History of Science

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

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.   The experiment has long been seen as a test bed for theory...

'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind'A rare event' Sean Carroll_____When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could...

Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of c...

The rediscovery of a curators lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museums famed col...

The rediscovery of a curators lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museums famed col...

The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one of the most important and heterogen...

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.   The experiment has long been seen as a test bed for theory...

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and pra...

Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they began and grew in popular...

Jungs lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practiceunabridged in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a ...

Churchill's 'Black Dog' is widely believed to have been an inborn tendency towards prolonged and despairing depression. In this, the first book-len...

This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natur...

The word biology was first used to describe the scientific study of life in 1802, and as Davide Tarizzo demonstrates in his reconstruction of the g...

From the gay gene to the female brain and African American students insufficient hereditary background for higher education, arguments about a biol...

Jung's illuminating lectures on the psychology of Eastern spiritualityBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at th...

An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the people who made themAdvances in psychology h...

A surprising look at the role of menopause in human historyand why we should change the ways we think about itAre the ways we look at menopause all...

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists ...

This book offers a clear account of timelessness together with the discussion of temporality in fundamental physics and cosmology. The multi-discip...

Qanats and Historic Structures in Persia presents the early history of water science and includes the advanced knowledge held by Persians regarding...

Modernism's Inhuman Worlds explores the centrality of ecological precarity, species indeterminacy, planetary change, and the specter of extinction ...

This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roma...

A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as int...

In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood l...

Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines h...

At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever ha...

This collection takes the perspective that the historiography of science, technology, and medicine needs a broader approach toward regulation. The ...

Offering one of the first analyses of how networks of science interacted within the British Empire during the past two centuries, this volume shows...

This book highlights stories of the most important 13 ground-based observatories and 14 space probes in human history, leading readers through each...

Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space be...

This volume provides a wide-ranging introduction to Keplers work, with essays on his religion, his cosmological theories, his work in astronomy, as...

The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argu...

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the i...

Long before the foundations of the concept of sustainability were laid down and green chemistry became a hot topic, chemists had already been looki...

For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, ...

This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden...

A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the YearProvides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.Smi...

India has a strong and ancient tradition of astronomy, which seamlessly merges with the current activities in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the cou...

Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how si...