Cosmos

Cosmos
Author: John North
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2008-07-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226594416

The definitive history of humanity's search to find its place within the universe. North charts the history of astronomy and cosmology from the Paleolithic period to the present day.

Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 792
Release: 1981
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Contains concise biographies for 5,000 scientists ranging from classical antiquity to the 1970's.

The Tables of 1322 by John of Ligneres

The Tables of 1322 by John of Ligneres
Author: JOSE. CHABAS
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2022-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9782503596099

Medieval astronomers used tables to solve most of the problems they faced. These tables were generally assembled in sets, which constituted genuine tool-boxes aimed at facilitating the task of practitioners of astronomy. In the early fourteenth century, the set of tables compiled by the astronomers at the service of King Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (d. 1284), reached Paris, where several scholars linked to the university recast them and generated new tables. John of Ligneres, one of the earliest Alfonsine astronomers, assembled his own set of astronomical tables, mainly building on the work of previous Muslim and Jewish astronomers in the Iberian Peninsula, especially in Toledo. Two major sets had been compiled in this town: one in Arabic, the Toledan Tables, during the second half of the eleventh century and the Castilian Alfonsine Tables, under the patronage of King Alfonso. This monograph provides for the first time an edition of the Tables of 1322 by John of Ligneres for the first time. It is the earliest major set of astronomical tables to be compiled in Latin astronomy. It was widely distributed and is found in about fifty manuscripts. A great number of the tables were borrowed directly from the work of the Toledan astronomers, while others were adapted to the meridian of Paris, and many were later transferred to the standard version of the Parisian Alfonsine Tables. Therefore, John of Ligneres' set can be considered as an intermediary work between the Toledan Tables and the Parisian Alfonsine Tables.

Equatorie of Planetis

Equatorie of Planetis
Author: Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1107404274

This 1955 book investigates the origins of The Equatorie of the Planetis, a fourteenth-century manuscript in the library of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Pre-Menopause, Menopause and Beyond

Pre-Menopause, Menopause and Beyond
Author: Martin Birkhaeuser
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319635409

This volume represents an up-to-date overview on pre-Menopause and Menopause, with their respective clinical implications and therapies. The aim is to clarify possible doubts and clinical approaches to this particular period in a woman’s life and how to face it, both offering solutions to actual problems and focusing on the potential impact of preventive medicine in improving women’s health and quality of life. The volume is published within the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology (ISGE) Series, and is based on the 2017 International School of Gynecological and Reproductive Endocrinology Winter Course. This book, covering a very wide range of topics with particular focus on fertility in pre- and peri-menopausal women, climacteric and menopausal symptoms, impact of PCOS on post-menopausal health, breast disease, surgical treatments and therapies, will be an invaluable tool for gynecologists, endocrinologists, and experts in women’s health.

Reproductive Medicine for Clinical Practice

Reproductive Medicine for Clinical Practice
Author: Joseph G. Schenker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-09-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 3319780093

This first volume of the series of the International Academy of Human Reproduction focuses on new aspects of reproductive medicine, from the professional responsibility model of ethics to the areas of high clinical involvement in human reproduction, such as endometriosis, polycystic ovary, family planning and post-coital contraception. The book discusses fertility and assisted reproductive techniques in the context of genetics and epigenetics as well as psychosomatic and longevity aspects. In addition, it presents new technologies and therapeutic strategies to improve IVF results and prevent ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, as well the new challenges and the future of imaging in reproduction. Menopause and the effects of estrogens on atero-prevention, mood, and more generally the reproductive hormones impact on dementia and healthy aging are also covered. Further, it includes a section devoted to innovative aspects of gynecological surgery, discussing the treatments of vaginal aplasia, reproductive microsurgery and technological breakthroughs in pelvic organ prolapse surgery. Last, but not least, it examines the syndromic aspects of preterm birth. This volume is a useful and comprehensive tool for gynecologists, obstetricians, endocrinologists and all specialists who deal with women’s reproductive health.