History of Science

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standa...

As a backyard naturalist and river enthusiast, Henry David Thoreau was keenly aware of the many ways in which humans had altered the waterways and ...

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwid...

An eyewitness to profound change affecting marine environments on the Newfoundland coast, Antony Adler argues that the history of our relationship ...

Der Band dokumentiert ein Lebensprojekt: Für Alexander von Humboldt war die Geographie der Pflanzen empirisches Forschungsprogramm und ästhetische ...

Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled...

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular sci...

Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Wh...

The surprising history of the scientific methodfrom an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of stepsand the rise of psychology in the n...

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einsteins general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scient...

The award-winning former editor of Science News shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmologythe existen...

A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life SelectionSuccinct, accessible, and remarkably timely...

A Physics Today Best Book of the YearA Forbes For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life SelectionSuccinct, accessible, and remarkably timely...

For readers interested in the development of major scientific concepts and the role of science in the western world, here is the first conceptually...

Offers a unique combination of informative text, magnificent illustrations and stylish design Examines the 100 most important discoveries since t...

A craze for intricate metaphors, referred to as conceits, permeated all forms of communication in seventeenth-century Italy and Spain, reshaping re...