Book Review: Influence: Science and Practice

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Book Review Elizabethan London and Scientific Practice

The jewel house is a nuanced analysis of the community of gardeners, instrument makers, engineers, alchemists and mathematics teachers in Elizabethan London whose empirical practices, Harkness argues, ‘set the stage for the Scientific Revolution’ via the practice of what she terms vernacular ‘science’. Although her employment of the term ‘science’ may seem an anachronism, she demonstrates that ...

Book Review: Biophilic design: The theory, science and practice of bringing buildings to life.

Well, someone can decide by themselves what they want to do and need to do but sometimes, that kind of person will need some biophilic design the theory science and practice of bringing buildings to life references. People with open minded will always try to seek for the new things and information from many sources. On the contrary, people with closed mind will always think that they can do it ...

Book Review: Another Science Is Possible

Book Review: A New Kind of Science

“Somebody says, ‘You know, you people always say that space is continuous. How do you know when you get to a small enough dimension that there really are enough points in between, that it isn’t just a lot of dots separated by little distances?’ Or they say, ‘You know those quantum mechanical amplitudes you told me about, they’re so complicated and absurd, what makes you think those are right? M...