De Natura Fossilium [engl.]
Title | De Natura Fossilium [engl.] PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Agricola |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
De Natura Fossilium (Textbook of Mineralogy)
Title | De Natura Fossilium (Textbook of Mineralogy) PDF eBook |
Author | Georgius Agricola |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0486158551 |
This 1546 publication remains a landmark in geology, with unprecedented classifications by physical property and locality, simple standardized naming system, summaries of earlier studies, and employment of observation and personal experience.
De Natura Fossilium
Title | De Natura Fossilium PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Agricola |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Mineralogy |
ISBN |
De Natura Fossilium
Title | De Natura Fossilium PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Agricola |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Mineralogy |
ISBN |
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-century England
Title | The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-century England PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Preston |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198704801 |
This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkable 17th-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery.
Reader's Guide to the History of Science
Title | Reader's Guide to the History of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Arne Hessenbruch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 965 |
Release | 2013-12-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134262949 |
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Protogaea
Title | Protogaea PDF eBook |
Author | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2008-09-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0226112977 |
Protogaea, an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s thought and writings. In the book, Leibniz offers observations about the formation of the earth, the actions of fire and water, the genesis of rocks and minerals, the origins of salts and springs, the formation of fossils, and their identification as the remains of living organisms. Protogaea also includes a series of engraved plates depicting the remains of animals—in particular the famous reconstruction of a “fossil unicorn”—together with a cross section of the cave in which some fossil objects were discovered. Though the works of Leibniz have been widely translated, Protogaea has languished in its original Latin for centuries. Now Claudine Cohen and Andre Wakefield offer the first English translation of this central text in natural philosophy and natural history. Written between 1691 and 1693, and first published after Leibniz’s death in 1749, Protogaea reemerges in this bilingual edition with an introduction that carefully situates the work within its historical context.