History: theory & methods books

12130 books were found.

Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies

Newton and Newtonianism: New Studies

Author: J.E. Force ,  S. Hutton
ISBN: 9789048165568
Format: Paperback
$419.76

Contains eleven essays by eminent scholars which focus on Newton's theology, his study of alchemy, the early reception...  Read More >>

The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering in the World Religions

The Origin and the Overcoming of Evil and Suffering...

Author: P. Koslowski
ISBN: 9789048159000
Format: Paperback
$314.16

The explanations in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism of evil and suffering and their origin,...  Read More >>

The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700

The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and...

Author: R.L. Friedman ,  L.O. Nielsen
ISBN: 9789048164271
Format: Paperback
$525.36

On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of...  Read More >>

Travels of Learning: A Geography of Science in Europe

Travels of Learning: A Geography of Science in Europe...

Author: Ana Simões ,  A. Carneiro
ISBN: 9789048162819
Format: Paperback
$446.16

The idea behind this book grew out of a research project launched by the international group STEP (Science and Technology...  Read More >>

A Boole Anthology: Recent and Classical Studies in the Logic of George Boole

A Boole Anthology: Recent and Classical Studies in the...

Author: James Gasser
ISBN: 9789048154913
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Modern mathematical logic would not exist without the analytical tools first developed by George Boole in The Mathematical...  Read More >>

Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

Elements, Principles and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism...

Author: Antonio Clericuzio
ISBN: 9789048156405
Format: Paperback
$419.76

In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular...  Read More >>

1543 and All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity in the Proto-Scientific Revolution

1543 and All That: Image and Word, Change and Continuity...

Author: G. Freeland ,  Anthony Corones
ISBN: 9789048153022
Format: Paperback
$623.04

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and...  Read More >>

The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma: Astrology, Theology and Science in Albertus Magnus and his Contemporaries

The Speculum Astronomiae and Its Enigma: Astrology,...

Author: P. Zambelli
ISBN: 9789048140985
Format: Paperback
$670.56

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Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the ‘Historia Philosophica’

Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins...

Author: Philip Weller ,  Giovanni Santinello
ISBN: 9789048142545
Format: Paperback
$894.96

Gives a comprehensive description of the various forms and approaches in the literature of the history of philosophy...  Read More >>

Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science

Realism and Anti-Realism in the Philosophy of Science...

Author: Robert S. Cohen ,  R. Hilpinen
ISBN: 9789048144938
Format: Paperback
$755.04

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Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific Realism and Commonsense

Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science: Scientific...

Author: S. Clarke ,  T.D. Lyons
ISBN: 9789048161072
Format: Paperback
$308.88

Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and...  Read More >>

Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory Sciences

Tools and Modes of Representation in the Laboratory...

Author: U. Klein
ISBN: 9789048158591
Format: Paperback
$332.64

constitutive of reference in laboratory sciences as cultural sign systems and their manipulation and superposition,...  Read More >>

Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European...

Author: J.E. Force ,  R.H. Popkin
ISBN: 9789048156641
Format: Paperback
$366.96

"" Happily, this ""official"" interpretation of the events of the early modern period - in which scholars have too...  Read More >>

Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: An Analysis of Main Themes in His Critical Philosophy

Kant’s Transcendental Deduction: An Analysis of Main...

Author: R.C. Howell
ISBN: 9789048141142
Format: Paperback
$776.16

In his new book, Robert Howell interprets main themes of the Deduction using ideas from contemporary philosophy...  Read More >>

Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: Essays in Honour of Heinz Post

Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: Essays in...

Author: S. French ,  H. Kamminga
ISBN: 9789048142293
Format: Paperback
$765.60

This volume is presented in honour of Heinz Post, who founded a distinc­ tive and distinguished school of philosophy...  Read More >>

The Books of Nature and Scripture: Recent Essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza’s Time and the British Isles of Newton’s Time

The Books of Nature and Scripture: Recent Essays on...

Author: J.E. Force ,  R.H. Popkin
ISBN: 9789048143214
Format: Paperback
$419.76

The authors have attended a number of conferences where it was apparent that important research was being done in...  Read More >>

Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural...

Author: Peter Damerow
ISBN: 9789048146444
Format: Paperback
$683.76

Deals with the development of thinking under different cultural conditions, focusing on the evolution of mathematical...  Read More >>

Leibniz and the Kabbalah

Leibniz and the Kabbalah

Author: A.P. Coudert
ISBN: 9789048144655
Format: Paperback
$498.96

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The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope

The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope...

Author: Cesare Barbieri ,  Jürgen H. Rahe
ISBN: 9789048149551
Format: Paperback
$580.77

The idea of having a conference in Padova describing the results obtained by the Galileo spacecraft and the characteristics...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt

Eighteenth-Century British Premiers: Walpole to the...

Author: D. Leonard
ISBN: 9780230284784
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge

Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies...

Author: Feza Günergun ,  Dhruv Raina
ISBN: 9789048199679
Format: Hardback
$366.96

This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that...  Read More >>

Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community

Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival...

Author: Hester Lessard ,  Rebecca Johnson
ISBN: 9780774818797
Format: Hardback
$248.16

An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many...  Read More >>

History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 200 Years

History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American...

Author: Kyle Ward
ISBN: 9781458729927
Format: Paperback
$71.25

From the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons comes an examination of ways in which Americans tell the...  Read More >>

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