Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. His books include
The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (Princeton).
Mordechai Feingold is professor of history at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of
The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture.
11 Ebooks de Jed Z. Buchwald
Jed Z. Buchwald & A. Franklin: Wrong for the Right Reasons
The rapidity with which knowledge changes makes much of past science obsolete, and often just wrong, from the present’s point of view. We no longer think, for example, that heat is a material substan …
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Jed Z. Buchwald: A Master of Science History
New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field’s founders. …
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Jed Z. Buchwald & Robert Fox: Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics brings together cutting-edge writing by more than twenty leading authorities on the history of physics from the seventeenth century to the present day. B …
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€128.20
Jed Z. Buchwald: Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards in 19th and early 20th century Germany and Britain
The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions conce …
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Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold: Newton and the Origin of Civilization
Isaac Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man’s death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically …
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€72.99
Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz: The Riddle of the Rosetta
A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the …
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€28.99
Jed Z. Buchwald: Einstein Was Right
An authoritative interdisciplinary account of the historic discovery of gravitational waves In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime …
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€44.99
Jed Z. Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz: The Zodiac of Paris
The clash of faith and science in Napoleonic France The Dendera zodiac—an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets—was first discovered by the French …
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€57.99
Jed Z. Buchwald & I. Bernard Cohen: Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy
Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to light. This volume sin …
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€77.04
Jed Z. Buchwald: Creation of Scientific Effects
This book is an attempt to reconstitute the tacit knowledge-the shared, unwritten assumptions, values, and understandings-that shapes the work of science. Jed Z. Buchwald uses as his focus the social …
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