History of Science

What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question s...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Os...

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within h...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, pro...

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the e...

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for explorato...

Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him one of the few sc...

Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the worlds most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably...

BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The intervie...

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel t...

According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of time and eternity is centra...

Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING FELICITY JONES AND EDDIE REDMAYNE A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total a...

An in-depth look at the history of the environment.Is it possible for the economy to grow without the environment being destroyed? Will our lifesty...

Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke a...

FINALIST! 2019 IEEE William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award This biography of Oliver Heaviside profiles the life of an un...

As an instrument of science and navigation the telescope was at the forefront of discovery. Even today it is vital to modern understanding of space...

A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on EarthWhen we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our hom...

A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurt...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it ...

Niels Bohr was a central figure in quantum physics, well known for his work on atomic structure and his contributions to the Copenhagen interpretat...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain...

What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, ...