History of Science

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...

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which fo...

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which fo...

While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that...

This collection offers new perspectives on the study of science and religion, bringing together articles that highlight the differences between epi...

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donnes Metempsychosis. In contrast, th...

Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their...

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty bega...

Mobile Telecommunications in a High Speed World tells the story of 3G and higher-speed mobile communication technologies. Over ten years have passe...

Instrumental Lives is an account of instrument making at the cutting edge of contemporary science and technology in a modern Indian scientific labo...

What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians physiognomy? Victorians ...

Using empirical research to explore medieval writers' imaginings of time, this study presents a new morphology by which to study narratives of time...

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was th...

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was th...

The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged,...

The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged,...

In Scientific Controversies, Dominque Raynaud shows how organized debates in the sciences help us establish or verify our knowledge of the world. I...