History of Science

This volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen. Van Dalen was the first historian of Islamic astr...

The discourse and practice of science are deeply connected to explicit and implicit narratives of nature. However, nature has been understood in di...

This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of c...

Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs present renderings of the heavens, proof that we have...

Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world’s most ingenious and influential scientists. Nonetheless, he remains misund...

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistem...

Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the sc...

Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical per...

This book, first available in 1994, was published to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertz’s death at the terribly young age ...

In 1938, one year into the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese military found itself in dire medical straits. Soldiers were suffering from deadly...

The period in Europe known as the Belle Epoque was a time of vibrant and unsettling modernization in social and political organization, in artistic...

In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often u...

We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just s...

Published in 1994: This book is to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertz’s death at the terribly young age of thirty-six. The...

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful me...

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors...

Hume’s Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls ‘the sc...

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors...

First published in 1932. The widespread influence of Gregor Johann Mendel’s work and his own remarkable destiny combine to arouse interest in the p...

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exploration of humanity’s relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men remi...