History of Science

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at...

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.On a winters night in 1951, shortly...

Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2...

The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a ce...

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and exa...

A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolutionA new scientific view of evolution is emergingone that challenges and ex...

Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to a...

Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to a...

Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden...

LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHERUNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE-NOWHER STORY IS FINALLY TOLD...

Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any Jewish ideas, m...

This volume presents new research on Cartesian psychophysiology that combines historical and textual analysis with a consideration of recent advanc...

Science is a serious business, right? Wrong. Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust...

An in-depth look at the history of the environment.Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifesty...

From the 17th century onwards, in a context of increasingly intense trade and diplomatic contacts, the exchange of scientific ideas became a key el...

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline...

A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Telegraph Book of the YearA sweeping history of American psychiatryfrom the mental hospital to the br...

The outstanding trilogy by the Polish historian Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980) who taught many years until his death the history of totalitarian democ...

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press's Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series.

Once upon a time The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern scienc...

Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on th...

The botanical drawings of the American naturalist William Bartram.

Science and illustration have always walked hand in hand, and not only the scientific community but the general public as well have used images sin...

This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural Historys David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. As one of the most visited hum...