Science and the Indian Tradition

When Einstein Met Tagore

By David L. Gosling

This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48134-2 (Routledge)

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Global Science and National Sovereignty

Edited by Grégoire Mallard, Catherine Paradeise, Ashveen Peerbaye

Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science provides detailed case studies on how sovereignty has been constructed, reaffirmed, and transformed in the...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96345-9 (Routledge)

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By Fuller Watson

Originally published in 1971.

Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44091-2 (Routledge)

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By von Wright Georg Henrik

This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47021-6 (Routledge)

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By J G. Crowther

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47452-8 (Routledge)

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By J G. Crowther

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47453-5 (Routledge)

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By Peter Harman

Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47483-2 (Routledge)

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A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708

By K Theodore Hoppen

Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47484-9 (Routledge)

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And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph

By Geoffrey Hubbard

Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47485-6 (Routledge)

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1917-1932

By David Joravsky

Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47486-3 (Routledge)

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