History of Science

Given the ubiquity of environmental rhetoric in the modern world, its easy to think that the meaning of the terms environment and environmentalism ...

The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger c...

In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological ...

La scienza è unesaltante avventura che è costume raccontare attraverso le gesta dei grandi. Esiste però unaltra storia, altrettanto avvincente ma c...

The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger c...

The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find the theory of everything that combines all the forces of nature, including gravity. This book addr...

This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their pain...

Everyday sufferingthose conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyones livesis something that humans have grappl...

An intimate, accessible history of British intellectual development across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the story of one family...

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles ...

One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, h...

One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, h...

Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science ...

Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Un...

On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to ...

Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this ...

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, bet...

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer s...

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system. Its constant appearances in news bulletins, its enormous app...

The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this ...