This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it c...

Ausgangspunkt dieser zum Standardwerk gewordenen Studie ist ein Kernbegriff der neuzeitlichen Wis...

A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. Th...

Regeln ordnen fast jeden Aspekt unseres Lebens. Sie legen unsere Arbeitszeiten fest, bestimmen un...

Der Verweis auf natürliche Ordnungen ist eine Konstante in menschlichen Normsetzungen. Scheinbare...

Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The d...

This pioneering study of Bertrand Russell's social and political thought deals with the years 189...

Probability ideas are the success story common to the growth of the modern natural and social sci...

This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional universit...

In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences ...

This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the e...

Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizab...