History of Science

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinThis volume finds Einstein recovered and traveling again after a ...

Traces a commonplace averagesea levelfrom its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global warming.   News reports warn of risin...

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphismthe dominant th...

Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E McClellan III and ...

Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as the transistor and the laser, quantum mechanics ap...

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.   Reading is perhaps the essential...

Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written. Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No su...

An English-language edition of selected correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinA translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume ...

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishm...

Explore the incredible discoveries and innovations of today and tomorrow with this 2025 science calendar!Remarkable science has never been more ins...

London has seen many scientific discoveries and engineering feats in its history. Scientists have made their home and studied in the metropolis, wh...

This book presents an innovative, scientifically grounded interpretation of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. It offers solutions to problems in...

Millions of years ago, a small dinosaur slips and scrambles, before sinking into the earth. Her bones lie under the soil, slowly transforming into ...

In Ancient Cosmologies (1975) nine eminent scholars seek to answer the question, what was the shape of the universe imagined by those ancient peopl...

The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of ye...

Lavishly illustrated with full-color geological maps, tables of strata, geological cross-sections, photographs, and fossil illustrations from the a...

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine...

Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine...

A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have fascinated and mystified humans si...

First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity offered an overview and explanatio...

Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural tran...

Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural tran...

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figure...

A sonnet to science presents an account of six ground-breaking scientists who also wrote poetry, and the effect that this had on their lives and re...

'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species NAOMI KLEIN Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and ...

The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics...