Alchemisten, Hexen und ein geheimer Zirkel von Himmelsforschern - Johannes Kepler hatte eine wahrhaft abenteuerliche Jugend.

Leonberg 1577: Als der junge Johannes Kepler eines Nachts einen großen Kometen beobachtet, ist er fortan dem Himmel verfallen. Wie hat Gott die Welt erschaffen, wie sieht sein Bauplan aus? Diese Fragen lassen ihn nicht mehr los. Doch die Herren der obersten Kirchenbehörde, des Stuttgarter Konsistoriums, wachen streng über den lutherischen Glauben. Wer dem geozentrischen Weltbild abschwört, wird zum Feind der Kirche und kann dies sogar mit dem Leben bezahlen. Und so ist die Studienzeit des großen Astronomen in der Maulbronner Klosterschule und am Tübinger Stift alles andere als friedlich ...

Karl Pearson, founding father of sleek facts, got here to this box in terms of passionate early stories of philosophy and cultural background in addition to ether physics and graphical geometry. His religion in technological know-how grew out of a deeply ethical quest, mirrored additionally in his socialism and his efforts to discover a brand new foundation for kin among women and men. This biography recounts Pearson's remarkable highbrow event and sheds new mild at the internal lifetime of science.

Theodore Porter's intensely own portrait of Pearson extends from non secular problem and sexual tensions to metaphysical or even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile cause with enthusiasm and to accomplish the impersonal point of view of technological know-how with no sacrificing complicated individuality. whilst he longed to adventure nature without delay and in detail, he pointed out technology with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter unearths a turning element in Pearson's occupation, the place his humanistic pursuits gave strategy to statistical ones, in his Grammar of Science (1892), within which he tried to set up medical approach because the ethical academic foundation for a refashioned culture.

during this unique and fascinating booklet, a number one historian of recent technology investigates the inner event of 1 man's clinical lifestyles whereas putting it in a wealthy tapestry of social, political, and highbrow movements.

On February 19, 1973, 5 centuries have elapsed because the delivery of Nicolaus Coperni­ cus - the best astronomer of the Renaissance interval - who rediscovered for us the heliocentric version of the sunlight process, and documented it through his life's paintings in one of these demeanour as to make its inspiration an everlasting estate of mankind. The lifetime of Copernicus, extending from 19 February 1473 to his demise on 24 may possibly 1543, used to be now not too wealthy in adventures or biographical evidence. Born in Toruti from a kin of Polish burghers, he acquired his first collage education in Cracow among 1491-1494. From Cracow he proceeded to Italy to spend the years among 1496-1503 on the Universities of Bologna, Padua and Ferrara - with occasional visits to Rom- in practise for an ecclesiastical occupation. while Bishop Watzenrode - his client and maternal uncle - may now not expand his go away, Copernicus lower back to Poland in 1503 to go into the carrier of the church institution, which quickly resulted in a canonry on the Frombork (Frauenburg) Cathedral in Warmia. And there - within the northern mists no longer faraway from the Baltic seashores - in a land so assorted in weather from the sunny Italy of his adolescence - he used to be destined to spend the remainder of his life.

John Niederhauser is remembered and commemorated during this autobiographical memoir as probably the most very important agricultural scientists of the final century, impressive for his contributions to plant pathology and worldwide agriculture, in particular his paintings within the Nineteen Fifties on past due blight affliction of potatoes. besides successful the realm nutrition Prize in 1990, Niederhauser was once additionally a player in different extraordinary occasions reminiscent of the Soviet collectivist test, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agricultural application, the golf green Revolution, and the advance of the process of foreign Agricultural learn facilities (IARCs).

This ebook used to be initially concepted in 2002 as a biography that will be compiled with Niederhauser’s support and information. because of unexpected scheduling conflicts of either editors and the tragic dying of Niederhauser in 2005, the booklet replaced path a bit to develop into the autobiographical tribute that it's this present day. Niederhauser’s reviews and remark from past types of the ebook have been used because the beginning of the publication, with a distinct emphasis on findings taken from his a variety of released and unpublished notes and papers.

This e-book is a smart learn for historical past buffs in addition to people with a keenness for plant pathology. the tale of Neiderhauser’s existence is interlaced along with his personal statement in addition to stories and pictures of his lifestyles and his many contributions to the technological know-how community.

Comments from Colleagues of John Niederhauser...

"He was once a fully great and captivating person. His existence tale is interesting – jam-packed with drama and experience. He was once a type of individuals who was once greater than existence and will allure almost about someone. His love of potatoes used to be with no restrict and his admire for potato past due blight as an adversary used to be rather well positioned. His contribution to our knowing of the pathogen, Phytophthora infestans was once actually transformative. His workforce, operating within the Toluca Valley of Mexico found the A2 mating kind there and validated that sexual copy used to be a standard section of the existence background of this organism there. those discoveries verified that the inhabitants of P. infestans in vital Mexico was once various from another inhabitants of this organism worldwide."
-- Dr. William Fry, Cornell University

"John Niederhauser used to be an fanatic, in addition to a devoted potato scientist, expansive raconteur, and full of life Little League Baseball founder in Mexico. A member of the 1st board of administrators of our non-profit, The Potato Museum, John was once satisfied to percentage with us his insights as to how the potato may decrease international starvation. He provided us his writings, or even a few of his potato apparatus gathered from around the world. We revered that he understood and attached with farmers, and used to be prepared to profit from the locals, whereas while sharing his enormous services with them. An indefatigable tourist, together with his spouse, Ann, John relished the worldʼs alterations and but thrilled within the commonality of almost each person he met."
-- Meredith and Tom Hughes, Co-founders of The Potato Museum and FoodMuseum.com

“John and Ann Niederhauser have been terribly beneficiant to the APS beginning and, consequently, destiny generations of plant pathologists. presents integrated a donation of a big component to John’s international foodstuff Prize to set up the toilet and Ann Niederhauser Endowment to help study on ailments of nutrition plants in constructing international locations. in addition they directed a component of these gains to supply a money prize for the APS overseas provider Award. In 2001, the loo S. Niederhauser scholar shuttle Award used to be verified to aid scholar participation on the annual APS assembly. John enjoyed scholars and interacting with them; the tale of his existence will encourage many and his generosity will gain plant pathology in perpetuity.”
-- Dr. Stella Melugin Coakley, APS origin Chair Emeritus

I wrote this ebook to inform my tale and to inspire marketers in pursuing their desires. a part of its contents facilities at the tale of the way i began, grew and at last bought my high-tech enterprise in Silicon Valley. I interrupt the narrative in different areas to pause and talk about correct subject matters for marketers resembling acquiring investment, hiring salespeople, or engaged on creating a pleasurable go out happen.

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I got here to Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and a cultural transplant, somebody knowledgeable in machine technological know-how and programming, yet now not in enterprise. So I discovered via adventure the issues that each high-tech entrepreneur should still comprehend if she or he has a very good, unique proposal, and wish to make the most of bringing it to undefined.

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My luck didn't keep on with the common direction of recent tech company ventures, which makes me a Silicon Valley nonconformist, of sorts—partially by way of cause, and in part accidentally. I did a few lovely fascinating issues that labored good for me, and some issues that didn't. This ebook is my try to support different excessive tech marketers stay away from the typical pitfalls and traps which may get within the approach of being a hit in Silicon Valley. since it rather is feasible to be successful, with out inevitably growing the subsequent Facebook.

Zwei Brüder, die Geschichte schrieben

Die Brüder Grimm haben den Klang unserer Kindheit bestimmt. Ihre Sammlung der Kinder- und Hausmärchen ist das weltweit meistgelesene deutsche Buch. Sie waren leidenschaftliche Helden der Gelehrsamkeit und haben das Wissen über unsere Sprache und Geschichte revolutioniert. Durch den Protest der «Göttinger Sieben» wurden sie zu politischen Stars. Und obwohl sie unter einem Dach lebten und arbeiteten, waren sie höchst unterschiedliche Charaktere. Steffen Martus zeichnet das faszinierende Porträt zweier moderner Traditionalisten und ihrer Epoche.

«Ein herrliches Buch.» (Berliner Zeitung)

«Eine Doppelbiographie, die durch ihre erzählerische Qualität besticht.» (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

El prestigioso filósofo francés Michel Onfray, autor del best-seller Tratado de ateología, ha escrito un ataque virulento contra el psicoanálisis, y en specific contra el freudismo, vehementemente argumentado y que ha creado una gran polémica en Francia. Onfray parte en este libro de una suggestion basic pero radical: Freud quiso construir una «ciencia» y no lo consiguió; quiso «probar» que el inconsciente tenía sus leyes, su lógica intrínseca, sus protocolos de experimentación, y usó todos los medios a su alcance para adornar el psicoanálisis con l. a. apariencia de lo científico. Con gran rigor, Michel Onfray reexamina las obras de Freud, así como su biografía, para desvelar sus inconsistencias y contradicciones y ofrecer una conclusión implacable: el psicoanálisis no es más que el producto de influencias de l. a. psicología, de los angeles literatura y de los angeles filosofía, pero en ningún caso es l. a. ciencia a los angeles que aspiraba su fundador. «Un ensayo potente, inteligente e inquietante, escrito de manera uncomplicated y directa, hábilmente argumentado y organizado en torno a una tesis sistemáticamente desarrollada.» ROBERT MAGGIORI, Libération «Un libro tan contundente como Tratado de ateología.» Livres Hebdo «No sólo importante sino también apasionante. Este libro ya es un clásico. Como cube Onfray, ya period hora de sacar a Freud de l. a. leyenda para introducirlo en l. a. historia, donde será discutido, atacado y, por supuesto, defendido.» Le Point

a lot has been written approximately Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, yet little or no is still as helpful as this certain hybrid of a ebook written via Einstein’s colleague and modern. either wealthy in own insights and level-headed in a deep wisdom of twentieth-century technology, Phillip Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid assessment of physics and attracts an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize–winner.

En función de facilitar al lector el entendimiento y l. a. compresión de lo expresado por Sigmund Freud en los textos incluidos en este libro –algunos de ellos vertidos en su versión completa y otros consistentes en fragmentos extractados de un texto mucho mayor- hemos orientado nuestra selección hacia l. a. búsqueda de porciones de l. a. obra freudiana que primeramente introduzcan en el pensamiento del genial investigador y luego desglosen los aspectos más importantes de sus descubrimientos clínicos y teóricos. En función de esta meta important, los textos no aparecen ante el lector en un orden cronológico, en l. a. secuencia temporal en que fueron escritos por Freud, sino que están ordenados en una secuencia conveniente para el propósito primary de este libro, un orden de exposición que posibilite ir de lo más sencillo e informativo hasta lo ya más complejo y exigente para los angeles atención del lector. Sin embargo éste, al adentrarse en las partes finales del volumen, contará con mayores elementos de juicio e información, proporcionado por lo que antes ha leído, lo que le permitirá comprender mejor las porciones finales de esta selección.

Algunas lecciones elementales sobre psicoanálisis
La interpretación de los sueños
Psicopatología de l. a. vida cotidiana
Lo inconsciente
El chiste y su relación con lo inconsciente