History of Science

The 48th Congress of German Historians was held in Berlin from September 28 through October 1, 2010, and had as theme On Borders. This is the offic...

This textbook provides an accessible and pedagogical explanation of the way microscopes magnify images and covers all techniques to date in transmi...

From the eighteenth century until as recently as World War II, the natural scientist was depicted as a kind of moral superhero: objective, modest, ...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

When the atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and the limnologist Eugene F. Stoermer introduced the term Anthropocene in 2000, they kicked off a scient...

A landmark history of early radio in Germany and the quest for broadcast fidelityWhen we turn on a radio or stream a playlist, we can usually recog...

An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquityEuclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their co...

The essays in this volume present a nuanced analysis of the development of scientific fields and institutions in Eastern Europe during the long 19t...

Prestige and international visibility beyond the confines of the academic world are key reasons for universities to get involved in international r...

Wissenschaftlicher Austausch und Vernetzung in der Forschung waren schon zur Eröffnung der Universität Göttingen im Jahr 1737 kaum zu überschätzen....

Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally ...

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scie...

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over themCharles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant sp...

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinThis volume finds Einstein recovered and traveling again after a ...

Traces a commonplace averagesea levelfrom its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global warming.   News reports warn of risin...

Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphismthe dominant th...

Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E McClellan III and ...

Crucial to most research in physics, as well as leading to the development of inventions such as the transistor and the laser, quantum mechanics ap...

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.   Reading is perhaps the essential...

Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written. Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No su...

An English-language edition of selected correspondence and papers of Albert EinsteinA translation of selected non-English texts included in Volume ...

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishm...