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The astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini by Chabás, José, 1948-, Goldstein, Bernard R.

“…Medieval and early modern science ;…”
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Key texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the science and art of nature by Ritter, Johann Wilhelm, 1776-1810

“…Medieval and early modern science ;…”
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Ordering the heavens : Roman astronomy and cosmology in the Carolingian renaissance by Eastwood, Bruce

“…Medieval and early modern science ;…”
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Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts

“…Medieval and early modern science ;…”
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Verse and transmutation : a corpus of Middle English alchemical poetry (critical editions and studies) by Timmermann, Anke

“…Medieval and early modern science ;…”
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Venus Seen on the Sun : the First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks by Horrocks, Jeremiah, 1617?-1641

“…Medieval and early modern science ;…”
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Civilization and monsters : spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan by Figal, Gerald A., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Bakumatsu Bakemono -- Words and changing things: grasping Fushigi in Meiji Japan -- Modern science and the folk -- Modern "science" of the folk -- Transforming the commonplace: Fushigi as critique -- Supernatural ideology.…”
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On their own terms : science in China, 1550-1900 / Science in China, 1550-1900 by Elman, Benjamin A., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Evidential research and the restoration of ancient learning ; Seeking the truth and high Qing mathematics -- IV. Modern science and the Protestants. Protestants, education, and modern science to 1880 ; The construction of modern science in late Qing China -- V. …”
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Developing nursing knowledge : philosophical traditions and influences by Rodgers, Beth L.

Table of Contents: “…Understanding nursing knowledge -- Knowledge in classical philosophy -- Knowledge from within: the rationalism of Descartes -- The road to modern science: British empiricism -- The transcendental idealism of Immanual Kant -- Modern science: mirror of reality -- Science in context: historicist conceptualizations of science -- Conceptual repertoires and leaps -- The postmodern turn -- Interpretive inquiry: the mirror cracked -- Feminism and science -- Problems and practicalities in developing nursing knowledge -- Models for nursing knowledge development -- The future of nursing knowledge.…”
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Imagining the future : science and American democracy by Levin, Yuval

Table of Contents: “…The moral challenge of modern science -- The crisis of everyday life -- Two cultures? …”
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INTELLIGIBLE DESIGN : a REALISTIC APPROACH TO THE PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE. by Gonzalo, Julio A.

Table of Contents: “…1. Modern science in historical perspective -- On the origins of modern science -- The post-Renaissance revolution : the New Science -- Frank Sherwood Taylor : the man who was converted by Galileo -- The limits of science -- Proofs and demonstrations -- On the intelligibility of Quantum Mechanics -- Uncertainty, incompleteness, chance, and design -- A Finite, Open and Contingent Universe -- 2. …”
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The twentieth-century Spanish American novel / 20th century Spanish American novel by Williams, Raymond L.

Table of Contents: “…The literary tradition and modern science, 1900-1921 -- Traditional and modernist aesthetics, 1922-1940 -- The rise of the modernist novel, 1941-1961 -- Modern and cosmopolitan works, 1962-1967 -- Toward a postboom, feminist, and postmodern novel, 1968-1999.…”
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The twentieth-century Spanish American novel / 20th century Spanish American novel by Williams, Raymond L.

Table of Contents: “…The literary tradition and modern science, 1900-1921 -- Traditional and modernist aesthetics, 1922-1940 -- The rise of the modernist novel, 1941-1961 -- Modern and cosmopolitan works, 1962-1967 -- Toward a postboom, feminist, and postmodern novel, 1968-1999.…”
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Basic writings from Being and time (1927) to The task of thinking (1964) by Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976

Table of Contents: “…--Letter on humanism.--Modern science, metaphysics, and mathematics.--The question concerning technology.…”

Science in society : an introduction to social studies of science by Bucchi, Massimiano, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The development of modern science and the birth of the sociology of science -- Paradigms and styles of thought: a 'social window' on science? …”
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The fugitive by Pierson, David, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Individualism -- Love and marriage -- Culture of professionalism -- Modern science and technology -- Social justice and authority -- The legacy of the fugitive. …”
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Unlocking divine action : contemporary science & Thomas Aquinas by Dodds, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…Causality in Aquinas -- Causality locked and unlocked in empirical science -- Locking divine action in modern science -- Unlocking divine action through the new theories of contemporary science -- Unlocking divine action through the new causality of contemporary science -- Divine action and the causality of creatures -- Providence, prayer, and miracles.…”
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Traditional Islamic environmentalism : the vision of Seyyed Hossein Nasr by Quadir, Tarik M.

Table of Contents: “…A historical overview of the philosophical roots of the environmental crisis -- The perennial principles and the metaphysics of nature within Islam -- Metaphysics, sufism, and Islamic ethics -- The advent of scientific progressivism and the marginalization of sufism -- The perennial principles and the traditional Islamic sciences -- Nasr's critique of modern science and scientism -- Technology is not value-neutral -- Towards an Islamic science.…”
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Eros and Inwardness in Vienna : Weininger, Musil, Doderer. by Luft, David S.

Table of Contents: “…Liberal Vienna -- Scientific materialism -- Philosophical irrationalism -- Thinking about sexuality and gender -- Gender and character -- Gender and method -- Gender and ethics -- Gender and modernity -- Science and the writer -- Sexuality and ethics -- Ideology and soul -- Gender and the other condition -- The war and the writer -- The novel and national socialism -- Eros and apperception : 1938-1955 -- Ideology and the novel.…”
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Stages of thought : the co-evolution of religious thought and science by Barnes, Michael Horace

Table of Contents: “…Culture and cognition -- Addressing the critics -- Cognitive styles in primitive cultures -- Archaic thought, preliterate and literate -- The Axial Age and the classical style of thought -- Philosophy, religion, and science in Western antiquity -- The decline and recovery of classical rationality in the West -- Early modern models of reality in science and religion -- The method of modern empirical science -- Religious responses to modern science.…”
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What is Science?: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. by Jaffe, Klaus

Table of Contents: “…The Ascent of Empirical Science; Chapter Three. Modern Science; Chapter Four. What Science is Not; Chapter Five. …”
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Species : a history of the idea by Wilkins, John S., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- The classical era: science by division -- The medieval bridge -- Species and the birth of modern science -- The early nineteenth century: a period of change -- Darwin and the Darwinians -- The species problem arises -- The synthesis and species -- Modern debates -- Reproductive isolation concepts -- Evolutionary species concepts -- Phylogenetic species concepts -- Other species concepts -- Historical summary and conclusions.…”
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In the shadow of progress : being human in the age of technology by Cohen, Eric, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Science and the human prospect -- The spirit of modern science -- The human difference -- Part II: The ethics of progress -- Bioethics in wartime -- The embryo question -- Our genetic condition -- The commerce of the body -- A Jewish-Catholic bioethics? …”
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Norbert M. Samuelson : reasoned faith

Table of Contents: “…Samuelson -- The challenges of the modern sciences for Jewish faith / Norbert M. Samuelson -- Interview with Norbert M. …”
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Higher speculations : grand theories and failed revolutions in physics and cosmology by Kragh, Helge, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Cases from the past. Beginnings of modern science ; A Victorian theory of everything ; Electrodynamics as a world view ; Rationalist cosmologies ; Cosmology and controversy ; The rise and fall of the Bootstrap Programme -- The present scene. …”
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Hutton's arse : 3 billion years of extraordinary geology in Scotland's Northern Highlands by Martin, Rider, Peter, Harrison

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Science in democracy : expertise, institutions, and representation by Brown, Mark B.

Table of Contents: “…Modern politics and the mirror of nature -- Niccolò Machiavelli and the popular politics of expertise -- Power and publicity in modern science -- Consent and competence in representative government -- Liberal rationalism and government advisory committees -- Democratizing representation in science and politics -- Thomas Hobbes and the authorization of science -- John Dewey and the reconstruction of representation -- Bruno Latour and the symmetries of science and politics -- How science becomes political -- Elements of democratic representation -- Institutionalizing democratic representation.…”
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The heart of Buddhist philosophy by Jacobson, Nolan Pliny

Table of Contents: “…The Religion of Analysis and the Spirit of Modern Science; 7. The Civilization of Experience; Notes; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index; Author Bio; Back Cover.…”
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The Hebrew impact on western civilization

Table of Contents: “…Katsh; The Jew in Modern Science: A. A. Roback; The Influence of the Jew on Modern Medicine: Solomon R. …”
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Gadamer's ethics of play : hermeneutics and the other by Vilhauer, Monica

Table of Contents: “…Facing the inadequate model of modern science -- Introducing the key of play -- Understanding art : the play of work and spectator -- The play of interlocutors : understanding as dialogue -- The ethical conditions of dialogic play : between I and thou -- Genuine play in action : the model of the philosopher -- The value of genuine play : transition to play as a guide to life -- Play and practical philosophy : play as a guide to life -- The problem of closedness -- Cultivating an opening to dialogue.…”
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Texts of power : emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations and Tables; Preface; 1 The Disciplines in Colonial Bengal; 2 Disciplining the Printed Text: Colonial and Nationalist Surveillance of Bengali Literature; 3 Recovering the Nation's Art; 4 A Modern Science of Politics for the Colonized; 5 Sons of the Nation: Child Rearing in the New Family; 6 A City Away from Home: The Mapping of Calcutta; 7 Territory and People: The Disciplining of Historical Memory; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.…”
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Texts of power : emerging disciplines in colonial Bengal

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations and Tables; Preface; 1 The Disciplines in Colonial Bengal; 2 Disciplining the Printed Text: Colonial and Nationalist Surveillance of Bengali Literature; 3 Recovering the Nation's Art; 4 A Modern Science of Politics for the Colonized; 5 Sons of the Nation: Child Rearing in the New Family; 6 A City Away from Home: The Mapping of Calcutta; 7 Territory and People: The Disciplining of Historical Memory; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.…”
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Reforming Capitalism : the Scientific Worldview and Business. by Buchholz, Rogene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The traditional scientific worldview -- The rise of modern science and its characteristics -- Values and ethics -- Economics -- Politics -- Culture -- Nature -- Toward a new understanding of science -- The pragmatic view of science and its characteristics -- Pragmatism and values -- Pragmatism and economics -- Pragmatism and politics -- Pragmatism and culture -- Pragmatism and nature -- Implications for business -- The corporation and community -- Business and science -- Financial armageddon -- Management and an ethic of service -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index.…”
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The future of reason, science and faith : following modernity and post-modernity by Kirk, J. Andrew

Table of Contents: “…An enigma and an idea -- An enquiry into the origins of modern science -- The turn to rationalism : justification by reason alone? …”
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The war on science : who's waging it, why it matters, what we can do about it by Otto, Shawn Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…The war on science -- The politics of science -- The history of modern science politics. Religion, meet science -- Science, meet freedom -- Gimme shelter -- Science, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- The rise of the antiscience news media -- The three-front war on science. …”
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A theology for the earth : the contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan by Dalton, Anne Marie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE -- THE METHOD AND TRADITION OF BERRY'S CULTURAL HISTORY; CHAPTER TWO -- THE INFLUENCE OF WORLD RELIGIONS; CHAPTER THREE -- INTERACTION WITH THE THOUGHT OF TEILHARD DE CHARDIN; CHAPTER FOUR -- THE INFLUENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE; CHAPTER FIVE -- BERRY'S PROPOSAL FOR THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS; CHAPTER SIX -- BERNARD LONERGAN AND EMERGENT PROBABILITY; CHAPTER SEVEN -- A THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BERRY'S PROPOSAL; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography -- Works Cited; INDEX.…”
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Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction by Broderick, Damien

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. Modern science fiction. 1. New World, New Texts. 2. Generic Engineering. 3. …”
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Theology and Modern Physics. by Hodgson, Peter E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Theology, Philosophy and Physics; 2 The Judeo-Christian Contribution to the Development of Modern Science; 3 The Muslim Centuries; 4 The Renaissance; 5 Classical Physics; 6 Space, Time and Relativity; 7 Quantum Theory; 8 Quantum Mechanics; 9 Deterministic Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics; 10 Cosmology; 11 Chaos and Symmetry; 12 Science and Non-Christian Religions; 13 Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index.…”
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The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art.

Table of Contents: “…The Rise of Chance in Modern Sciences; Chao ab ordo; Modern sciences; Summary; Part I; 2. …”
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Sciences from below : feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities by Harding, Sandra G.

Table of Contents: “…-- Problems with modernity's science and politics -- Modernity's misleading dream -- The incomplete first modernity of industrial society -- Co-evolving science and society -- Views from (Western) modernity's peripheries -- Women as subjects of history and knowledge -- Postcolonial science and technology studies : are there multiple sciences? …”