History of Science

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...

This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the anna...

Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harr...

Of the 121,000 people on donor lists in the U.S., over 100,000 need kidney transplants and thousands die each year while waiting. Bioprinting aspir...

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to...

Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through hu...