History of Science

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by...

In his bestselling book, The Language of God, Francis Collins-the director of the National Institutes of Health and the scientist who led the Human...

Recent studies in the history of Islamic science based on the discovery and study of new primary texts and instruments have substantially revised t...

Situated between the Greek, Indian and Persian scientific traditions and modern science, the Islamic scientific tradition received, enriched, trans...

The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been cont...

The unifying theme in this second volume of essays by William A. Wallace to be published in the Variorum series is signaled in the title of the ope...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In volume XVI of The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, 25 letters of Van Leeuwenhoek have been included, all of them written from July 1...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art bl...

From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reachin...

In The Spatial Reformation, Michael J. Sauter offers a sweeping history of the way Europeans conceived of three-dimensional space, including the re...

The influence of Arabic-Islamic science on European astronomy is still evident in the number of terms and star names which derive from the Arabic. ...

In these articles Professor Brooke has aimed to expose and explore the many layers of philosophical debate that accompanied the development of chem...

The articles in this volume provide a profound contribution to our knowledge of the scientific and intellectual context of the great voyages of dis...

A Century of Separation Science presents an extensive overview of the critical developments in separation science since 1900, covering recent advan...

In the period 1700-1850 there took place a major transition in natural philosophy: from Newton’s concept of passive matter activated by ethereal an...

This set of essays - four, including the long title essay, being published here for the first time - reflects the author's long interest in the sci...

This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States, with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of scie...

Demonstrating the strength of tradition in Ireland, Physicists of Ireland: Passion and Precision is a collection of essays on leading figures from ...