Travels of Learning

Travels of Learning
Author: Ana Simões
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401735840

This volume offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological traveling and takes the viewpoint of the European peripheries, including case studies of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. It contributes to the clarification of mechanisms of appropriation of scientific ideas, instruments, practices and of technological expertise. It is of interest to scholars and students of history and philosophy of science and technology, cultural and social history, science, technology and society studies.

The Lost Elements

The Lost Elements
Author: Marco Fontani
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2015
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0199383340

The story of the false entries, good-faith errors, retractions, and mistakes that occurred during the formation of the Periodic Table of Elements as we know it.