Quantum electrodynamics – or QED for short – is the theory that explains how light and electrons interact, and in doing so illuminates ...
Continue Reading →First English translation of Einstein’s theory of relativity. In this work Einstein intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into ...
Continue Reading →In this groundbreaking book, Manuel Delanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and ...
Continue Reading →‘can we doubt … that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating ...
Continue Reading →  The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher ...
Continue Reading →Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, ...
Continue Reading →Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label “sociology of art,” it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. ...
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