women working in the natural and social sciences at top American research universities"--Page 2 of cover.


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The British journal for the history of science.
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ISSN: 1474001X 00070874 Year: 1962 Publisher: Ravensmead, Kent : British Society for the History of Science

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The British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS) publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history of science. History of science is interpreted widely to include medicine, technology and social studies of science. BJHS papers make important and lively contributions to scholarship and the journal has been an essential library resource for more than thirty years. It is also used extensively by historians and scholars in related fields. A substantial book review section is a central feature.


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Suhayl : journal for the history of the exact and natural sciences in Islamic civilisation.
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ISSN: 2013620X Year: 2000 Publisher: Barcelona : Universitat de Barcelona,


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