History of Science

Major shifts in the field of model theory in the twentieth century have seen the development of new tools, methods, and motivations for mathematici...

Learn about the most important discoveries and theories of this science in The Biology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tac...

The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages. Exploring how scientifically-based meteorology spread an...

Carbon plays a fundamental role on Earth. It forms the chemical backbone for all essential organic molecules produced by living organisms. Carbon-b...

Science and faith are often seen as being in opposition. In this book, award-winning sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund questions this assumption ba...

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many dec...

A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit.The more you delve into the stories ...

Martin Harwit's influential book, Cosmic Discovery, is rereleased after more than thirty-five years, with a new preface written by the author. The ...

Newton's Opticks is the most influential optical and experimental work of the eighteenth century. This final volume of The Optical Papers of Isaac ...

Scientific thinking has long been linked to music theory and instrument making, yet the profound and often surprising intersections between the sci...

Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the...

Agustí Nieto-Galan argues that chemistry in the twentieth century was deeply and profoundly political. Far from existing in a distinct public spher...

The cataclysmic stellar explosion Supernova 1987A, visible to the naked eye, was the nearest and brightest supernova witnessed since the invention ...

Who was the scientific progenitor of eugenic thought? Amir Teicher challenges the preoccupation with Darwin's eugenic legacy by uncovering the exte...

From contraception to cloning and pregnancy to populations, reproduction presents urgent challenges today. This field-defining history synthesizes ...

The primary data driver behind US drug policy is the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. This insider history traces the evolution of the surve...

Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational qu...

The relationship between theory and practice, in other words between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the m...

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future o...

'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and science'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by...

Galaxies are known as the building blocks of the universe, but arriving at this understanding has been a thousand-year odyssey. This journey is tol...

Combining physics and philosophy, this is a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science which provides an up-to-date exam...