Extending ourselves : computational science, empiricism, and scientific method
Printed book - Humphreys Paul, 2004
Computational methods such as computer simulations, Monte Carlo methods, and agent-based modeling have become the dominant techniques in many areas of science. Extendin...
Defending Copernicus and Galileo : critical reasoning in the two affairs
Printed book - Finocchiaro Maurice A., cop. 2010
Although recent works on Galileo’s trial have reached new heights of erudition, documentation, and sophistication, they often exhibit inflated complexities, neglect 400...
Un corps à construire : tonus, posture, spatialité, temporalité
Printed book - Lesage Benoît, Auguste Laurence, Molina Lise, Muñoz Céline, Canchy-Giromini Françoise, 2021
Le corps est une construction, physique autant que psychique. Celle-ci peut être déficiente, inachevée, mise à mal par des circonstances diverses (traumatisme, maladie…...
The apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal : science, history and religion at classic Maya Palenque
Printed book - Aldana Gerardo Villalobos, cop. 2007
The Apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal takes up anew the riddles within a number of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions first recognized by Floyd Lounsbury. Gerardo Aldana unpacks ...
L'atome, chimère ou réalité ? : débats et combats dans la chimie du XIXe siècle
Printed book - Lécaille Claude, impr. 2009
Le rêve de Lavoisier préfigure la mise en évidence des lois régissant la réaction chimique. Mais, avec l'hypothèse atomique formulée en 1808 par John Dalton, c'est une ...
One hundred years of axiomatic set theory
Printed book - Hinnion Roland, Libert Thierry, 2010
In response to the paradoxes of naive set theory, axiomatic foundations for set theory and mathematics were proposed in 1908 in the following two papers: - E. Zermelo, ...