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Jaeger, Lars |
The Stumbling Progress of 20th Century Science |
I12209 |
2022 |
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Aguirre, Anthony |
How Should Humanity Steer the Future? |
I10300 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Minier, Vincent |
Inventing a Space Mission |
I09663 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Nahin, Paul J |
Holy Sci-Fi! |
I07995 |
2014 |
eBook |
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Buchwald, Jed Z |
Wrong for the Right Reasons |
I06902 |
2005 |
eBook |
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Magarshak, Yuri |
Silicon Versus Carbon |
I06084 |
2009 |
eBook |
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Dator, James A |
Social Foundations of Human Space Exploration |
I05700 |
2012 |
eBook |
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| Title | The Stumbling Progress of 20th Century Science : How Crises and Great Minds Have Shaped Our Modern World |
| Author(s) | Jaeger, Lars |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XIV, 251 p. 7 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The 70 years from 1880 to 1950 witnessed the final ascent of humankind into the modern age. Historically, this period is characterized by deep political, social and economic crises. However, parallel to this and much less known in the public, rational scientific thinking also experienced the darkest and deepest crisis of its own history. All the great modern scientific discoveries like quantum theory, genetics and neurology are products of this. Ground-breaking discoveries, profound crises, revolutionary thoughts, refutation of previously unshakable beliefs - these years are marked by scientific achievements of numerous great minds, who overturned our understanding of the world, of space, time and infinity, of life, logic and calculability almost overnight. The "intuitive genius" of these pioneers still forms the foundation of today???s scientific thinking and technological progress. In fact, tackling and overcoming those deep scientific crises shaped our modern life like nothing else. The resulting reorientation of our understanding of nature and ourselves allowed ancient philosophical questions to appear in a new light: "What is reality?", "What can we know about the world?" or "What is man's place in nature?". The most exciting period in the history of science is retold here in an entertaining way |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031096181 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomers???Biography
2. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
6. Philosophy of Technology
7. Physicists???Biography
8. Science, Technology and Society
9. Science???History
10. Technology???Philosophy
11. Technology???Sociological aspects
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| Title | How Should Humanity Steer the Future? |
| Author(s) | Aguirre, Anthony;Foster, Brendan;Merali, Zeeya |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | VIII, 175 p. 14 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial??topics that could decisively influence the course of human life on Earth.??Their??authors address, in accessible language,??issues as diverse as:??enabling our social systems to learn; research in biological??engineering and artificial intelligence; mending and??enhancing minds; improving the way we do, and teach, science; living in the??here and now; and the value of play. ?? The essays are enhanced versions of the prize-winning entries submitted to the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) essay competition in 2014. FQXi, catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319207179 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. EDUCATION
4. PHILOSOPHY
5. Philosophy of Technology
6. Popular Science in Education
7. Science???Social aspects
8. Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education
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| Title | Inventing a Space Mission : The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory |
| Author(s) | Minier, Vincent;Bonnet, Roger-Maurice;Bontems, Vincent;de Graauw, Thijs;Griffin, Matt;Helmich, Frank;Pilbratt, G??ran;Volonte, Sergio |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XII, 280 p. 91 illus., 69 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book describes prominent technological achievements within a very successful space science mission: the Herschel space observatory. Focusing on the various processes of innovation it offers an analysis and discussion of the social, technological and scientific context of the mission that paved the way to its development. It addresses the key question raised by these processes in our modern society, i.e.: how knowledge management of innovation set the conditions for inventing the future? In that respect the book is based on a transdisciplinary analysis of the programmatic complexity of Herschel, with inputs from space scientists, managers, philosophers, and engineers. This book is addressed to decision makers, not only in space science, but also in other industries and sciences using or building large machines. It is also addressed to space engineers and scientists as well as students in science and management |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319600246 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
5. Astronomy???Observations
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
9. Innovation/Technology Management
10. Knowledge management
11. MANAGEMENT
12. Observations, Astronomical
13. PHILOSOPHY
14. Philosophy of Technology
15. SPACE SCIENCES
16. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | Holy Sci-Fi! : Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect |
| Author(s) | Nahin, Paul J |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2014. |
| Description | XVIII, 224 p. 8 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive???Is there really such a thing as free will???If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)???For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists, and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more. In Holy Sci-Fi!, popular writer Paul Nahin explores the fertile and sometimes uneasy relationship between science fiction and religion. With a scope spanning the history of religion, philosophy, and literature, Nahin follows religious themes in science fiction from Feynman to Foucault, and from Asimov to Aristotle. An intriguing journey through popular and well-loved books and stories, Holy Sci-Fi! shows how sci-fi has informed humanity's attitudes towards our faiths, our future, and ourselves |
| ISBN,Price | 9781493906185 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
4. PHILOSOPHY
5. Philosophy and science
6. Philosophy of Religion
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. Philosophy of Technology
9. PHYSICS
10. Popular Science, general
11. Popular works
12. Religion???Philosophy
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| Title | Wrong for the Right Reasons |
| Author(s) | Buchwald, Jed Z;Franklin, A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2005. |
| Description | VIII, 230 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 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 substance transferred from hot to cold bodies. But is wrong science always or even usually bad science? The essays in this volume argue by example that much of the past's rejected science, wrong in retrospect though it may be - and sometimes markedly so - was nevertheless sound and exemplary of enduring standards that transcend the particularities of culture and locale |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402030482 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. Observations, Astronomical
7. PHILOSOPHY
8. Philosophy of Technology
9. PHYSICS
10. Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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| Title | Silicon Versus Carbon : Fundamental Nanoprocesses, Nanobiotechnology and Risks Assessment |
| Author(s) | Magarshak, Yuri;Kozyrev, Sergey;Vaseashta, Ashok K |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2009. |
| Description | XIV, 416 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Even though there is no generally accepted definition of nanotechnologies to be defined as distinct discipline there is an emerging consensus that their advent and development is a growing in importance factor of the contemporary and future technological civilization. One of these most fundamental issues we are confronted with is the compatibility with life itself. From single cell organisms to humans, carbon is a key building block of all molecular structures of life. In contrast the man created electronic industry to build on other elements, of which silicon is the most common. Both carbon and silicon create molecular chains, although different in their internal structure. All life is built from carbon-based chains. As long as the man built technological products do not directly interfere with the physiology of life the associated risks from them are relatively easy to identify. They are primarily in the environmental pollution and the possibility of upsetting the natural balance of biocoenosis, on a planetary scale. The basic life functions are still not directly subverted. We can use TV, computers, drive cars and use other technological utilities without fear of direct interference with our cellular functions. This is in particular because all these technological utilities are many orders of magnitude larger than typical scales of biological activity. Most of biological activity, from fermentative catalysis to DNA replication takes place on nanoscale. The situation is radically different when the technological goals are building nanoscale size products. All biological processes take place on nanoscale |
| ISBN,Price | 9789048125234 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biochemical engineering
2. Biotechnology
3. Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Nanochemistry
7. PHILOSOPHY
8. Philosophy of Technology
9. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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