History of Science

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...

The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, yet it is notoriously difficu...

Using the Parallel Lives approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William Sheehan contrasts the lives and re...

Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signsincluding comets, strange clouds, halos,...

There are arguably few areas of science more fiercely contested than the question of what makes us who we are. Are we products of our environments ...

To enact the books central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content...

This is the first account of Britains plans for industrial development in its Caribbean colonies something that historians have usually said Brita...

René Descartes: The Complete Correspondence in English Translation is the first complete English translation of the extant correspondence of the po...

The Collective Spirit (1925) lays down a rough outline of what science can tell us as to the progress of evolution, and criticises the various inte...

An insiders account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars they orbitAre we alone in the u...

From the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural scienceA century ago, thoughtful people ...

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the phys...

Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised...

In one of history's greatest experiments, a brilliant Greek, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the distance around the earth to a few percent of th...

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Greats (c. 11931280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for...

This is a set offering the Springer books Alessandro Piccolominis Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance (ISBN ...

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s. It looks at all the...

Naming the Local uncovers how Koreans domesticated foreign medical novelties on their own terms, while simultaneously modifying the Korea-specific ...

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys complete edition of Hippocrates...

The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the col...

Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies - the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. ...

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvanias Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. ...

In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define ...

Steven Weinberg shares his candid thoughts, in his own words, on theoretical physics and cosmology, along with personal anecdotes and recollections...

This book covers the history of kinematics from the Greeks to the 20th century. It shows that the subject has its roots in geometry, mechanics and ...

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the...

Ausgehend von der Zeit Newtons befasst sich diese Fortsetzung des Springer-Buches Unser Platz im Universum: Astronomie anhand alter Entdeckungen v...

Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck. Or architecture ...

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the c...

For centuries, smallpox devastated humanity, killing millions and leaving many scarred. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox er...

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20t...

This book offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabends take on topics such as realism, empiricism, pluralism, materialism, and incommens...

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of article...

What was philosophy as Descartes found it around 1620? What was philosophy like before Descartes reformed it after 1637? What features of philosoph...