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Natürliche schöpfungsgeschichte. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche vorträge über die entwickelungslehre im allgemeinen und diejenige through Ernst Haeckel.
This booklet is a duplicate of the unique e-book released in 1874 and should have a few imperfections comparable to marks or hand-written notes.

Talking Science discusses the position of language in educating and in communique of medical and technical matters. It identifies and analyzes the numerous options lecturers and scholars use to speak approximately technological know-how and to steer one another's ideals and behaviour. exact emphasis is put on interpreting styles of social interplay, the position of language and semantics in speaking clinical innovations, and the social values and pursuits which lie in the back of those styles of conversation. operating from transcripts of recordings made in genuine technology school rooms, this quantity is going past prior paintings at the association of school room discourse to teach how the conceptual content material of a really expert topic is basically communicated during the semantic styles that lecturers and scholars weave with language. sleek options of discourse research are used to put the verbal exchange of technology within the context of lecture room classes, debates, and disruptions. serious research extra exhibits how a mystique of technological know-how is perpetuated in school rooms and identifies the hidden social pursuits it serves.

The tales in the back of drug discovery are attention-grabbing, jam-packed with human and clinical curiosity. it is a ebook at the historical past of drug discovery that highlights the highbrow elegance of discoverers in addition to the human frailty linked them. background is replete with examples of leap forward medicinal drugs that experience kept thousands of lives. Ether as an anesthetic through Morton; penicillin as an antibiotic through Fleming; and insulin as an anti-diabetic by way of Banting are only a couple of examples. The discoverers of those medications are potentially benefactors to mankind--for example, with no penicillin, seventy five% people most likely wouldn't be alive simply because a few of our mom and dad or grandparents might have succumbed to infections.
Dr. Jack Li, a medicinal chemist who's in detail concerned with drug discovery, has assembled an astonishing quantity of evidence and knowledge at the back of vital medications via wide literature examine and interviews with many inventors of the medicine together with Viagra and Lipitor. there were many myths and inaccuracies linked to these mythical medicinal drugs. The inventors views afforded this publication a useful accuracy and perception simply because heritage isn't heritage except it really is true.
The textual content is supplemented by means of many anecdotes, images and postage stamps. either professional and layman will locate Laughing gasoline, Viagra, and Lipitor informative and wonderful. scholars in chemistry, pharmacy, and drugs, staff in healthcare and highschool technological know-how academics will locate this booklet so much useful.

How should still the idea that of proof be understood? and the way does the concept that of facts follow to the debate approximately creationism in addition to to paintings in evolutionary biology approximately ordinary choice and customary ancestry? during this wealthy and wide-ranging ebook, Elliott Sober investigates normal questions about likelihood and facts and exhibits how the solutions he develops to these questions practice to the specifics of evolutionary biology. Drawing on a suite of interesting examples, he analyzes no matter if claims approximately clever layout are untestable; whether or not they are discredited by means of the truth that many variations are imperfect; how proof bears on even if current species hint again to universal ancestors; how hypotheses approximately ordinary choice could be verified, and lots of different matters. His booklet will curiosity all readers who are looking to comprehend philosophical questions on proof and evolution, as they come up either in Darwin's paintings and in modern organic research.

Reviving the dwelling: which means Making in residing Systems offers a singular standpoint that pertains to present organic wisdom and concerns. Written via polymath Dr. Yair Neuman, the booklet demanding situations the dogmas that body our realizing of dwelling structures and offers a thorough replacement method of knowing the realm round us, person who avoids the pitfalls of non-scientific views comparable to Vitalism and Creationism.

In this suggestion scary and iconoclastic manuscript, Neuman follows the footsteps of Gregory Bateson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michael Polanyi and others, to indicate that dwelling platforms are which means making platforms. The ebook delves into the original procedures of that means making that symbolize organisms as a special class of nature, and provides new and engaging insights right into a number of enigmatic organic phenomena from immune reminiscence to hidden lifestyles (cryptobiosis). It includes 4 components divided into 18 chapters and covers subject matters starting from reductionism and its pitfalls to genetics; why organisms are irreducible; immunology; which means making in language and biology; meaning-bridging the space among physics and semantics; context and reminiscence; and the poetry of residing. middle innovations and subject matters are illustrated utilizing examples dependent in present science.

This textual content will be of excessive curiosity to biologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and semioticians, in addition to to any reflective person who's prepared to envision the area of the residing from a singular and engaging perspective.

* offers a singular viewpoint that pertains to present organic wisdom and issues
* Poses notion upsetting rules for theoretical biologists, these learning philosophy of technology and the brain, cognitive scientists, semioticians, and other people concerned with synthetic Intelligence.
* contains examples established in present technological know-how to demonstrate center suggestions and themes

Im Jahr 1900 entdeckten Schwammtaucher im Mittelmeer ein antikes Schiffswrack aus der Zeit um 70 v. Chr. und bargen vom Meeresgrund unter anderem einen Klumpen korrodierter Bronze. Er erwies sich als eines der erstaunlichsten Artefakte, die die Naturwissenschaft kennt: heute weltbekannt als der Kalendercomputer von Antikythera.

Dieses feinmechanische Wunderwerk ist Produkt eines technischen, astronomischen und mathematisch-physikalischen Wissens, das in den Jahrhunderten danach großteils wieder verlorenging. Eine analoge Rechenmaschine mit rund 30 Zahnrädern und epizyklischen Getriebezügen, die den elliptischen Verlauf der Planeten nachbildeten, und einem Differenzialgetriebe, das einen Sonnen- und einen Mondkalender synchronisierte – eine Getriebeart, wie sie in Westeuropa erst im 14. Jahrhundert neu erfunden wurde. Die Beschriftungen der Zahnräder deuten auf einen Ursprung in Syrakus, dorthin, wo nicht lange zuvor der große Archimedes gelebt hatte.

Seit über hundert Jahren wird der Mechanismus von Forschern mit Hingabe untersucht und nachgebaut, einige von ihnen ruinierten sich gesundheitlich, sozial und finanziell – der Apparat übte einen unheimlichen Zauber aus auf alle, die sich damit beschäftigten. Doch Stück für Stück entschlüsselten sie ein 2000 Jahre altes Rätsel; dieses Buch erzählt ihre faszinierende Geschichte.

Does technology paintings most sensible in a democracy? have been 'Soviet' or 'Nazi' technological know-how essentially diversified from technology within the united states? those questions were passionately debated within the fresh previous. specific advancements in technology came about less than specific political regimes, yet they might or won't were at once made up our minds by way of them.
Science and Ideology brings jointly a few comparative case experiences to envision the connection among technology and the dominant ideology of a kingdom. Cybernetics within the united states is in comparison to France and the Soviet Union. Postwar Allied technology coverage in occupied Germany is juxtaposed to that during Japan. The essays are narrowly focussed, but conceal a variety of nations and ideologies. the gathering offers a special comparative background of clinical rules and practices within the twentieth century.

Known in early glossy Europe by means of many names – the French illness, the Bubas, and, finally, syphilis – the nice Pox used to be a prolonged illness that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a gradual and painful loss of life. the most establishment which handled it, the pox sanatorium, has come all the way down to us as a stench-filled and overcrowded position that sought to regard the physique and reform the soul.

Using the only real surviving admissions booklet for Toledo, Spain’s clinic de Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of fellows and girls with the pox through tracing their reports ahead of, in the course of, and after their hospitalization. via an cutting edge mixture of clinical, institutional, and notarial assets, he explores the actual and social lives of the sufferers. What have been the social repercussions of dwelling with a shameful ailment? What did residing with this persistent affliction suggest for careers and networks, love and households, and daily relationships? From physique to Community is a textured research instantly touched by means of the ailment yet now not exclusively outlined through it.