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- Mar 23, 2020
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- Karl Galle
- About My Library
My primary training is in the history and philosophy of science, but my professional career has been a mix of teaching, international development, and science & health policy. The library collections here are thus a mix of my and my wife's different professional and recreational interests over successive work areas and locations, including many years in Egypt. I am currently researching and writing a book about the life & times of Nicholas Copernicus, as reflected in the large number of volumes related to the history of astronomy & mathematics. The fact that the majority of book entries and a handful of old reviews all date from March 2020 is simply a reflection that this is the date when I migrated those entries from an older GoodReads account.
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- Washington DC and Cairo
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- The Copernican question : prognostication, skepticism, and celestial order (tekijä: Robert S. Westman)Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English (tekijä: Gordin Michael D)Evil in modern thought : an alternative history of philosophy ; with a new preface by the author (tekijä: Susan Neiman)The reconstruction of nations : Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (tekijä: Timothy Snyder)Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: New Worlds in Print Culture (History of Text Technologies) (tekijä: S. Leitch)Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543): Revolutionär wider Willen (German Edition) (tekijä: Gudrun Wolfschmidt)The Decameron (tekijä: Giovanni Boccaccio)Le livre du ciel et du monde (tekijä: Nicole Oresme)Chaucer: A European Life (tekijä: Marion Turner)The Vanished Kingdom (tekijä: James Charles Roy)Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000 (tekijä: Helmut Walser Smith)The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight (tekijä: Martha Ackmann)Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World (tekijä: Josh Tickell)News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945 (Harvard Historical Studies) (tekijä: Heidi J. S. Tworek)The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew (tekijä: Yair Mintzker)On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies (tekijä: Stefano Gattei)Poets, patrons, and printers : crisis of authority in late medieval France (tekijä: Cynthia Jane Brown)Emperor of the world : Charlemagne and the construction of imperial authority, 800-1229 (tekijä: Anne Austin Latowsky)Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending (Material Texts) (tekijä: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein)Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition (tekijä: Michel-Rolph Trouillot)The Thing Itself (tekijä: Adam Roberts)The poison trials : wonder drugs, experiment, and the battle for authority in Renaissance science (tekijä: Alisha Michelle ̌Rankin)We Have Never Been Modern (tekijä: Bruno Latour)Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe (tekijä: C. Philipp E. Nothaft)Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (tekijä: David S. Richeson)Gunpowder Technology in the Fifteenth Century: A Study, Edition and Translation of the "Firework Book" (Royal Armouries Research Series, 3) (tekijä: Professor Axel Müller)Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (Material Texts) (tekijä: Gordon Fraser)Leviathan Wakes (tekijä: James S. A. Corey)Everything I Never Told You (tekijä: Celeste Ng)
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