History of Science

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century...

By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines s...

By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines s...

A comprehensive history of the biological sciences from antiquity to the modern eraThis book presents a global history of the biological sciences f...

New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-Europ...

Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, ...

The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, ...

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide vari...

This volume brings together some of the best recent scholarship on what might be termed Einstein's formative period, that is, the thirty years be...

The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two ...

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of t...

In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery s...

The story of the conflict thesis between science and religionthe notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the twois part of our modern self-...

An examination of how female same-sex desires were represented in a wide range of Italian and British medical writings, 1870-1920. It shows how the...

In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement. He i...

In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement. He i...

The commodification of scienceoften identified with commercialization, or the selling of expertise and research results and the capitalization of k...

The book presents a history of classical mechanics by focusing on issues of equilibrium. The historical point of view adopted here restricts attent...

Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War hi...

Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land a...

Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land a...