History of Science

The book is about the space race, starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon landings of Armstrong and Aldrin. The conquest of sp...

This book presents the first interdisciplinary study of Alessandro Piccolominis two early astronomical works De la Sfera del Mondo and De le Stell...

Scientific and popular literature on modern cosmology is very extensive; however, scholarly works on the historical development of cosmology are fe...

Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexican culture as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through mural...

Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexican culture as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through mural...

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptolo...

The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptolo...

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine. It ...

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine. It ...

Two questions guide this seven-year project: First, how can we approach the phenomenon, representation, and interpretation of total solar eclipses?...

This book examines the latest manifestations of resource competition. The energy transition and the digitalization of the global economy are both a...

This book offers a fresh perspective on how science and religion are connected, and how prayer aligns with the laws of nature. It explores a holist...

This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 8...

Long before the European Enlightenment, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our k...

This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authoriti...

Wissensgeschichte der Antike und historische Epistemologie sind zu Brennpunkten interdisziplinärer Forschung geworden. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes t...

The publication in 1632 of Galileos Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican marked a crucial moment in the scientific re...

Alexander von Humboldts Essay über Kuba, der auf Französisch verfasste Essai politique sur lîle de Cuba (1825-1826), beschreibt und vermisst die In...

This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological conseq...

Im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer als brillanter Chemiker bekannt, während mehrere seiner Verwandten darunter Di...

Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the cosmos. We now use words like zen...

'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries...

**Finalist for The Cundill History Prize 2023**To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for po...

In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish ...

Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is ...

This edited collection of papers explores from an interdisciplinary perspective the role of images and objects in early modern knowledge-making pra...

The early 1830s witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. New scientific disciplines begin t...

What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historical...

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fictio...

Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand t...

This book discusses key figures in history in the context of their time, takes students on a carefully-formulated, chronological journey through th...

The contents of the letters published here, again show the great range of subjects that occupied Van Leeuwenhoek: from sugar candy, the shape and c...

In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a n...

Tea on the terrace takes the reader on a journey up and down the Nile with famous archaeologists and Egyptologists. Spending time with these fascin...

The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range fr...

How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein...

Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were dif...

This book is the second of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science) and covers the Lat...

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered i...

It sounds so simple. Just combine oxygen and hydrogen in an electrochemical reaction that produces water and electricity, and youll have a clean, e...

In the 1920s and 30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotion...

Insects are seldom mentioned in discussions surrounding human history, yet they have dramatically impacted today's societies. This book places them...

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of p...