History of Science

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...

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at...

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.On a winters night in 1951, shortly...

Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2...

The issue at stake in this volume is the role of science as a way to fulfil a quest for knowledge, a tool in the exploration of foreign lands, a ce...

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and exa...

A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolutionA new scientific view of evolution is emergingone that challenges and ex...

Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to a...

Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to a...

Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden...

LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHERUNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE-NOWHER STORY IS FINALLY TOLD...

Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any Jewish ideas, m...

This volume presents new research on Cartesian psychophysiology that combines historical and textual analysis with a consideration of recent advanc...