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History

Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

Harrison Peter, Numbers Ronald L., Shank Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226317830, ISBN: HB: 9780226317816, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 4 halftones

When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early moder...

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Between Raphael and Galileo Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy

Marr Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226506289, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
384 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 25 halftones, 55 colour illus.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A prime example of the artisan-scholar so prevalent i...

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Mathematics

Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms

Navas Andres

ISBN: HB: 9780226569512, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line illus.

In recent years scholars from a variety of branches of mathematics have made several significant developments in the theory of group actions".Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms" systematically explores group actions on the simplest closed manifold, the...

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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Evolution

Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm

Donohue Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226157719, ISBN: HB: 9780226157702, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
512 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 tables, 34 halftones, 70 line illus.

Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands – the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most famil...

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Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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Nature

Ambonese Herbal Volume 1

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153705, Yale University Press, May 2011
544 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 124 black&white illus., 3 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Ambonese Herbal Volume 4

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153736, Yale University Press, May 2011
624 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 136 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Ambonese Herbal Volume 6

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153750, Yale University Press, May 2011
128 pp., 28.8x20 cm

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Ambonese Herbal Volume 5

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153743, Yale University Press, May 2011
640 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 138 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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