"Objects of Understanding" brings together studies of artifacts, collections, and practices in science education from the early 18th century to contemporary times. Even though science education plays a crucial role in the formation, stabilisation, dissemination, transfer and transformation of scientific knowledge and practices, its history remains still an underexplored topic.

Uploaded June 2025

The volume explores Nicolaus Copernicus's cultural legacy, spanning from the 16th century to the commemorative events of 2023. It innovatively examines the reception of Copernicus's research and ideas, tracing his cultural impact across various historical epochs. Contributions within delve into the scientific reception of his theories as well as diverse forms of cultural remembrance, including monuments and commemorations, political memory, visual arts, iconography, street names, postage stamps, and tourism promotion.

Uploaded June 2025

Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female scientist would have been regarded as something of an oxymoron.

Uploaded June 2025

This book addresses the problems involved in cross-cultural comparisons in science education by drawing on past studies investigating cultural differences. In addition, teaching practices and student learning outcomes will be examined while taking into account different concepts of quality teaching and the impact of cultural characteristics on science education.

Uploaded June 2025

The class of rough collision laws is quite large and includes random elements. Our main results characterize the rough collision laws for a freely moving rough disk and a fixed rough wall in dimension 2. Any collision law which (i) is symmetric with respect to a certain well-known invariant measure from billiards theory, and (ii) conserves the projection of the phase space velocity onto the “rolling velocity” is a rough collision law.

Uploaded April 2025

Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science puts a human face to scientific inquiry in the Elizabethan and Jacobean worlds, and at long last gives proper due to the life and times of one of history's most remarkable minds.

Uploaded March 2025

This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences.

Uploaded March 2025

On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.

Uploaded March 2025

Drawing on vivid accounts from bioscientists who experienced and enacted the shift toward commercialization, the book offers an insider's view into the way scientists navigate the complex and shifting landscape of science, innovation, and economic policy.

Uploaded January 2025

A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence.

Uploaded October 2024