History of Science

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astr...

Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard’s early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and ...

In this book, Peter Stearns presents the fascinating concept of time through a global historical lens. Covering both calendrical time and clock tim...

In a rich and fascinating history John Cornwell tells the epic story of Germany's scientists from the First World War to the collapse of Hitler's R...

The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern Englis...

This book, first available in 1994, was published to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertz’s death at the terribly young age ...

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical an...

In the long eighteenth century, between 1650 and 1820, Wales and the rest of Europe moved from a world of alchemy to one of steam engines and elect...

By 1865 the American West had been thoroughly explored, but the knowledge obtained was by no means comprehensive. Though Americans generally agreed...

The "museum movement" of the late nineteenth century resulted in the creation and expansion of museums throughout Europe and North America and stim...

The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its development h...

This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Introduces ...

This Very Short Introduction traces the history and cultural impact of the elements on humankind, and examines why people have long sought to ident...

This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Introduces ...

This extraordinary work takes the reader on a long and fascinating journey--from the dual invention of numbers and language, through the major real...

The trail led first to Joseph Hooker and Thomas Huxley, who had been both the theory's strongest supporters and its most penetrating critics, and e...

James Clerk Maxwell published the Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in 1873. At his death, six years later, his theory of the electromagnetic f...

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astr...

Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this ...