History of Science

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the...

Ausgehend von der Zeit Newtons befasst sich diese Fortsetzung des Springer-Buches Unser Platz im Universum: Astronomie anhand alter Entdeckungen v...

Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck. Or architecture ...

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the c...

For centuries, smallpox devastated humanity, killing millions and leaving many scarred. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox er...

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20t...

This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabends take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommens...

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of article...

What was philosophy as Descartes found it around 1620? What was philosophy like before Descartes reformed it after 1637? What features of philosoph...

Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exp...

Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exp...

Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disabilit...

This volume covers one of the most thrilling two-year periods in twentieth-century physics, as matrix mechanicsdeveloped chiefly by W. Heisenberg, ...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human...