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Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Connection of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Somerville
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Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book On the Connection of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Somerville
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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Download or read book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Somerville
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Total Pages : 710 pages
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Download or read book Mechanism of the Heavens written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathryn A. Neeley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626729
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville written by Kathryn A. Neeley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the leading woman of science in Great Britain during the nineteenth century.
Author : E.C. Patterson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400968396
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840 written by E.C. Patterson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.
Author : Mary 1780-1872 Somerville
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372324550
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (245 download)
Download or read book PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY written by Mary 1780-1872 Somerville and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James A. Secord
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620328X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Visions of Science written by James A. Secord and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. There was widespread social unrest, and debates raged regarding education, the lives of the working class, and the new industrial, machine-governed world. At the same time, modern science emerged in Europe in more or less its current form, as new disciplines and revolutionary concepts, including evolution and the vastness of geologic time, began to take shape. In Visions of Science, James A. Secord offers a new way to capture this unique moment of change. He explores seven key books—among them Charles Babbage’s Reflections on the Decline of Science, Charles Lyell’s Principles ofGeology, Mary Somerville’s Connexion of the Physical Sciences, and Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus—and shows how literature that reflects on the wider meaning of science can be revelatory when granted the kind of close reading usually reserved for fiction and poetry. These books considered the meanings of science and its place in modern life, looking to the future, coordinating and connecting the sciences, and forging knowledge that would be appropriate for the new age. Their aim was often philosophical, but Secord shows it was just as often imaginative, projective, and practical: to suggest not only how to think about the natural world but also to indicate modes of action and potential consequences in an era of unparalleled change. Visions of Science opens our eyes to how genteel ladies, working men, and the literary elite responded to these remarkable works. It reveals the importance of understanding the physical qualities of books and the key role of printers and publishers, from factories pouring out cheap compendia to fashionable publishing houses in London’s West End. Secord’s vivid account takes us to the heart of an information revolution that was to have profound consequences for the making of the modern world.
Author : Robyn Arianrhod
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ISBN 13 : 9780702237386
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Seduced by Logic written by Robyn Arianrhod and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Heroes, comes the gripping story of two of the most glamorous and influential women of mathematics Issac Newton's Principia changed forever humanity's understanding of its place in the universe - not with the traditional tools of theology or philosophy but with the seductive logic of mathematics. But it was feisty French aristocratic Émilie du Châtelet who played a key role in bring Newton's revolutionary opus to a Continental audience. Together with her lover Voltaire, Émilie - a largely self taught scholar - personified the exciting mix of science, literature, politics and philosophy that defined the Enlightenment. A century later, In Scotland, Mary Somerville taught herself mathematics and rose from genteel poverty to become a world authority on Newtonian physics. Mary's many books, and her charm, made her a legend in her own lifetime. Connected by their passion for mathematics, Mary and Émilie bring to life a defining period in science and politics, revealing the intimate links between the unfolding Newtonian revolution and the origins of intellectual and political liberty. Seduced by Logic is a thrilling foray into the lives of these extraordinary women - and the fascinating ideas that seduced them both. PRAISE FOR ROBYN ARIANRHOD'S EINSTEIN'S HEROES 'Robyn Arianrhod's passion for mathematics is so infectious, you'll scream 'Eureka' when you read her book.' HERALD-SUN 'I read this exhilarating book as I would a novel. Arianrhod combines a passion for her subject with an erudition that is rate for a storyteller' Robyn Williams, ABC'S THE SCIENCE SHOW
Author : Mary Somerville
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Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Somerville
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ISBN 13 : 375243242X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book On Molecular and Microscopic Science written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 by Mary Somerville
Author : Henry M. Cowles
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976193
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Method written by Henry M. Cowles and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising history of the scientific method—from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps—and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century. The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean something else: a way of thinking. The Scientific Method tells the story of how this approach took hold in laboratories, the field, and eventually classrooms, where science was once taught as a natural process. Henry M. Cowles reveals the intertwined histories of evolution and experiment, from Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection to John Dewey’s vision for science education. Darwin portrayed nature as akin to a man of science, experimenting through evolution, while his followers turned his theory onto the mind itself. Psychologists reimagined the scientific method as a problem-solving adaptation, a basic feature of cognition that had helped humans prosper. This was how Dewey and other educators taught science at the turn of the twentieth century—but their organic account was not to last. Soon, the scientific method was reimagined as a means of controlling nature, not a product of it. By shedding its roots in evolutionary theory, the scientific method came to seem far less natural, but far more powerful. This book reveals the origin of a fundamental modern concept. Once seen as a natural adaptation, the method soon became a symbol of science’s power over nature, a power that, until recently, has rarely been called into question.
Author : Alice Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199209928
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Space and the 'March of Mind' written by Alice Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the idea of space in the first half of the 19th century, this book uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give an account of 19th-century literature's relationship with science.
Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521363942
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Kant: Natural Science written by Immanuel Kant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together work by Kant never before available in English, along with new translations of his most important publications in natural science. The volume is rich in material for the student and the scholar, with extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, editorial introductions and a glossary of key terms.
Author : Mary Somerville
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Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Personal Recollections from Early Life to Old Age written by Mary Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Popova
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748145
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Figuring written by Maria Popova and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman—and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
Author : Allan Chapman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319093991
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Mary Somerville and the World of Science written by Allan Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father. She was active in astronomy, one of the most demanding areas of science of the day, and flourished in the unique British tradition of Grand Amateurs, who paid their own way and were not affiliated with any academic institution. Mary Somerville was to science what Jane Austen was to literature and Frances Trollope to travel writing. Allan Chapman’s vivid account brings to light the story of an exceptional woman, whose achievements in a field dominated by men deserve to be very widely known.
