It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely...
This book examines the shared rhetoric surrounding the creation of the "inventor" and the "author" in the 1830s, and the challenge of the emerging technologies of mass production to traditional ideas of art and industry. Patent Inventions argues...
PATIESĪBAS Vārdā
2010. g. 9.maijā aprit 65 gadi kopš antihitleriskās koalīcijas uzvaras pār fašistisko Vāciju Otrajā pasaules karā. Tas bijā lielākais, postošākais un nežēlīgākais karš cilvēces vēsturē. Kara liesmās gāja...