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After a brief career at sea, during which he tested Harrison's chronometer for the Board of Longitude, John Robison (1739-1805) became lecturer in chemistry at the University of Glasgow. In 1774, having spent a period teaching mathematics in Russia, he returned to Scotland as professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh. Despite his busy schedule, he contributed major articles on the sciences to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, giving an overview of contemporary scientific knowledge for the educated layperson. After his death, these and other pieces of his scientific writing were edited by his former pupil David Brewster (1781-1868) and were finally published in four volumes in 1822, with a separate volume of illustrative plates. This reissue incorporates those plates in the relevant volumes of text. Volume 4 contains a variety of Robison's encyclopaedia articles: on electricity and on magnetism, various pieces on the physics of sound and music, and assorted others.

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O estudo de Carolina Biscalquini Talamoni analisa e interpreta os processos de ensino e aprendizagem engendrados no âmbito das aulas da disciplina Anatomia Geral e Humana, ministrada a estudantes de cursos de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas. A autora contempla as problemáticas relacionadas à questão metodológica e à familiarização dos estudantes com o ambiente do laboratório, de modo a cumprir objetivos que ela considera fundamentais. O primeiro é contextualizar a aula do ponto de vista histórico, cultural, psicológico. O segundo é produzir uma análise minuciosa da descrição densa enquanto metodologia de pesquisa pertinente para investigações nos campos das Ciências Sociais e da Educação. Por fim Talamoni almeja demonstrar a descrição densa enquanto resultado e também produto da pesquisa. O primeiro dos cinco capítulos do livro, “Anatomia, ensino e entretenimento” traz um histórico da Anatomia no mundo, a fim de proporcionar um panorama geral da constituição da disciplina anatômica no âmbito da cultura ocidental. No segundo capítulo a autora aborda a história da disciplina no Brasil. O capítulo três, teórico e de revisão bibliográfica, procura orientar o leitor sobre os fundamentos do Programa da Descrição Densa de Clifford Geertz, além e discutir críticas ao programa e as possibilidades de observação proporcionadas pela metodologia, ainda pouco explorada no campo da Educação no Brasil. Em consonância com as propostas da descrição densa, o quarto capítulo trata dos personagens que compuseram o cenário mais abrangente da descrição propriamente dita, enquanto o último apresenta uma descrição densa da disciplina Anatomia Geral e Humana.

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After a brief career at sea, during which he tested Harrison's chronometer for the Board of Longitude, John Robison (1739-1805) became lecturer in chemistry at the University of Glasgow. In 1774, having spent a period teaching mathematics in Russia, he returned to Scotland as professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh. Despite his busy schedule, he contributed major articles on the sciences to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, giving an overview of contemporary scientific knowledge for the educated layperson. After his death, these and other pieces of his scientific writing were edited by his former pupil David Brewster (1781-1868) and were finally published in four volumes in 1822, with a separate volume of illustrative plates. This reissue incorporates those plates in the relevant volumes of text. Volume 2 contains Robison's articles on the steam engine (revised and expanded by his friend James Watt), on other machinery, and on fluid flows.

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The Penguin Dictionary of Science covers all the important topics in this key subject area including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, mathematics, astronomy and computing. Superbly comprehensive and accessible, this newly updated dictionary is the ideal reference tool for anyone who needs to understand scientific terms, whether student, researcher or enthusiastic layperson. - Provides clear definitions of some 7,000 scientific terms - Gives succinct explanations of fundamental terms (ammonia, base pairing, cell) and more specialist concepts (allosteric enzyme, Bravais lattice, close packing) - Covers individual elements and chemical compounds in detail - Contains appendices ranging from lists of SI units and fundamental constants to the periodic table and an outline classification of living organisms - Includes hundreds of illustrations and diagrams.

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