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Philosophy of science --- Positivism --- Positivisme --- Science --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- -Philosophy --- Methodology --- History --- Normal science --- Philosophie des sciences --- Philosophie et sciences

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This diverse selection of essays from the Royal Institution's Evening Discourses provides an accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. Written by seven eminent contributors, the essays explore areas ranging from ancient aphrodisiacs to the latest pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, from safety's debt to Davy and Faraday to the role of alcohol in the development of civilization. - ;Much of our present knowledge of the Universe has come from observations made over the centuries with ever more powerful telescopes, operating from isolated mountain to

Science. --- Technology. --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences

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Charlemagne Emperor --- Science, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval --- Learning and scholarship --- Carolingians --- Sciences médiévales --- Civilisation médiévale --- Savoir et érudition --- Carolingiens --- History --- Histoire --- Charlemagne, --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Mathematics --- -Science --- -Science, Medieval --- -Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Medieval science --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Math --- Science --- Natural sciences --- -Medieval science --- -Natural science --- -History

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal skepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

Physicists --- Science --- Feynman, Richard P. --- Feynman, Richard Phillips, --- Feĭnman, Richard P., --- Feynman, R. P. --- פינמן, ריצ'רד פיליפס. --- Physics --- Feynman, Richard P --- (Richard Phillips), 1918 --- -Physicists --- #SBIB:316.23H2 --- Sociologie van de wetenschappen --- -1945-1990 --- 53 --- -Science --- -#WSCH:AAS2 --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- 53 Physics --- Biography --- Humor --- Feynman, Richard Phillips --- #WSCH:AAS2 --- Feynman, Richard Phillips. --- -Feynman, Richard P. --- Biography. --- Humor. --- Physiciens --- 1945-1990 --- Anecdotes --- Anecdotes. --- 53 Fysica. Natuurkunde --- Fysica. Natuurkunde --- (Richard Phillips), 1918-

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Some scholars have viewed the Soviet state and science as two monolithic entities--with bureaucrats as oppressors, and scientists as defenders of intellectual autonomy. Based on previously unknown documents from the archives of state and Communist Party agencies and of numerous scientific institutions, Stalinist Science shows that this picture is oversimplified. Even the reinstated Science Department within the Central Committee was staffed by a leading geneticist and others sympathetic to conventional science. In fact, a symbiosis of state bureaucrats and scientists established a much more terrifying system of control over the scientific community than any critic of Soviet totalitarianism had feared. Some scientists, on the other hand, developed more elaborate devices to avoid and exploit this control system than any advocate of academic freedom could have reasonably hoped. Nikolai Krementsov argues that the model of Stalinist science, already taking hold during the thirties, was reversed by the need for inter-Allied cooperation during World War II. Science, as a tool for winning the war and as a diplomatic and propaganda instrument, began to enjoy higher status, better funding, and relative autonomy. Even the reinstated Science Department within the Central Committee was staffed by a leading geneticist and others sympathetic to conventional science. However, the onset of the Cold War led to a campaign for eliminating such servility to the West. Then the Western links that had benefited genetics and other sciences during the war and through 1946 became a liability, and were used by Lysenko and others to turn back to the repressive past and to delegitimate whole research directions.

Communism --- Science --- History --- History. --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Djougatchvili, Iossif Vissarionovitch, --- Джугашвили, Иосиф Виссарионович, --- Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich, --- Koba, --- Shih-tʻai-lin, --- Sidalin, --- Ssu-ta-lin, --- Stalin, Giuseppe, --- Сталин, И. В. --- Stalin, I. V. --- Сталин, Иосиф, --- Stalin, Iosif, --- Сталин, К., --- Stalin, K., --- Staline, --- Staline, Joseph, --- Staljin, J. V., --- Sutārin, --- Soselo, --- Stalini, Ioseb Besarionis że, --- Sṭalin, Y. Ṿ., --- Sṭalin, Y., --- Stalin, Josef, --- Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich, --- סטאלין, יאסיף, --- סטאלין, י. --- סטאלין, י. וו --- סטאלין, י. װ. --- סטאלין, י., --- סטלין, יוסיף ויסאריונוביץ׳, --- סטלין, יוסף --- 斯大林, --- Stalin, Jossif Vissarionovitš, --- Sztálin, Joszif, --- Istālīn, Yūsīf Vīsāryūnūvīch, --- استالين، يوسيف ويساريونووتج, --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Natural sciences --- Σταλιν, Ιωσηφ, --- Stalin, Ιōsēph, --- Jughashvili, Ioseb, --- Jughashvili, Ioseb Vissarionovich, --- Jughashvili, Koba,