History of Science

The tragedy of American science is that its direction is determined by private profit rather than by the desire to improve the human condition. As ...

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals...

A landmark work of nineteenth-century developmental and evolutionary biology that takes the Darwinian struggle for existence into the organism itse...

In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to im...

In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthu...

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five mill...

In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites then universally considered benign ...

Text in Arabic. From Musa Al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th-century Baghdad to Al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievement...

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science. The specialization thesis-the idea that nineteenth-centur...

Den inhaltlich-thematischen Ausgangspunkt des Bandes bildet das sich verändernde Verhältnis von frühneuzeitlicher Astronomie und Physik zur christl...

The tenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall contains 402 letters covering a two-year period from January 1867 to December 1868. The peri...

The 476 letters in the thirteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from June 1, 1872, to September 28, 1873, much o...

In three volumes, historian Jole Shackelford delineates the history of the study of biological rhythms now widely known as chronobiology from ant...

This book presents the first detailed scientific examination of Alessandro Piccolominis two early astronomical works De la Sfera del Mondo and De ...

Imagining the Darwinian Revolution considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing o...