History of Science

From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake, an inspirational human history of space travel, from the Apollo missions to our future for...

This crucial intervention in political epistemology offers a comprehensive discussion of the multiple applicability of Gramscian concepts and categ...

The tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As ...

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals...

A landmark work of nineteenth-century developmental and evolutionary biology that takes the Darwinian struggle for existence into the organism itse...

In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to im...

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthu...

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five mill...

In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites then universally considered benign ...

Text in Arabic. From Musa Al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th-century Baghdad to Al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievement...

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science. The specialization thesis-the idea that nineteenth-centur...

Den inhaltlich-thematischen Ausgangspunkt des Bandes bildet das sich verändernde Verhältnis von frühneuzeitlicher Astronomie und Physik zur christl...

The tenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 402 letters covering a two-year period from January 1867 to December 1868. The peri...

The 476 letters in the thirteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from June 1, 1872, to September 28, 1873, much o...

In three volumes, historian Jole Shackelford delineates the history of the study of biological rhythms now widely known as chronobiology from ant...

This book presents the first detailed scientific examination of Alessandro Piccolominis two early astronomical works De la Sfera del Mondo and De ...

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing o...

A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century.  This book contains the...

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time w...

Mapping the Universe presents a multi-disciplinary and multi-author exploration of Robert Grosseteste's treatise On the Sphere. Composed probably i...

This volume is a brief anthology of the most influential writing by American scientists between 1800 and 1900. Arranged thematically and chronologi...

Little known today, Henry Enfield Roscoe was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain. Having studied in H...

In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large nu...

Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemi...

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of asce...