History of Science

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discuss...

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius...

Following his participation in James Cook's circumnavigation in HMS Endeavour (1768-71), Joseph Banks developed an extensive global network of scie...

In this short book, Evans interrogates the implications of VRs re-emergence into the media mainstream, critiquing the notion of a VR revolution by ...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecolog...

Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. T...

For more than two hundred years the Royal Institution has been at the centre of scientific research and has also provided a cultural location for s...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to ...

This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main...

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmac...

This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological conseq...

First published in 2005, this encyclopedia demonstrates that the millennium from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance was a period of gr...

Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent u...

This book presents an interpretation of Kants Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kants philosophy together with those of t...

Published in 1935: This is the first attempt to give a full portrait if the mind of the 16th and 17th centuries. Detailed accounts are given of all...

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-pro...

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006...

Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provid...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

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

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science ...

First published in 1997, this volume expands the analytical philosophical tradition in the face of parochial Anglo-American philosophical interests...

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius...

This book reveals how, when, where, and why vitalism and its relationship to new scientific theories, philosophies and concepts of energy became se...

This title was first published in 2003. Hewett Cottrell Watson was a pioneer in a new science not yet defined in Victorian times - ecology - and wa...

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday...

This title was first published in 2000: A manifestation of mass hysteria, a compensation for physical or emotional deprivation, or an alternative t...

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European s...

This book collects a variety of short essays on Stephen Gaukrogers thought, by leading scholars, both senior and junior. Stephen Gaukroger (1950202...

Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific ...

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Galileo Galileis engagement with the Almagest, Claudius Ptolemys second-century scientific work on...

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 is a compelling exploration of socialist a...

This book is the first complete biography of George Minchin Minchin (18451914), professor of applied mathematics at the Royal Indian Engineering Co...

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho a...