This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern...

In a remarkably concise compass, the author presents, through actual examples, the fascinating story of how philosophers and scientists through the ages have tried to understand how things move. He also includes selections from the...

Prize-winning study traces the rise of the vector concept from the discovery of complex numbers through the systems of hypercomplex numbers to the final acceptance around 1910 of the modern system of vector analysis. von Crowe, Michael J.

"Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution" von Michael J. Crowe ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Entwicklung astronomischer Theorien von der Antike bis zur Zeit der kopernikanischen Wende. Das Buch bietet...