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Pioneering Israeli Women In Electronic Computing (1953-1970)

by Leo Corry e Raya Leviathan

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 This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals of Israeli computing history.
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Galileo And Satellite Navigation

by Alessandro de Angelis

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 <p>This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context. It bridges the techniques developed by the Greeks and medieval astronomers with later innovations like precision clocks, 20th-century wireless technology, and space-based navigation.</p><p>The primary source is the twenty-volume National Edition of the Works of Galileo (published 1890-1909 by Antonio Favaro) and the update edited by Michele Camerota and Patrizia Ruffo in 2019, which includes previously unpublished documents on Galileo''s negotiations with the Spanish government for selling his longitude-determining method at sea.</p><p>This book inspired the 2024 "International Research Day in the World," focused on geolocation, organized by the Italian Permanent Delegation to International Organizations in Paris. In collaboration with Museo Galileo in Florence and Sorbonne Université, the event featured the exhibition "Galileo and Satellite Navigation," showcased at the Pierre et Marie Curie Campus in Paris (June 13-28, 2024), and later at the Italian Institutes of Culture in Prague and Amsterdam, and at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.</p>
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Explorations And False Trails - The Innovative Techniques That Brought About Modern Algebra

by Jens Hoyrup

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 The existence of the Italian abacus and German cossic algebra is at most taken note of but they are not read, leading to the idea that ViÃ¨te's and Descartes' use of genuine symbolism (not only abbreviations), many unknowns, and abstract coefficients seem to be miraculous leaps.
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Philosophy And Allotment : John Locke'S Influence On Henry L. Dawes

by David Bergeron

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 Through a philosophical analysis of Dawesâ€™ ideas and policies, the book provides a new approach to arrive at a better understanding of an important historical process. This book clarifies the impact of philosophical ideas on historical conceptions, and by studying Dawes, also addresses the reflection behind a major historical process.
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Establishing Quantum Physics In Gottingen - David Hilbert, Max Born, And Peter Debye In Context, 1900-1926

by Arne Schirrmacher

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 Quantum mechanics - the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level - was first formulated in Göttingen in 1925. How did this come about and why is it that Göttingen became the pre-eminent location for a revolution in physics? This book is the first to investigate the wide range of factors that were pivotal for quantum physics to be established in Göttingen. These include the process of generational change of physics professors, the hopes of mathematicians seeking new fields of research, and a new understanding of the interplay of experiment, theory and philosophy.<div><br></div><div><div>The other books in the four-volume collection address the beginnings of quantum physics research at Copenhagen, Berlin, and Munich. These works emerged from an expansive study on the quantum revolution as a major transformation of physical knowledge undertaken by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Fritz Haber Institute (2006-2012).<br></div><div>Formore on this project, see the dedicated Feature Story, The Networks of Early Quantum Theory, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/feature-story/networks-early-quantum-theory.</div></div>
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Weizac: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure In Electronic Computing (1945-1963)

by Leo Corry e Raya Leviathan

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 <p>The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a "new nation" in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the early computer projects, was privately financed mainly by the Jewish world community. The book draws on a wealth of documents and historical insights to reveal the processes and powers that led to the successful completion of the project and, as well as its actual impact on scientific activities in Israel, and on the rise of a local computing community.</p>Based on archival data, the book shows how a synergy of personal dedication together with an organizational and national mission that links the Zionist vision with science and technology for the Jewish people helped to achieve a well-defined goal.<br>The book offers intriguing insights and refreshing perspectives to all readers interested in the Zionist movement or inthe history of computing.
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Turbulence Problem - A Persistent Riddle In Historical Perspective

by Michael Eckert

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 On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the â€œturbulence problemâ€.
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Heisenberg'S 1958 Weltformel And The Roots Of Post-Empirical Physics

by Alexander S. Blum

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 This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenbergâ€™s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an endeavour that continues to define research in fundamental physics to this day.
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History Of Research On Chemical Periodic Processes

by Alexander Pechenkin

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 This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American and Russian approaches to the development of chemistry.
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Reassessing Riemann'S Paper - On The Number Of Primes Less Than A Given Magnitude

by Walter Dittrich

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 In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc.
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From Transuranic To Superheavy Elements - A Story Of Dispute And Creation

by Helge Kragh

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 The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. It tells the story or rather parts of the story, of how physicists and chemists created elements heavier than uranium or searched for them in nature.
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Development Of Elementary Quantum Theory

by Herbert Capellmann

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 Further, it discusses the essential differences between the fundamental equations of Quantum Theory derived by Born and Jordan, logically comprising Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Optics, and the traditional view of the development of Quantum Mechanics.
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Building The General Relativity And Gravitation Community During The Cold War

by Roberto Lalli

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 Or, was there something in the nature of the field that inspired the actors to pioneer new ways of international cooperation? The book will be of interest to historians of modern science, historians of international relations, and historians of institutions.
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Mary Somerville And The World Of Science

by Allan Chapman

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 <p>Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father.</p><p>She was active in astronomy, one of the most demanding areas of science of the day, and flourished in the unique British tradition of Grand Amateurs, who paid their own way and were not affiliated with any academic institution.</p><p>Mary Somerville was to science what Jane Austen was to literature and Frances Trollope to travel writing. Allan Chapman’s vivid account brings to light the story of an exceptional woman, whose achievements in a field dominated by men deserve to be very widely known.</p>
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Rising Time Schemes In Babylonian Astronomy

by John M. Steele

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 This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic and the time it takes for a fixed-length of the ecliptic beginning at that point to rise above the eastern horizon.
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The Voyage From Vortex To Helicity (1517 Â€“ 1969) - A Brief History

by John Z. Shi

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Reassessing Riemann'S Paper - On The Number Of Primes Less Than A Given Magnitude

by Walter Dittrich

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Establishing Quantum Physics In Gottingen - David Hilbert, Max Born, And Peter Debye In Context, 1900-1926

by Arne Schirrmacher

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