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      • mikrotext / Nikola Richter

        mikrotext is a publisher for texts with attitude and for new narratives, founded in 2013 in Berlin by Nikola Richter The independent publishing house focusses on new literary texts that comment on contemporary questions and allow insights into tomorrow. The texts are inspired by discussions on social media platformes and reflect today’s global debates. All titles are published digital first. A selection is available in English. In 2020 and 2019, mikrotext was awarded the German Publisher Award by the Federal Ministry of Culture and Media.

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      • Ediciones Corregidor is an independent Argentine publisher with more than five decades publishing..

        Corregidor is an independent Argentine publisher with more than five decades, dedicated to publishing and distributing a catalog focused in Latin American and Argentine literature.

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        March 2015

        Das Insektenbuch

        by Maria Sibylla Merian, Helmut Deckert

        Im Jahre 1699 reiste die Kupferstecherin und Naturforscherin Maria Sibylla Merian nach Surinam und unternahm Expeditionen in den Urwald, um dort die tropischen Insekten zu beobachten und zu zeichnen. Nach ihrer Rückkehr erschien 1705 ihr Hauptwerk, die Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamesium, das ihr weltweite Berühmtheit verschaffte und die zeitgenössische Gelehrtenwelt begeisterte. Merians Zeichnungen von Raupen und Würmern und ihrer Verwandlung in Schmetterlinge und Falter sind detailliert und so genau, wie man sie nie zuvor gesehen hatte. Noch immer fasziniert Merians Malkunst, die für ihre Zeit ungewöhnliche Natürlichkeit, ihre kunstvolle Komposition und lebhafte Kolorierung.

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        January 1989

        Trigonometrisch-astronomisches Rechnen kurz vor Copernicus

        Der Briefwechsel Regiomontanus-Bianchini

        by Gerl, Armin

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      • Children's & YA

        Agathe Ugly

        by Maximilian Appel/ Claudelle Deckert/ Thomas Wulfes

        The spider Agathe Ugly is very sad. Because of her hairy body and her long legs, nobody likes her. She dreams of looking like a butterfly or another cute animal to be loved eventually. Even with some make-up and a pink ribbon, she still looks scary ... But just after landing in the black belly of a hoover, she suddenly sees light at the end of the tunnel ... A book that helps overcome the fear of spiders!

      • November 2019

        Little Copernicus and the mystery castle

        by Aggelos Aggelou & Emi Sini

        Copernicus and his friends are always ready to help, to explore, to make new friends, and live new adventures!

      • October 2018

        Little Copernicus and the dinosaur park

        by Aggelos Aggelou & Emi Sini

        Copernicus and his friends are always ready to help, to explore, to make new friends, and live new adventures!

      • May 2018

        Little Copernicus' White Wars

        by Aggelos Aggelou & Emi Sini

        Copernicus and his friends are always ready to help, to explore, to make new friends, and live new adventures!

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2020

        Cosmonauts do it in Heaven

        by Keith Gottschalk

        Keith Gottschalk is one of very few English language poets after Walt Whitman to compose poems celebrating engineers, inventions, and scientists. With wit and paradox, these poems explore our solar system, and celebrate astronomers and spaceflight. This collection opens with an imaginary trip through time from Copernicus to Einstein – those who literally made space as we conceptualise it today. It closes with an imaginary trip through our solar system. In between, we find moving elegies to astronauts who lost their lives, and celebrations of a glittering international constellation of engineers, inventors, mathematicians, and researchers. Irony, allusions, double-entendres, and wonderment are always looking over the reader’s shoulder. Many of these poems, composed over thirty-four years, have already been individually published to acclaim in literary and other magazines.

      • June 2023

        Nature and Nature's God

        A Philosophical and Scientific Defense of Aquinas' Unmoved Mover Argument

        by Daniel Shields

        Aquinas’ first proof for God’s existence is usually interpreted as a metaphysical argument immune to any objections coming from empirical science. Connections to Aquinas’ own historical understanding of physics and cosmology are ignored or downplayed. Nature and Nature's God proposes a natural philosophical interpretation of Aquinas’ argument more sensitive to the broader context of Aquinas’ work and yielding a more historically accurate account of the argument. Paradoxically, the book also shows that, on such an interpretation, Aquinas’ argument is not only consistent with modern science, but actually confirmed by the history of science, from classical mechanics through 19th century thermodynamics to contemporary cosmology. The first part of the book considers Aquinas’ argument in its historical context, exploring the key principles that everything in motion is moved by something else and that an infinite regress of causes is impossible. The structure of the First Way is analyzed and the argument is connected both with Aquinas’ Third Way—a new interpretation of which is also proposed—and Aquinas’ second proof from motion in the Summa contra Gentiles. To complete the account of what natural philosophy—prior to metaphysics—can demonstrate about God, a chapter on Aquinas’ teleological argument (the Fifth Way) is also included. The second part of the book tracks the history of modern science from Copernicus to today, showing how Aquinas’ argument fared at each major turn. The first chapter shows how Newton’s understanding of inertia and conservation of momentum supports the idea that motion cannot continue forever without God’s causality, and integrates a modern understanding of inertia and gravity with the principles of Thomistic natural philosophy. The second chapter considers the first and second laws of thermodynamics, showing how they too support Aquinas’ contention that motion cannot continue forever without God’s causality. This chapter also discusses statistical mechanics and contemporary cosmology, demonstrating that science continues to support Aquinas’ unmoved mover argument. The final chapter turns to modern biology as well as cosmological fine-tuning to show that modern science also continues to support Aquinas’ teleological argument. The result is not only a satisfying defense of Aquinas’ natural philosophical proofs for God’s existence, but a primer on the broader project of integrating Thomistic natural philosophy with modern science.

      • Geometry and Art

        How Mathematics Transformed Art during the Renaissance

        by David Wade

        The book follows the search for perspective among artists through an exploration of geometry, which began in Florence during the renaissance. Influencing the work of artists such as Paulo Uccello, Piero della Francesco and Leonardo Da Vinci, it spread to Germany through the work of Dϋrer and others. It was there, in Germany, for a brief period in the mid-16th century, the fashion for polyhedral-based geometrical designs flourished as a distinct art form.

      • Children's & YA
        March 2019

        Next door friends

        by Aggelos Aggelou & Emi Sini, Sofia Touliatou

        A red ball gives the residents of a block of flats the chance to meet. As the ball rolls down the stairs, a tendeer story about isolation unfolds and makes us realise how children's spontaneity can break down barriers and bring all sorts of people together.

      • A history of where. Looking for the boundaries of the world

        Alla ricerca dei confine del mondo

        by Tommaso Maccacaro Claudio M. Tartari

        Since the very first time man began measuring the space around him, wonder never ceased. The question "Where are we?" looks like an easy one and yet the answer is anything but simple. The question is still open. Conclusions are always provisional, always questioned by new findings.The space gets bigger and bigger, the notion of "where" becomes broader. It is not just the Big Bang or the universe expanding: it is our perception of the space that broadened over time,becoming more and more complex and making us smaller and smaller, lost in a "where" now limitless.In this short but dense and enjoyable book, Maccacaro and Tartari bring us from the fuzzy space of the valleys inhabited by Homo Erectus to the cosmogonic myths of ancient cultures, introducing us to the first representations of the world. Leafing through their book we will learn that the great Empires of the Bronze Age already created sophisticated conceptual maps, while the stars already helped travellers to find their way. Heavenly space constantly intersectedwith the space on earth, and in classical antiquity the space began to dilate. During the Middle Ages calculation and navigation tools became more refined. Eventually, the discovery of a new continent radically changed our notion of "where", and subsequent exploration rapidly filled with names the spaces previously left blank on ancient parchment maps. In the Modern Age, lenses made the sky bigger, leading to the discovery of new planets. Stars quickly turned intogalaxies, while new theories literally reshaped the world. "Where" is now an elastic, time-related, limitless and ever changing concept.

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