Soundings and Crossings

Science & Math

Rozwadowski

Nature & Ecology

Science History Publications/USA

How and why, after many years of waiting, did Albert Einstein finally receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1921, awarded the following year? On the basis of a penetrating study of documents in the Nobel archive at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, the author reviews the sixty nominations Einstein received from 1910 to 1922. He analyses the arguments against relativity theory and the Committee's skepticism...

Einstein's Nobel Prize, A Glimpse Behind Closed Doors: The Archival Evidence (Archive of the Nobel Museum)

Biographies & Memoirs

Aant Elzinga

Arts & Literature

Cultures of Creativity: Birth of a 21st Century Museum (Nobel Museum Archives, 7)

History & Philosophy

This book analyses the individual research programs and strategies of members of this crucial community of twentieth century-chemists (academic researchers, instrument makers, government funding agencies) and provides important insights into the development of modern chemistry and its links to other sciences and technologies.

Shifting And Rearranging: Physical Methods And the Transformation of Modern Chemistry

Carsten Reinhardt

Chemistry

Joseph Henry (1797-1878), who discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance, was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. This volume contains Henry's correspondence and other papers from the period 1858-1865. Throughout the volume, these papers reveal the central role Henry played in the organization of American science. Coverage includes such events as the Dudley Observatory controversy and the establishment of the National Academy of Sciences. Science History Publications is a division of Watson Publishing. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Papers of Joseph Henry, Vol. 10: January 1858-December 1865, The Smithsonian Years

Examines in detail and with many specific references the transfer of natural collections from private to public spaces.

From Private to Public: Natural Collections and Museums (Uppsala Studies in the History of Science)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

The history of meteorology is a history of the artifacts and insights of modernity. It is, in some measure, a history of imperial aspirations and invention; a history of attempts to understand, predict, and even control phenomena that extend far beyond the local horizon and that change constantly on time scales ranging from geological eras and centuries to decades, years, seasons, and moments; a history of how individuals, immersed in and surrounded by the phenomena they study, attempt to construct privileged positions and address social and political imperatives. These essays, from eight of the leading historians of weather and climate, illuminate the hopes and struggles of researchers and practitioners from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, across a diverse set of issues, and on a vast array of spatial scales. If the book raises new questions or provides a measure of insight into old ones; if it stimulates in the reader a sense of the "otherness" of a bygone era or a sense of empathy and continuity with the past; if it conveys in any measure the contingency, curiosity, excitement, and frustration of the science and politics swirling around issues of weather and climate, we will deem it a success. We offer it with our sincere wish that it serves as a stimulus to related explorations in other areas of the history of science and technology that juxtapose the intimate and the universal, the local and the global.

Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Weather and Climate (Science-history Studies on Atmospheres)

James Rodger Fleming, Vladimir Jankovic, Deborah R. Coen, editors

Offers detailed consideration of forms of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and political systems. In particular, it focuses on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of these ever more densely entangled systems. The period 1770-1820 was decisive for the reformation of imperial projects in the wake of military catastrophe and politico-economic crisis, both in the Atlantic and the Asian/Pacific spheres, economic and political worlds dominated by complex trade systems and violent contest.

The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820

EDITORS

Simon Schaffer et al.

An instrument can change the world and compel us to rethink our place in the universe.The telescope did just this, but only when it was used by Galileo, whose eye was prepared to see new things and whose hand was able to depict what he saw. It was not only because Galileo was a gifted and persistent observer, but also because he was an exceptional draughtsman that he was able to discover what others had failed to see or lacked the ability to record.

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, Or a Sidereal Message

Galileo Galilei

Translated from the Latin by William R. Shea

Introduction and Notes by William R. Shea & Tiziana Bascelli

2nd Printing revised

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

This book documents the true story of the passionate defense of the unborn by physicians, beginning with Hippocrates, and continuing into the 20th century.

The Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion

Medical Books

Frederick N. Dyer

Nursing

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