History of Science

Tea on the terrace takes the reader on a fascinating journey down the Nile with legendary Egyptologists. Spending time with these remarkable men an...

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, busi...

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, busi...

Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, un...

Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they began and grew in popular...

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than timeit is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Becau...

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than timeit is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Becau...

This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing o...

The first electronic communication network transformed language, distance, and time. This book researches the telegraph system of the British India...

This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled...

This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin. Mark Brake captures the ad...

The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that ha...

This volume gathers essays that focus on the worldliness of science, its inseparable engagement in the major institutional bases of social life: la...

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across ten m...

What are the unequivocal causes of a scientific revolution? In The Origin of Scientific Revolutions, Rinat Nugayev proposes an ideal model that str...

The Alphabet of Galen is a critical edition and English translation of a text describing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural produ...

Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. ...

Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagi...

Archimedes is held in high esteem by mathematicians, physicists and engineers as one of the most brilliant scientists of all time. These proceedin...

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...

Why evolution is like a network, not a family treeand why it matters for understanding the health of all living thingsIn The Network of Life, David...

Historians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear distinction between mystical or occult writing, often termed illuminist, and better-k...

This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to ...

'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable char...

The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest art...

The clarity, authority, wit and insight Lawrence brings to bear are like torches shining into the turbulent darkness of a subject we all wonder at,...

Explore the past, present and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of am...

The story of the rise and fall of smallpox, one of the most savage killers in the history of mankind, and the only disease ever to be successfully ...

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Exam...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement...

A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved ...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbonthe first of its species to see Europe for...

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape h...