Equations lie at the heart of many of the most extraordinarily successful scientific theories. Here, some of the greatest living scientists unpack the best known equations so that they become understandable, and we are entertained and enlightened by a knowledge of how it was arrived at, what it can do and what remains to be understood about it.

格雷厄姆·法米罗，伦敦科学博物馆科学传播主任。

赫伯特·巴特菲尔德，英国著名历史学家，基督教思想家，剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授，20世纪“剑桥学派”的代表人物。主要著作有《历史的辉格解释》《基督教与历史》《现代科学的起源》等。 张卜天，1979年生，中国科技大学物理学学士，北京大学科技哲学博士，现为中国科学院大学哲学系副教授。研究方向为西方中世纪和近代早期科学思想史。著有《质的量化与运动的量化——14世纪经院自然哲学的运动学初探》，“机械论的起源、演变及其问题研究”课题获得2011年国家社会科学基金青年项目资助。主编“科学源流译丛”“科学史译丛”。主要译有《大问题——简明哲学导论》《韦洛克拉丁语教程》《世界图景的机械化》《现代性的神学起源》《科学革命的编史学研究》等30余部著作。

Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history. Was Nobel laureate Richard Feynman really joking when he called Maxwell's electromagnetic equations the most significant event of the nineteenth century? How did Newton's law of gravitation influence young revolutionaries? Why has Euler's formula been call...(展开全部)

Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically ordered case studies of knowledge construction in bot...(展开全部)

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and...(展开全部)

Between the late Renaissance and the early nineteenth century, the ancient arts of architecture were being profoundly transformed by the scientific revolution. This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and t...(展开全部)

The 67 chapters of this book describe and analyse the development of Western science from 1500 to the present day. Divided into two major sections - 'The Study of the History of Science' and 'Selected Writings in the History of Science' - the volume describes the methods and problems of research in the field and then applies these techniques to a wide range of fields. Areas cov...(展开全部)