History of Science

Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patche...

Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveal...

A prominent member of a flourishing scientific and literary community, William Nicholson, author, patent agent and civil engineer, founded a widely...

In the twenty-first century, we take the means to measure time for granted, without contemplating the sophisticated concepts on which our time scal...

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was...

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (17431820) accompanied Captain James Cook (17281779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour v...

In this book, Erick Raphael Jiménez examines Aristotle's concept of mind (nous), a key concept in Aristotelian psychology, metaphysics, and epistem...

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central dis...

Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychologic...

This is the first critical edition of Epistles 15-21 of the Brethren of Purity, which explore the natural sciences and correspond to Aristotle's gr...

From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the...

The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic politica...

Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of w...

Why in the world are we paying for all this basic research? The answer to this question becomes clear in this romp through the seemingly useless wo...

History and Philosophy of Biology summarizes the major philosophical ideas that have attended the development of science in general and of biology ...

In the 1940s, the eminent British botanist John Heslop Harrison proposed a controversial theory: that vegetation on the islands off the west coast ...

A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein's expedition to Mount Eve...

This is not only the first global history of nineteenth-century science but the first global history of phrenology. Phrenology was the most popular...

A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop. At breakfast tables an...

Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'. The same might al...

A TIMES AND OBSERVER HIGHLIGHT FOR 2022 ''An empowering story of human ingenuity'' Economist ''Full of curious facts'' The Times ''Grippin...

''Extraordinary'' Leonard Susskind | ''A true master'' Sean CarollThis Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific i...

'An utterly dazzling book, the best piece of history I have read for a long time' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps'No...

* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST *Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suf...

A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to...

Entertaining and engrossing Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekee...

The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasa...

How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science?2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Confer...

Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing. - The Wall Street Journal A globetrotting historical adventure, told from ...

The Chau Chak Wing Museum - opening in 2020 as part of the University of Sydney - is the stunning new home for the collections of the Macleay Mus...

A brilliant and sobering (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksAs seen on 60 Minutes  The Wo...

Addressing the technological opportunities and challenges of the 21st century, Introduction to Philosophy of Technology offers the most up-to-date ...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and tran...

People of all ages are fascinated by dinosaurs. And they have a lot of questions about them too: When and where did dinosaurs live? Are they mentio...