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Science and the human temperament Erwin Schrödinger · 1935 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Addresses, Essays, Science, Philosophy with this book.
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The common sense of science Jacob Bronowski · 1951 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable. Shares Science, Philosophy, History
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Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Essays, Philosophy with this book.
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Fragments of science John Tyndall · 1879 · 589p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Addresses, Science with this book.
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Decline of Science in England Charles Babbage · 1830 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging xvi, 228 p. 22 cm Shares Science, History
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Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Essays, Science, Philosophy with this book.
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Short studies on great subjects James Anthony Froude · 1867 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Theology, Essays, Philosophy, History with this book.
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The Fabric of the Cosmos Brian Greene · 2004 · ★ 4.3 · 582p · ≈ 19h · Moderate A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended' the Independent'(Greene) send(s) the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride. As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator' the New York… Shares Kosmologie, Cosmology, Science
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My Philosophical Development Bertrand Russell · 1959 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Russell gives an account of his philosophical development. He describes his Hegelian period and includes hitherto unpublished notes for a Hegelian philosophy of science. He deals next with the two-fold revolution involved with his abandonment of idealism and adoption of a mathematical logic founded upon that of Giuseppe Peano. After two chapters on Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), he passes to… Shares Filosofie, Philosophy
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La valeur de la science Henri Poincaré · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 152p · ≈ 5h · Moderate La recherche de la verite doit etre le but de notre activite ; c'est la seule fin qui soit digne d'elle. Sans doute nous devons d'abord nous efforcer de soulager les souffrances humaines, mais pourquoi ? Shares Filosofie, Essays, Science, Philosophy
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Principia philosophiae René Descartes · 1644 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Naturwissenschaften, Science, Philosophy with this book.
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Longitude Dava Sobel · 1995 · ★ 4.3 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude,… Shares Science, History
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Reason & violence R. D. Laing · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Addresses, Essays, Philosophy with this book.
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The fundamental questions of philosophy Ewing, A. C. · 1951 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Filosofie, Essays, Philosophy with this book.
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The Universe Isaac Asimov · 1966 · ★ 4.0 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A readable introduction to scientific facts about the earth, the solar system, and the universe. Shares Cosmology, Science, History
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De caelo Aristotle · 1545 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Cosmology, Science, Philosophy with this book.
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Women, Science and Technology Mary Wyer · 2000 · 623p · ≈ 20h · Moderate "Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies. This third edition fully updates its predecessor with a new introduction and twenty-eight new readings that explore social constructions mediated by technologies, expand the scope of feminist technoscience studies, and move beyond the nature/culture paradigm."--Pub. desc. Shares Essays, Science
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Herders sämmtliche Werke Johann Gottfried Herder · 1877 · ★ 5.0 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Theology, Philosophy with this book.

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