History of Science

Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudo...

Dmitrii Mendeleev (18341907) is a name we recognize, but perhaps only as the creator of the periodic table of elements. Generally, little else has ...

The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary v...

The principle of the conservation of energy was among the most important developments of nineteenth-century physics, and Robert Mayer, a physician ...

In The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and resto...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scie...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation. The contributors to this collection focus on what happens to knowled...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...

Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national securit...

The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and t...

The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in the colonization of India. During t...

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award***Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize*Pick...

Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanis...

Charles Darwins theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism cons...

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism...

Here is the tale of Canadas intriguing development of the science of Radio Astronomy. In 1946 the lone figure of Arthur Covington started monitorin...

The Devils Hole pupfish is one of the rarest vertebrate animals on the planet; its only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Vall...

Charles Robert Darwin (18091882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western tho...

This installment in a series on science and technology in world history begins in the fourteenth century, explaining the origin and nature of sc...

Physical organic chemistry is a modern scientific subdiscipline whose reach is pervasive throughout chemistry, underpinning every academic and indu...

Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with...

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The be...

This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles,...

'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real anal...

From the bestselling author of The Drunkard's Walk and Subliminal, this is the inspiring and illuminating story of how we have come to understand t...

A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders  While recent hist...

The orphan Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) developed sophisticated measuring instruments and a very precise theory of the movement of the moon around the ...

'Includes exciting recent advances in studying gravity and its cosmic manifestations.' Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, former President of the ...

How the concept of proof has enabled the creation of mathematical knowledgeThe Story of Proof investigates the evolution of the concept of proofone...

Albert Einstein was initially skeptical and even disdainful of the Zionist movement, yet he affiliated himself with this controversial political id...

Queer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women...