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Cover of A Textbook of General Astronomy
by Charles A. Young, Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013

1. Astronomy is the science which treats of the heavenly bodies. As such bodies we reckon the sun and moon, the planets (of which the earth is one) and their satellites, comets and meteors, and finally the stars and nebulae. We have to consider in Astronomy: (a) The motions of these bodies,...
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Introducing Science through Images

Cases of Visual Popularization

by Maria E. Gigante, Thomas W. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have...
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science

Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1961/1962

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The broad range of interdisciplinary concerns which are encompassed by the philosophy of science have this much in common: (I) they arise from reflection upon the fundamental concepts, the formal structures, and the methodology of the sciences; (2) they touch upon the characteristically philosophical...
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Kant on Proper Science

Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum

by Hein van den Berg
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

This bookprovides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant’s views on proper natural science and biology. The status of biology in Kant’s system of science is often taken to be problematic. By analyzing Kant’s philosophy of biology in relation to his conception of proper science, the present book...
Cover of Limitations of Science
by J. W. N. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018

“Limitations of Science” is a vintage treatise on the state and limitations of science in the early twentieth century. John William Navin Sullivan (1886 – 1937) was a literary journalist and popular science writer most famous for his study of Beethoven. He is also responsible for having written...
Cover of How to Believe in God and Science: In Three Easy Steps
by Joe Provenzano
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015

This book is about how I have reconciled my belief in God with the findings of modern science and other issues. I realize that many others have written books about this and I have looked at many of their approaches and solutions. Most of these books base their arguments on repackaged, old ideas. A...
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Dear Professor Dyson

Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life

by Dwight E Neuenschwander
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016

IN THE NEWSExciting News: Book Published From "Science, Technology and Society" ClassThe Echo, 3 November 2016 Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed...
Cover of 46 Science Fair Projects for the Evil Genius
by Bob Bonnet, Dan Keen
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2008

SHAKE UP YOUR SCIENCE FAIR WITH THESE CUTTING-EDGE, ATTENTION-GRABBING PROJECTS! Want to win first place in the next science fair? 46 Science Fair Projects for the Evil Genius has everything you need to create amazing, sophisticated projects that will wow the judges and keep everyone talking...
Cover of Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts
by Steven French
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016

Science has made a huge impact on human society over hundred years, but how does it work? How do scientists do the things they do? How do they come up with the theories? How do they test them? How do they use these theories to explain phenomena? How do they draw conclusions from them about how the...
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Interpreting Biomedical Science

Experiment, Evidence, and Belief

by Ülo Maiväli
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Interpreting Biomedical Science: Experiment, Evidence, and Belief discusses what can go wrong in biological science, providing an unbiased view and cohesive understanding of scientific methods, statistics, data interpretation, and scientific ethics that are illustrated with practical examples and...
Cover of A Model-Theoretic Realist Interpretation of Science
by E.B. Ruttkamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science. Within this paradigm she gives an account of sciences as process and product. She expounds the "received statement" and the "non-statement"...
Cover of Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science
by Robin T. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017

While one would hope that forensic scientists, investigators, and experts are intrinsically ethical by nature, the reality is that these individuals have morality as varied as the general population. These professionals confront ethical dilemmas every day, some with clear-cut protocols and others...
Cover of The Law-Science Chasm: Bridging Law's Disaffection with Science as Evidence
by Cedric Charles Gilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

"THE LAW-SCIENCE CHASM" is a socio-legal study that takes seriously the varying approaches to science that physicians and scientists use, as compared to legal actors such as judges and lawyers. Offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and assumptions, Gilson uses...
Cover of Sur la science
by Simone Weil
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2016

Ce premier volume d'essais, lettres et fragments, inédits de Simone Weil, est tout entier orienté vers les mathématiques et la science.   Voici la succession des chapitres : Science et perception dans Descartes - Lettre à un camarade - Lettre à...
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