History of Science

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by...

The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling of the 21st century th...

The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling of the 21st century th...

Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half of the eighteenth century. To own a Ramsden ...

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of impr...

From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fasc...

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this bina...

This volume explores the philosophy of Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. It presents, for the first time, English-language essays on Condillac’s philoso...

In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco...

This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of col...

“Like al-Qazwīnī himself, Travis Zadeh has written a deliciously baggy tome, full of delights and diversions in its tour of the cosmic horizons. Th...

The International Bestseller'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill, theoretical physicis...

Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human histor...

Within key texts of Romanticic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist...

In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco...

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, gra...

An eye-opening work for anyone concerned with the humanistic understanding of science "Enlightening reading for the scientist and non-scientist ali...

Kant's philosophy is usually treated according to 'internalist' textual methodology rather than contextually according to 'externalist' methodology...

Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, gra...

What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the scie...

Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking...

Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate th...

Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, includi...

The basis of Muslim philosophy and science is the instruction buried in the Quran. At an early date this tradition was enlarged and strengthened by...

Originally published in 1967. The origin of the Royal Society has long been obscured by baffling discrepancies in the evidence. This volume investi...

In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications? The icons used in ancient Mayan and Sume...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

In this volume in the Masterworks of Discovery series, Thomas K. Simpson offers readers a chance to watch one of the greatest minds in physics hard...

Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoe...