History of Science

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity. E...

Science and illustration have always walked hand in hand, and not only the scientific community but the general public as well have used images sin...

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Re...

A wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences an...

Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Cricks 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every ad...

Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astron...

For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.   Reading is perhaps the essential...

The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. Ever since the Soviet Union proved that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile...

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic facts that created a mathematical panic about a looming populati...

John Forresters passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his s...

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fun...

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vl...

This volume of Osiris takes as its point of departure a simple premise: we have yet to fully flesh out the complex historical interplay between med...

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and tech...

Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race. Focusing on the production of scientific knowledge over t...

During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwa...

Following the path by which humanity learned quantum mechanics can lead to an improved teaching and understanding of the fundamental theory and the...

John Forresters passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his s...

In the 1890s, the Pasteur Institute established a network of laboratories that stretched across France's empire, from Indochina to West Africa. Qui...

Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprisi...

In The Private Science of Louis Pasteur, Gerald Geison has written a controversial biography that finally penetrates the secrecy that has surrounde...

Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma--that a ...