History of Science

How did our modern picture of the universe come into being? Masters of the Universe tells this fascinating story in an unusual format that blends f...

Reveals some of the thrilling developments that have transformed biology since the 1960s.  Highlights the challenges ahead for biologists but sugge...

What did the writer of Genesis mean by the first day? Is it a literal week or a series of time periods? If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion ...

This book introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in all the five boroughs of New York City - statues, busts, pl...

This is the first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400. Alchemists did more th...

In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified ...

Isaac Newton published little but wrote hundreds of manuscripts, the bulk of them on alchemy, prophecy and theology. His writings on the Temple ...

Developed just after the close of the Civil War, the Springfield Gas Machine was a unique commercial and domestic gas lighting system marketed for ...

In May 1904, the residents of Halcyon-a small utopian community on California''s central coast-invited their neighbors to attend the grand opening ...

In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base m...

This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite spee...

Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider''s The Invention of Surgery is an in-depth biography of the p...

A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when ...

For the first time since a 5th century Greek physician gave the name cancer (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described in Egyptian ...

This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (18381915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twe...

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistan...

What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein''s General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always...

Based on a detailed study of rich archival sources, Model experts explores practices of model production and display, and reveals the often invisib...

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Cop...

Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent, conspiracy theorist or pragmatist, James Mahaffey''s books have serv...

This book is open access under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The making of British bioethics provides the first in-depth study of how philosophers, lawyer...

While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews ...

John J. McKay brings together dozens of original documents and illustrations to show how an odd assortment of characters solved the mystery of the ...

In The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective, William Burns places the Scientific Revolution, its causes and effects, in a global context. It...

The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture...

The relationship between humans and domestic animals has changed in dramatic ways over the ages, and those transitions have had profound consequenc...

This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late...

In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, ...

Harold C. Urey (1893-1981) was one of the most famous American scientists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his discove...

When we want advice, we often casually speak of reaching out to others to get some feedback. But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase ...

An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance, More ...

Many cities around the world could claim to have a rich scientific history. However, between 1550 and 1800, London fostered its very own particular...

Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a respon...

On our breakfast tables and in our bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins b...

Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends in...

From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science pl...

'Freeman Dyson has had an extraordinary range of interests, serious activity and influence. This is reflected in the choice of topics in these essa...

In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Keplers Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his...

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous g...

In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. ...