History of Science

While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized ...

A wondrous story of scientific endeavorprobing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the...

The story of the conflict thesis between science and religionthe notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the twois part of our modern self-...

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic facts that created a mathematical panic about a looming populati...

The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and actionreligion and technologyare implicated in each other. Contrary to co...

We have 118 known chemical elements as our palette in our context of sustaining our world. Our context is considered in terms of the four spheres o...

John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the twe...

In Bound by Muscle, Andrew Brown details the lives and achievements of two physiologists, Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977) and Otto Fritz Meyerhof...

How the concept of deep time began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this int...

A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of realityWhat is the true nature of r...

In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twent...

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Co...

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Co...

This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosoph...

This book provides a guide to the people, places, artifacts, events, terminology, scientific concepts, groups, critical documents, and code phrases...

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century....

In June of 1925, almost a hundred years ago, Werner Heisenberg spent ten days on the island of Heligoland - thanks to his hayfever.  This respite a...

This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each sourc...

This volume contains 8 papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. It showcases rigorously r...

This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical an...

This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from ...

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by...

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth cen...