History of Science

Today, when global warming denial and vaccination denial are alarmingly prevalent, it is crucial to understand that throughout history, science den...

In autumn of 1949, Enrico Fermi returned to Italy after an eleven-year absence to deliver nine lectures, six in Rome and three in Milan. Apart from...

This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, explor...

This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s. It considers the two institutions promoting the doctrine: the Galt...

This book conducts a historico-critical investigation into a proposal to transform philosophy in the early twentieth century.Driven by the Great Di...

This multidisciplinary work celebrates Wayne Orchiston's career and accomplishments in historical and cultural astronomy on the occasion of his 80t...

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1...

How do you build a scientifically and technologically strong modern nation with limited means and resources? Indian scientists faced this challenge...

Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book AwardsRunner-up, 2024 History category, San Francisco Book FestivalRunner-up, 2024 General Non-Fiction, New...

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which ch...

Jesuit Science and the End of Natures Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and...

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. Norden's text, a series of dialogues between a f...

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the followi...

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the followi...

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transa...

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring...

Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new colle...