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Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: How Science and Technique Work? [PDF]
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2014 This paper is divided into two parts, this being the first one. The second is entitled ‘Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around Renaissance: Machines, Machineries and Perpetual Motion’ and will be published in Acta
Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti
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Antik Mısır’dan Orta Çağ İslam Dünyası’na Kısa Matematik Tarihi
Üniversite Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Matematiğin kökenlerinin ne olduğu matematik felsefecileri ve matematik tarihçilerinin ortak araştırma konusudur. İlk gelişen matematiksel konseptin sayı sayma olgusu olduğu düşünülmektedir.
İrem Aslan Seyhan
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Studies on Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci
Reti Medievali Rivista, 2013 A group of research working at the University of Naples Federico II aim to achieve the goal to offer a modern scientific and widely accessible edition of Fibonacci’s treatise.
Giuseppe Germano (ed.)
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The body in Renaissance arithmetic: from mnemonics to embodied cognition [PDF]
, 2010 In Medieval and Renaissance arithmetic we find several instances of references to body parts or actions involving body parts. In this paper we will address the question on the historical functions of body parts in mathematics and discuss its relation to ...
Heeffer, Albrecht
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Processes of change in academia – the impact of government and market [PDF]
, 2018 W tekście podjęto problematykę związaną z rozwojem uniwersytetów i szkolnictwa wyższego w wymiarze globalnym i na przykładzie Polski. Dla zobrazowania podjętego problemu skupiono się na: (1) idei autonomii i elitaryzmu uczelni w perspektywie historycznej
Rosicki, Remigiusz
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Longer‐term perspectives—equivalent to the lifespans of long‐lived trees—are required to fully inform perceptions of ‘naturalness’ used in woodland conservation and management. Stand‐scale dynamics of an old growth temperate woodland are reconstructed using palaeoecological data.
Annabel Everard +4 more
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Science by Conceptual Analysis: The Genius of the Late Scholastics [PDF]
, 2012 The late scholastics, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, contributed to many fields of knowledge other than philosophy. They developed a method of conceptual analysis that was very productive in those disciplines in which theory is ...
Franklin, James
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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L’infini, les textes, les gens
MethodosThe article describes Jean Celeyrette in several institutional or epistemic contexts: linked to a certain moment in mathematics, or linked to a medieval subject of study that lies between mathematical physics and post-Aristotelian theology.
Jean-Michel Salanskis
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