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Book Discursos leidos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas  F  sicas y Naturales en la recepci  n p  blica de Jos   Subercase

Download or read book Discursos leidos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas F sicas y Naturales en la recepci n p blica de Jos Subercase written by José Subercase and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discursos leidos ante la real academia de ciencias exactas  fisicas y naturales

Download or read book Discursos leidos ante la real academia de ciencias exactas fisicas y naturales written by Carlos Ibáñez and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discursos le  dos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas  F  sicas y Naturales en la recepci  n

Download or read book Discursos le dos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas F sicas y Naturales en la recepci n written by Ramón Llorente Lázaro and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discursos leidos  by J  Echegaray and L  del Valle  ante la Real Academia de Ciencias exactas  fisicas y naturales en la recepcion p  blica del Se  or     J  Echegaray

Download or read book Discursos leidos by J Echegaray and L del Valle ante la Real Academia de Ciencias exactas fisicas y naturales en la recepcion p blica del Se or J Echegaray written by José María Waldo ECHEGARAY Y EIZAGUIRRE and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of London written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Royal Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California

Download or read book Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California written by Alice Irene Lyser and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Brain in Search of Itself

Download or read book The Brain in Search of Itself written by Benjamin Ehrlich and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Passionate and meticulous . . . [Ehrlich] delivers thought-provoking metaphors, unforgettable scenes and many beautifully worded phrases." —Benjamin Labatut, The New York Times Book Review One of The Telegraph's best books of the year The first major biography of the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind—illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings Unless you’re a neuroscientist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal is likely the most important figure in the history of biology you’ve never heard of. Along with Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur, he ranks among the most brilliant and original biologists of the nineteenth century, and his discoveries have done for our understanding of the human brain what the work of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton did for our conception of the physical universe. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his lifelong investigation of the structure of neurons: “The mysterious butterflies of the soul,” Cajal called them, “whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.” And he produced a dazzling oeuvre of anatomical drawings, whose alien beauty grace the pages of medical textbooks and the walls of museums to this day. Benjamin Ehrlich’s The Brain in Search of Itself is the first major biography in English of this singular figure, whose scientific odyssey mirrored the rocky journey of his beloved homeland of Spain into the twentieth century. Born into relative poverty in a mountaintop hamlet, Cajal was an enterprising and unruly child whose ambitions were both nurtured and thwarted by his father, a country doctor with a flinty disposition. A portrait of a nation as well a biography, The Brain in Search of Itself follows Cajal from the hinterlands to Barcelona and Madrid, where he became an illustrious figure—resisting and ultimately transforming the rigid hierarchies and underdeveloped science that surrounded him. To momentous effect, Cajal devised a theory that was as controversial in his own time as it is universal in ours: that the nervous system is comprised of individual cells with distinctive roles, just like any other organ in the body. In one of the greatest scientific rivalries in history, he argued his case against Camillo Golgi and prevailed. In our age of neuro-imaging and investigations into the neural basis of the mind, Cajal is the artistic and scientific forefather we must get to know. The Brain in Search of Itself is at once the story of how the brain as we know it came into being and a finely wrought portrait of an individual as fantastical and complex as the subject to which he devoted his life.

Book The Politics of Chemistry

Download or read book The Politics of Chemistry written by Agustí Nieto-Galan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agust Nieto-Galan argues that chemistry in the twentieth century was deeply and profoundly political. Far from existing in a distinct public sphere, chemical knowledge was applied in ways that created strong links with industrial and military projects, and national rivalries and international endeavours, that materially shaped the living conditions of millions of citizens. It is within this framework that Nieto-Galan analyses how Spanish chemists became powerful ideological agents in different political contexts, from liberal to dictatorial regimes, throughout the century. He unveils chemists' position of power in Spain, their place in international scientific networks, and their engagement in fierce ideological battles in an age of extremes. Shared discourses between chemistry and liberalism, war, totalitarianism, religion, and diplomacy, he argues, led to advancements in both fields.

Book Recollections of My Life

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  • Author : Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1989-07-06
  • ISBN : 9780262680608
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Recollections of My Life written by Santiago Ramon Y Cajal and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1989-07-06 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding "the life of the infinitely small." Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding "the life of the infinitely small." Widely thought of as the founder of neuroscience, Cajal made remarkable explorations into the organization and function of the nervous system. His work is still referred to more than that of any other scientist in the field.W. Maxwell Cowan's foreword to this edition conveys the excitement and energy of Cajal's life and endeavors, the liveliness and flamboyance of his engagements with the microscope. Cowan surveys Cajal's salient discoveries, noting that almost every important conceptual issue in neurobiology was foreshadowed in Cajal's work: the initial description of the climbing fibers of the cerebellum, the discovery of the growth cone, the concept of the "dynamic polarity" of the neurom an anticipation of the later discovery of axonal transport, and the prediction that new synapses may be formed throughout life to serve as a physical basis for learning and memory. W. Maxwell Cowen is Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975

Download or read book The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975 written by British Library (London) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discursos le  dos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias exactas  f  sicas y naturales  en la recepci  n p  blica del Sr  D  Francisco de Paula Rojas  el d  a 21 de Enero de 1894

Download or read book Discursos le dos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias exactas f sicas y naturales en la recepci n p blica del Sr D Francisco de Paula Rojas el d a 21 de Enero de 1894 written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Human

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  • Author : Maryanne L. Leone
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2023-10-02
  • ISBN : 1487548338
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Beyond Human written by Maryanne L. Leone and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human–human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today’s ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

Book Life Embodied

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  • Author : Nicolás Fernández-Medina
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2018-05-30
  • ISBN : 0773554076
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Life Embodied written by Nicolás Fernández-Medina and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of vital force – the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature – has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicolás Fernández-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filosófica, médico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ramón Gómez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fernández-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fernández-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Martín Martínez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebastián Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio María Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, Ángela Grassi, Julián Sanz del Río, Miguel de Unamuno, and Pío Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.