History of Science

Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely exp...

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of...

This book is part biographical account, part novel, and part popular science. The basic facts are historically true, but many episodes have additio...

La scienza, come ogni cosa al mondo, ha avuto un inizio, un'origine. Sebbene non si possa stabilire con precisione il momento esatto degli esordi, ...

This book presents the English translation of Organic Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, a foundational work by Justus von...

This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context. It bridges the techniques developed by t...

This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samoss On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by ...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical an...

This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinke...

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original invest...

The word hypothermia has Greek origins meaning under heat. Its symptoms initially involve shivering, poorly coordinated, laborious movement, and di...

Science is a force for good in the world-at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit ...

The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range fr...

The awe-inspiring history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky.'Excellent . . . This books makes you rethink the ...

Opioid addiction is fast becoming the most deadly crisis in American history. In 2018, it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots...

This first book-length study of physico-theology questions the widespread notion of a steadily advancing early modern separation of religion and sc...

This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physicsaside from his relativity theoriesand places each of his ach...