San Antonio College Library

PRESENTS A COLLECTION OF PHYSICS DEMONSTRATIONS THAT ILLUSTRATE KEY CONCEPTS USING EASILY ACCESSIBLE MATERIALS, WITH INFORMATION PROVIDING A THEORETICAL BACKGROUND FOR EACH DEMONSTRATION.

Encompassing scientific achievements from China, the Mediterranean world, Mesoamerica, and elsewhere, this text describes technological and scientific inventions from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Separate chapters are devoted to agriculture, astronomy, communications, engineering, timekeeping, tools and weaponry, medicine and health, mathematics, transportation and trade, the physical sciences, botany and zoology, the physical sciences, personal...

A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility. "Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers--some willingly, some unwittingly--have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest...

Arranged alphabetically, offers more than sixty entries covering nineteenth-century inventions, experiments, and discoveries including the elevator, the spectroscope, and Pasteur's development of the germ theory.

Just as in art, the Renaissance saw a surge in achievements in science and math. In this alphabetical listing of 60 entries from "analytical geometry" to the "vacuum pump," Windelspecht (biology, Appalachian State U., Boone, NC) showcases 17th century scientific advances belying the postmodernist credo that scientific truths are contrived and relative rather than the result of cumulative application of the self-correcting scientific method. Includes...

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were a period of scientific and literary reawakening. This reference work describes more than 75 experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the period, as well as the scientists, physicians, and scholars responsible for them. Individuals such as Leonardo da Vinci, Marco Polo, and Galileo are included, along with entries on reconstructive surgery, Stonehenge, eyeglasses, the microscope, and the discovery of smallpox....

"The creator of the famous "Obedience Experiments," carried out at Yale in the 1960s, and originator of the "six degrees of separation" concept, Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. In this biography - the first in-depth portrait of Milgram - Thomas Blass captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a man who profoundly altered the way we think about human nature."--Jacket.

Argues that Franklin's kite experiment never took place and that it was a scientific hoax that grew to legendary proportions and may have affected the outcome of the American Revolution.