Author: Peter Guthrie Tait
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science
Author: Peter Guthrie Tait
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science, with a Special Lecture on Force
Author: Peter Guthrie Tait
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science With a Special Lecture on Force by P.G. Tait: W
Author: Peter Guthrie Tait
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781016930178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781016930178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Subject List of Works on General Science, Physics, Sound, Music, Light, Microscopy, and Philosophical Instruments, in the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Nature
Nervous Conditions
Author: Elizabeth Green Musselman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791482065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers—including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others—Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important part in the sciences' movement to the center of modern life, and how a scientific community and a nation struggled their way into existence. Many of these natural philosophers endured serious nervous difficulties, particularly vision problems. They turned these weaknesses into strengths, however, by claiming that their well-disciplined mental skills enabled them to transcend their bodily frailties. Their adeptness at transcendence, they asserted, explained why men of science belonged at the heart of modern life, and qualified them to address such problems as unifying the British provinces into one nation, managing the industrial workplace, and accommodating religious plurality.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791482065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers—including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others—Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important part in the sciences' movement to the center of modern life, and how a scientific community and a nation struggled their way into existence. Many of these natural philosophers endured serious nervous difficulties, particularly vision problems. They turned these weaknesses into strengths, however, by claiming that their well-disciplined mental skills enabled them to transcend their bodily frailties. Their adeptness at transcendence, they asserted, explained why men of science belonged at the heart of modern life, and qualified them to address such problems as unifying the British provinces into one nation, managing the industrial workplace, and accommodating religious plurality.
Bodies/Machines
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
Book Description
Catalogue of the library of the Pharmaceutical society of Great Britain. Appended in the catalogue of the North British branch
Author: John William Knapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Author: John William Knapman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pharmacology
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pharmacology
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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