The remarkable story of how timekeeping became a global affair - and how standard time almost didn’t happen. Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly inter...(展开全部)

理查德•韦斯特福尔，美国著名科学史家，获耶鲁大学哲学博士学位。任印第安纳大学科学史和科学哲学史系教授，曾担任美国科学史学会会长。当选为美国艺术和科学学院院士和英国皇家文学学会会员。1985年，获美国科学史学会授予科学史工作者的最高荣誉--萨顿奖。著有：《17世纪英格兰的科学和宗教》、《近代科学的构建：机械论和力学》、《牛顿物理学中的力：17世纪的动力科学》、《永不止息——伊萨克.牛顿传》。 译者简介： 张卜天，中国科技大学物理学学士，北京大学科技哲学博士，清华大学科学史系教授，研究方向为西方中世纪和近代科学思想史。精通科学史、科学普及与哲学翻译，译有著作近五十部。其译文优美流畅，广受读者好评。

This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the conviction that the cosmos was constructed according to the principles of mathematical order, while the mechanical philosophy conc...(展开全部)

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication in the world...(展开全部)

The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication in the world...(展开全部)

This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the number of factors - social, technological, conceptual and natural - that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge...(展开全部)

This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production of scientific knowledge. The author presents an approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the number of factors - social, technological, conceptual and natural - that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge...(展开全部)

Continuing the new look unabridged Poirot titles, read by Hugh Fraser. As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly rem...(展开全部)

The Left Hand of DarknessSutty， an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen， has been assigned to a new world-a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state， the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future， the Akans recently outlawed the past， the old calligraphy， certain words， all an...(展开全部)

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written...(展开全部)