Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context

Author: Dwight Atkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135691762

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Describes changing language & rhetoric of English-speaking scientists across the 17th-20th centuries. Of interest to scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, & applied linguistics, as well as historians, sociolinguists, and education researchers

A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field

Author: James C. Maxwell

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 1996-12-03

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1579100155

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"We owe Clerk Maxwell the precise formulation of the space-time laws of electromagnetic fields. Imagine his own feelings when the partial differential equations he formulated spread in the form of polarized waves with the speed of light! This change in the understanding of the structure of reality is the most profound and fruitful that has come to physics since Newton."--Albert Einstein

The Royal Society
The Royal Society

Author: Adrian Tinniswood

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 154167376X

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An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published the world's first science journal, and has counted scientific luminaries from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking among its members. However, the road to truth was often bumpy. In its early years-while bickering, hounding its members for dues, and failing to create its own museum-members also performed sheep to human blood transfusions, and experimented with unicorn horns. In his characteristically accessible and lively style, Adrian Tinniswood charts the Society's evolution from poisoning puppies to the discovery of DNA, and reminds us of the increasing relevance of its motto for the modern world: Nullius in Verba-Take no one's word for it.