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The structure of scientific revolutions / by Kuhn, Thomas S

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Bilimsel devrimlerin yapısı / by Kuhn, Thomas S

“…The structure of scientific revolutions…”
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Bilim devrimi ve modern bilimin kökenleri / by Henry, John

“…The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science…”
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Bilimin icadı : Bilim devrimi'nin yeni bir tarihi / by Wootton, David

“…The invention of science - a new history of the scientific revolution…”
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The Rise of Engineering Science How Technology Became Scientific / by Channell, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Changing Relationships between Science and Technology -- References -- Part II: The Roots of Engineering Science -- 2 The Intellectual Roots of Engineering Science -- 2.1 The Scientific Revolution - Overview -- 2.2 Roots of the Mechanical Philosophy -- 2.3 Roots of the Experimental Philosophy -- 2.4 The New Ideology of Science -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3 The Social and Economic Roots of Engineering Science -- 3.1 The Industrial Revolution - Overview -- 3.2 Iron Production -- 3.3 The Steam Engine -- 3.4 The Textile Revolution -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 The Institutional Roots of Engineering Science -- 4.1 Great Britain -- 4.2 France -- 4.3 The German States -- 4.4 The United States -- 4.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: The Rise of Engineering Science -- 5 The Emergence of Engineering Science -- 5.1 AppliedMechanics -- 5.2 Fluid Mechanics -- 5.3 Thermodynamics -- 5.4 Conclusions -- References -- 6 The Establishment of Engineering Science: The Harmony of Theory and Practice -- 6.1 Theory and Practice in Great Britain -- 6.2 Theory and Practice in the German States -- 6.3 Theory and Practice in France -- 6.4 Theory and Practice in the United States -- 6.5 Conclusions -- References -- Part IV: Engineering Science-Based Industries -- 7 New Materials -- 7.1 Steel Production -- 7.2 Steel Construction -- 7.3 Conclusions -- References -- 8 New Power Sources -- 8.1 Internal Combustion Engines -- 8.2 Conclusions -- References -- 9 New Transportation Systems -- 9.1 The Automobile Industry -- 9.2 The Aeronautics Industry -- 9.3 Conclusions -- References -- 10 New Methods of Production -- 10.1 Mass Production - Fordism -- 10.2 Scientific Management - Taylorism -- 10.3 Conclusions -- References -- Part V: Epilogue -- 11 From Engineering Science to Technoscience -- References -- Name Index. .…”
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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine A History of Production and Information Machines / by Koetsier, Teun

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The Global Intelligent Machine -- Cultural evolution -- Production technology and information technology -- 2 The Rise of Homo Sapiens -- Animals using production tools -- Monkeys and apes using production tools -- Information tools in the animal world: clues, signs and signals -- Communicating honey bees -- Communication among monkeys and apes -- From the hairpin ancestor to Homo sapiens -- Olduwan technology -- The adze makers of Langda -- Language as an information tool -- The control of fire -- The Stone Age Revolution -- Information tools -- Whistle languages -- Talking drums -- The Ishango bone -- Orientation in space, maps in the Pacific -- 3 Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires -- Economic surplus -- Agriculture -- The wheel -- Monumental architecture -- Complete writing -- Towards the alphabet -- Mathematics -- Sundials and water clocks -- 4 The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science -- The Axial Age -- The rise of abstract symbolic thought in China and India -- Oral versus written thought -- Aristotle's Logic, a New Information Tool -- Knowledge-how versus knowledge-that -- Deductive science -- The birth of the theory of machines -- The wedge and the pulleys -- Archimedes -- The invention of the screw -- Heron's Mechanics -- Combinations of simple machines -- Difficulties in understanding the wedge and the inclined plane -- 5 Machines in Classical Antiquity -- The invention of artillery -- Production machines in Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture -- The Phaistos disc -- The abacus -- Water clocks and sundials -- The Armillary Sphere -- The anaphoric clock -- The astrolabe -- The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism -- The front dial -- The upper back dial -- The pin and slot mechanism -- The hodometer -- Automata -- 6 The Middle Ages -- Marco Polo -- Textile machines -- Military technology -- Metal technology -- Movable type printing -- The hodometer and Su Sung's clock -- Automata -- Chinese influence in the West -- The Golden Age of Islamic Science -- Islamic culture, the information machines of the three Banu Musa -- Al-Jazari's production machines -- Al-Muradi -- The rise of the West -- Jordanus -- The Vision of Ramon Llull -- The invention of the printing press -- Llull's influence -- A new information machine: the mechanical clock -- 7 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution -- The impact of the printing press -- Da Vinci and the others -- Parachute, tank and machine gun -- Da Vinci as an engineer -- Da Vinci's fame -- Theaters of machines -- Exterior ballistics -- Del Monte and simple machines -- Galilei and simple machines -- The Archimedean screw pump -- Astronomy -- Galilei's Discorsi -- A remarkable Flemish engineer: Simon Stevin -- There is more -- The dream of a mathesis universalis -- Calculators -- Scepticism -- 8 The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron -- The background -- The role of the Scientific Revolution -- A macroeconomic view of the Industrial Revolution -- The Malthusian trap -- The escape -- One or more Industrial Revolutions? …”
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Advances in Social Simulation 2015

Table of Contents: “…-- Evolutionary Cooperation in a Multi-Agent Society -- Design of an empirical agent-based model to explore rural household food security within a developing country context -- Comparing Income Replacement Rate by Prefecture in Japanese Pension System -- Hybrid simulation approach for technological innovation policy making in developing countries -- Modelling Contextual Decision Making in Dilemma Games -- Preliminary results from an agent-based model of the daily commute in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, UK -- Agent-Based Modelling of Military Communications on the Roman Frontier -- The Leviathan model without gossips and vanity: the richness of influence based on perceived hierarchy -- A calibration to properly design a model integrating residential mobility and migration in a rural area -- Modeling Contagion of Behavior in Friendship Networks as Coordination Games -- A Model of Social and Economic Capital in Social Networks -- The Impact of Macro-Scale Determinants on Individual Residential Mobility Behaviour -- Modelling the energy transition: Application of Agent Based Modelling to Integrated Assessment Modelling -- A spatially explicit agent-based model of the diffusion of green electricity: Model setup and retrodictive validation -- A Network Analytic Approach to Investigating a Land-Use Change Agent-Based Model -- Network Influence Effects in Agent-Based Modelling of Civil Violence -- Modeling the evolution of ideological landscapes through opinion dynamics -- Changing Habits using Contextualized Decision Making -- SocialSIM - Real-life social simulation asa field for students´ research projects -- Simulating Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions: The Example of the Paradigm Change from System Dynamics to Agent Based Modelling -- Using ABM to clarify and refine social practice theory -- Transition to Low-carbon Economy:Simulating Nonlinearities in the Electricity Market, Navarre Region-Spain -- Statistical Verification of the Multiagent Model of Volatility Clustering on Financial Markets -- Social Amplification of Risk Framework: An Agent-Based Approach -- How precise are the specifications of a psychological theory? …”
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Biomedical Engineering: Frontier Research and Converging Technologies

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