Dutch Pioneers of the Earth Sciences
Author: Jacques L. R. Touret
Publisher: Edita-The Publishing House of the Royal
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 222
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Dutch Pioneers of Science
Author: Leo Beek
Publisher: Assen, Netherlands : Van Gorcum
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 192
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Author: Joop W. Koopmans
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2007-05-22
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0810864444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Netherlands, frequently but erroneously called Holland, is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. In the past few decades, it has been undergoing many transformations made possible by its dynamic and fast-moving political landscape. It has shifted from fierce nationalism toward a self-image of tolerance and permissiveness: the national identity and self-consciousness has slowly eroded through decolonization and immigration. Unfortunately, several murders of prominent, controversial politicians have started yet another shift away from tolerance, and economic stagnation has bred pessimism. Nonetheless, despite many trials and tribulations, there has been real progress, and the Dutch have perhaps done a better job of coming to terms with their limitations than many others in the world. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands contains more than 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual topics spanning the Netherlands' political, economic, and social system along with short biographies on important figures who have shaped the Netherlands' history. Supplementing the entries are a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and a bibliography, making this a superb quick reference on the Netherlands.
The Origins of the Telescope
Author: Albert Van Helden
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9069846152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe origins of the telescope have been discussed and debated since shortly after the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride have led local dignitaries, popular writers, and numerous scholars to search the archives and to construct sharply divergent histories. Did the honor of the invention belong to the Dutch, to the Italians, to the English, or to the Spanish? And if the city of Middelburg in the Netherlands was, in fact, the cradle of the instrument, was the "true inventor" Hans Lipperhey or his rival Zacharias Jansen? Or was the instrument there before anyone knew it? Over the past several decades, a group of historians and scientists have sought out new documents, re-examined familiar ones, and tested early lenses and telescopes. This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Middelburg in September 2008 to mark 400 years of the telescope. The essays in it, taken as a whole, present a new and convincing account of the origins of the instrument that changed mankind's vision of the universe.
Building Blocks
Author: Jose Muñoz Alvis
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2020-05-31
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 383944781X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilding blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings? This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the genealogy of building blocks from Fröbel's »gifts« to their current systematization as interlocked blocks, this study proposes that building blocks should be understood not exclusively as concrete objects, but as the materiality of a combinatorial program, which delineates a modular system characterized by a code of composition, a context-neutrality and a semantic component.
The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering
Author: John H. Cushman
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 1092
ISBN-13: 1498703054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new edition adds several new chapters and is thoroughly updated to include data on new topics such as hydraulic fracturing, CO2 sequestration, sustainable groundwater management, and more. Providing a complete treatment of the theory and practice of groundwater engineering, this new handbook also presents a current and detailed review of how to model the flow of water and the transport of contaminants both in the unsaturated and saturated zones, covers the protection of groundwater, and the remediation of contaminated groundwater.
Introduction to Physical Hydrology
Author: Martin Hendriks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-01-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0199296847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to Physical Hydrology explores the principal rules that govern the flow of water by considering the four major types of water: atmospheric, ground, soil, and surface. It gives insights into the major hydrological processes, and shows how the principles of physical hydrology inform our understanding of climate and global hydrology.
Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians
Author: Richard Moody
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781862393110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous fossil hunters and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world. They cover a long time span, from the beginnings of modern scientific palaeontology in the 1700s to the present, and deal with many parts of the world, from the Yorkshire coast to Central India, from Bavaria to the Sahara. The characters in these stories include professional palaeontologists and geologists (some of them well-known, others quite obscure), explorers, amateur fossil collectors, and artists, linked together by their interest in Mesozoic creatures.
Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911
Author: Jan Albert Bakker
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9088900345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Introduction, a brief general review is given of the present knowledge and ideas about the Hunebed Builders, who lived some 5000 years ago during the Stone Age.
