History of Science

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (18861968), a schol...

In Science in World History, James Trefil presents a comprehensive, thematic survey of the history of science from its roots in different cultures ...

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations poss...

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn ...

Contemporary interest in Darwin rises from a general ideal of what Darwins books ought to contain: a theory of transformation of species by natural...

François Zanetti sintéresse ici à une pratique médicale peu explorée par les historiens: lutilisation de lélectricité. La transformation du fluide ...

Continuing their research uncovering the lives of women chemists at the turn of the 20th Century, Geoff and Marelene Rayner-Canham have turned thei...

In fewer than two-hundred pages, David Stove leaves the well-established and widely regarded edifice of the academic philosophy of science in smold...

The name of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is inscribed in almost every flora and fauna published from the mid-eighteenth century onwards; in this respe...

Trees and tree products have long been central to human life and culture, taking on intensified significance during the long eighteenth century. As...

Le XVIIIe siècle, quel que soit langle sous lequel on le considère, na cessé de penser lordre naturel. Comment les philosophes et les écrivains sen...

Brilliant. . . . An absorbing read and a potent lesson in moral behaviorboth of rodents and of humans.Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of...

The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation explores how architectural media came t...

Robert Hooke was England's first professional scientist, and a pioneer in the field of science communication. He was also one of the few early scie...

Thomas Kuhn is widely considered as one of the most important philosophers of science in the 20th century and his The Structure of Scientific Revol...

A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work rema...

When Christa Kuljian arrived on the Harvard College campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1980 with copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ms....

When Christa Kuljian arrived on the Harvard College campus as a first-year student in the fall of 1980 with copies of Our Bodies, Ourselves and Ms....

This book examines the search for occult or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newtons theory of gravity. It investigates how history has sim...

The revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimi...