History of Science

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopolds vision for human interaction with the environment.   Informed by his experiences as a hunte...

Today's science tells us that our bodies are filled with molecular machinery that orchestrates all sorts of life processes. When we think, microsco...

In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind...

Gösta Mittag-Leffler (18461927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Regarded as the father of Swedish mathematics, his ...

Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific mod...

Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental ...

This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancien...

Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical cult...

Clerics in the Middle Ages were subjected to differing ideals of masculinity, both from within the Church and from lay society. The historians in t...

Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These...

Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault...

This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case studies from Austria, Poland, the C...

This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new ...

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincing...

Modernism and Eugenics comprehensively explores modern Europe's fixation with eugenic programmes of racial and national purification. It convincing...

Focusing on a wide range of philosophers and writers, from Nietzsche to Derrida and Flaubert to Borges, this book charts the history of the deploym...

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unrav...

Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a wh...

This book delves into Einstein's fascinating, although lesser-known, journey to Malaya in 1922 and 1923. During a trip to Japan at the end of 1922,...

The truss adopts the rational configuration of the non-deformable triangle, optimizing the exploitation of the wooden members' resistance resources...

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, its easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism ...

The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger c...

In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological ...

La scienza è unesaltante avventura che è costume raccontare attraverso le gesta dei grandi. Esiste però unaltra storia, altrettanto avvincente ma c...

The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger c...

The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the theory of everything that combines all the forces of nature, including gravity. This book addr...

This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their pain...

Everyday sufferingthose conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyones livesis something that humans have grappl...

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family...

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles ...

One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, h...

One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, h...

Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science ...

Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Un...

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to ...

Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this ...

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, bet...

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer s...

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous app...