History of Science

In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific...

This book contains an edition - with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary - of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astro...

The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics. Doctors beyond Borders pro...

Einstein introduced quantum entanglement in 1935 and referred to it as spooky actions at a distance because it seemed to conflict with his theory o...

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that like cures like, counter to the conventional tre...

Intersecting art, science and the scenographic mise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contempor...

This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfor...

What does the practical work of writing contribute to historical writing? What does it mean for historical knowledge that it is, inescapably, writt...

This book traces how medicine in modern Iran was both theoretically and institutionally transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It explores the...

The idea that a new technology could challenge human intelligence is as old as the warning from Socrates and Plato that written language eroded mem...

A clear and engaging introduction to the philosophy of science, exploring the role of science within the broader framework of human knowledge and e...

Although Leonardos Giant Crossbow is one of his most popular drawings, it has been one of the least understood. Leonardos Giant Crossbow offers the...

This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a com...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...

The 499 letters in the fourteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall cover a number of particularly intense and acrimonious disputes. Mor...

Tea on the terrace takes the reader on a fascinating journey down the Nile with legendary Egyptologists. Spending time with these remarkable men an...

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, busi...

This book applies a systems and risk perspective on international energy relations, author Per Högselius investigates how and why governments, busi...

Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, un...