History of Science

Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, o...

This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What...

A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his earl...

When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him...

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents and human error involved in our pursuit of asteroi...

Scientific Practices in European History, 12001800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as C...

This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin? Like a detective piecing tog...

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern Eur...

This book investigates the development of mechanical sciences with a focus on epistemological issues. It examines the precursors and fundamental mi...

This open access book provides a fresh perspective on analysis and synthesis across several areas of inquiry. The two operations form a primary bas...

Spurred by their commanders during the Korean War to be tigers, aggressive and tenacious American fighter pilots charged headlong into packs of fir...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politi...

This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the ref...

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a si...

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion. The book discusses the condition...

This seventh edition of A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications traces the history of psychology from antiquity through ...

The essays and original visualizations collected in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds explore the relationships among natural things - ranging ...

This title was first published in 2000: In a life of only 52 years, Fleeming Jenkin established his reputation as a pioneer in the new world of ele...

First published in 1997, this second edition of this bibliography contains more than half as many entries again as the original selection of 1966. ...

Jeremiah Joyce was one of the accused in the famous Treason Trials of 1794 which marked the suppression of radical agitation in Britain for the ens...

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines. They grew from minor sciences, with little status in 1900, and now occ...