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  • Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique

    by Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book provides a unique contribution to philosophy of science from the perspective of the practice of science. It focuses on processes that generate scientific knowledge and seeks general and universal features that characterize scientific practice; features that are inherent to the practice of science. Science is an activity, and the scientist is an agent who pursues some practice, which in ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Reflections on the Practice of Physics

    James Clerk Maxwell’s Methodological Odyssey in Electromagnetism

    by Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    This monograph examines James Clerk Maxwell’s contributions to electromagnetism to gain insight into the practice of science by focusing on scientific methodology as applied by scientists. First and foremost, this study is concerned with practices that are reflected in scientific texts and the ways scientists frame their research. The book is therefore about means and not ends. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Error and Uncertainty in Scientific Practice

    Edited by Marcel Boumans, Giora Hon, Arthur Petersen ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    Assessment of error and uncertainty is a vital component of both natural and social science. This edited volume presents case studies of research practices across a wide spectrum of scientific fields. It compares methodologies and presents the ingredients needed for an overarching framework applicable to all. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535–1615): A Reassessment

    Edited by Arianna Borrelli, Giora Hon, Yaakov Zik ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics.Della Porta's groundbreaking book, Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), includes a prototype of the camera. Yet, because of his obsession with magic, Della Porta's scientific ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

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  • Void

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    by James Owen Weatherall ...
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  • The Sciences of the Artificial, third edition

    by Herbert A. Simon ...
    Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important ... Read more

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    Correspondence with H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, and Erwin Schrödinger

    by Albert Einstein ...
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  • The Periodic Table:Its Story and Its Significance

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