History of Science

Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that's just one facet of this geniu...

Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age In Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natur...

How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, ...

Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimi...

Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past...

Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history....

Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of scien...

People have pondered conflicts between science and religion since at least the time of Christ. The millennia-long debate is well documented in the ...

This book is a comprehensive collection of the most influential papers on thermoelectricity published in the last two centuries. Starting with the ...

Over the past thirty years, the worlds patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advoc...

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universeIn this scientific tour de force,...

If the United States couldnt catch up to the Soviets in space, how could it compete with them on Earth? That was the question facing John F. Kenned...

Although historians have suggested for some time that we move away from the assumption of a necessary clash between science and religion, the confl...

Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put ...

This work introduces the important emerging space powers of the world. Brian Harvey describes the origins of the Japanese space program, from rocke...

How do you trap someone in a lie? For centuries, all manner of truth-seekers have used the lie detector. In this eye-opening book, Geoffrey C. Bunn...

This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of lost time by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth cen...

In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked by observation, experiment, confessional strife, an...

This book is the epitome of important developments in chemistry in the 20th century and beyond. It provides a historical account of the Wolf Prize ...

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibilitythe capacity to be transformed by one's e...

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging ...

Peoples of the distant past lived comfortably in cities that boasted well-conceived urban planning, monumental architecture, running water, artisti...