History of Science

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his earl...

When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him...

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroi...

Scientific Practices in European History, 12001800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as C...

This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin? Like a detective piecing tog...

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern Eur...

This book investigates the development of mechanical sciences with a focus on epistemological issues. It examines the precursors and fundamental mi...

This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary bas...

Spurred by their commanders during the Korean War to be tigers, aggressive and tenacious American fighter pilots charged headlong into packs of fir...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politi...

This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the ref...

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a si...

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion. The book discusses the condition...

This seventh edition of A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications traces the history of psychology from antiquity through ...

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging ...

This title was first published in 2000: In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his reputation as a pioneer in the new world of ele...

First published in 1997, this second edition of this bibliography contains more than half as many entries again as the original selection of 1966. ...

Jeremiah Joyce was one of the accused in the famous Treason Trials of 1794 which marked the suppression of radical agitation in Britain for the ens...

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines. They grew from minor sciences, with little status in 1900, and now occ...

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin...

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...

Published in 1938: The new volume presents a full and profusely illustrated account of progress made during the eighteenth century in Mathematics, ...

From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be ...

This edited collection is the first of its kind to explore the view called perspectivism in philosophy of science. The book brings together an arra...

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring...

First in the Field: Breaking Ground in Computer Science at Purdue University chronicles the history and development of the first computer science d...

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transa...

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our...

A classic work in the history of science, and described as a good book on rocket stuffthats a really fun one by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers w...

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankin...

With a new introduction placing Plato's great work at the heart of ancient concepts of human organization and justice, this new edition of The Repu...

The Interpretation of Dreams is an essential work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freuds impressive outpu...

The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern Chin...

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or economy of nature) from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. Th...

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resou...

This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand ...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

Visceral.Wall Street Journal     Illuminating.Publishers Weekly     Heroic.Science The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautifu...

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the b...

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poisis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely exp...

Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. P...