Preface. Canine Explorers in the Antarctic -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- List of Characters and Countries -- Notes on Norwegian and English Names -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Dogs, the Arctic, and Amundsen’s Clandestine Switch to the Antarctic -- Part I. The Strategic Plan, The Secret Ingredient -- Chapter 2. The Vital Importance of Sledge Dogs -- Chapter 3. Two “Eskimos” to Care for Good…
Parte 1 -- Un cifrario del XVIII secolo -- La prima macchina cifrante al mondo -- Damm, Hagelin e Gyldén -- Intercettazione di segnali radio e analisi crittografica prima del 1939 -- Guerra -- Entra in scena Arne Beurling -- La flotta russa del Baltico -- Segnali misteriosi -- Telescriventi -- L’analisi di Beurling -- La G-Schreiber e gli “app” -- Crittoanalisi sistematica -- Esce di sce…
Ch. 1 From Local to Global: The Petroleum Geologist Hans Höfer von Heimhalt between Empires, Economies, and Epistemologies -- Ch. 2 The history of oil exploration in the State of São Paulo before the foundation of Petrobras (1872-1953) -- Ch. 3 Petroleum: new energy perspectives for Brazil in 1922 -- Ch. 4 Oil and State - the role of the National Petroleum Council (CNP) in the development of …
1 The Graeco-Roman World -- 2 The Roman world from the end of the republic to the end of the empire -- 3 The Middle Ages -- 4 From the age of the great transoceanic discoveries to the new measurements of the Earth .90 -- 5 The Figure and the size of the Earth in the XVIII Century -- 6 From the French Revolution to the artificial Satellites -- Epilogue -- The concept of Geoid -- The mathematical…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. ‘Hanging Not Punishment Enough’; Attitudes to Aggravated Forms of Execution and the Making of the Murder Act 1690-1752 -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Post-Execution Sentencing in England and Wales 1752-1834. The Murder Act in Operation -- Chapter 4. Changing Attitudes to Post-Execution Punishment 1752-1834 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion -- Index.Open AccessThis bo…
Philosophy of Formal and Physical Sciences -- Demarcation of the Logical Constants and Logical Truth in Terms of Analyticity -- General Theory of Relativity and the 5th Test -- Implications of the Geometry of Quantum Mechanical Perfect Correlation Functions Concerning “Bell’s Theorem without Inequalities” -- Introductory Remarks -- Epistemological and Methodological Issues in Science -- Q…
The Changing Nature of Public Science -- The Technosciences between Markets, Social Worries and the Political: How to Imagine a Better Future? -- Comment from a Legal Perspective -- Responses of the Legal Order to the Loss of Trust in Science -- Democratizing Science: Expertise and Participation in Administrative Decision-Making -- Free Access to Research Findings and Its Limitations -- The Res…
Foreword -- The Kaiserreich: Military power and science - 'Sturdy pillars of Germany's greatness' -- Einstein's path to Berlin -- World War I -- Upshot -- Einstein in private – not quite in private -- The Weimar Republic: Boycott of German science -- World renown -- Sponsorship – the Einstein Tower -- A target for right-wing propaganda and violence -- Emissary and emigré – Einstein's for…
Introduction: A Life with a Purpose -- The Creative Person as a Whole -- The Case Study That Started It All: Charles Darwin -- Facets of the Creative Process: Insight, Point of View and Repetition -- Modalities -- Tracking The Ordinary Course of Development -- Coping with the Extraordinary -- Creativity in the Moral Domain -- Peace and Further Conditions for Human Welfare.‘Creativity, Psychol…
Grounding Mathematics Education -- Sign Processes -- Agency and Creativity in the Semiotics of Learning Mathematics -- The Semiotic Approach to Mathematical Evidence and Generalization -- Signs as Means for Discoveries -- Diagrammatic Thinking -- Notes on a Semiotically Inspired Theory of Teaching and Learning -- Mathematics, Sign and Activity -- Sign Processes in the Mathematics Classroom -- S…