History of Science

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How did intricately detailed sixteenth-century maps reveal the start of the Atlantic World?Beginning around 1500, in the decades following Columbus...

The Science of Walking recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific stu...

This reference work describes the trial-and-error experiments, discoveries, and inventions of early humans who lived from before recorded history t...

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were a period of scientific and literary reawakening. Scientific development and a renewed interest in classica...

Explore the late 20th-century history and development of plant, animal, and human genetics in this collection of 135 documents. Included are sample...

The 17th century was a time of transition for the study of science and mathematics. The technological achievements of this time directly impacted b...

In 1882, Robert Koch discovered the TB bacillus, signaling a redirection of medical thinking from the trial and error guesswork of individual exper...

This book describes how the growing awareness of the strategic importance of science in the 1930s caused the Allied and German leadership to build ...

Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant...

This study adds to the small but growing literature on Black health history--the rise of hospital care and hospital services provided to Blacks fro...

'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science tha...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...