History of Science

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of...

A little over 170 years ago--hardly a moment on the clock of history--one half of the United States was empty of all but Indians and the plants and...

Molecular biology as a distinct scientific discipline had its origins in chemistry and physical biochemistry, gradually emerging in the period betw...

From the biographies on Galileo and Dorothy Hodgkin to the discussions chronicling the change of science from simply a tool of learning to a major ...

This volume will provide students and researchers alike with a solid grounding both in traditional aspects of marginality and in the increasing imp...

The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the ...

A penetrating account of the confrontation between Galileo and the Church of Rome

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the in...

In 1633 the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending the astronomical theory that the earth moves, and implicitly a...

In the 1950s and early 1960s a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere, reaching the...

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

From the wheel to artificial intelligence, our planet has been transformed by science.Now you can travel through time to experience centuries of in...

Rebel in Radio (1973) looks at the story of WQXR, the rebel New York commercial radio station. It examines WQXR’s place in broadcasting history, an...

In The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences eleven scholars widely known for their interdisciplinary work investigate one of the most striking devel...

Within key texts of Romanticic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist...

This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany...

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and ...

The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin,...

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just ...

 A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages“In Mr. Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way.”—Alan Hirshf...

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them ac...

One Time Fits All provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuse...

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devi...

'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A scienc...

‘Human zoos’, forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these ‘anthropo-zoological’ exhibitio...

This magnificent book is the first comprehensive history of statistics from its beginnings around 1700 to its emergence as a distinct and mature di...

In this impressively researched and highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and indus...

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International...

Published in 1935: This is the first attempt to give a full portrait if the mind of the 16th and 17th centuries. Detailed accounts are given of all...

The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowled...

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current ma...

First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the re...

Fractions are everywhere and yet most of us learn only basic and rather dry facts about fractions in primary school. This book makes fractions come...

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original invest...

This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kind...