History of Science

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should...

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gla...

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German acad...

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In...

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, ...

Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical--with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled ...

In this classic worka blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant todaythe first Black Congresswoman to serve i...

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and ...

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie...

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of science itself is a rel...

Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge c...

This book offers a comprehensive exploration into the intertwined realms of Einstein's theory of general relativity, the discoveries of black holes...

Women have played a vital role in scientific discovery, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly research and...