History of Science

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

This book is dedicated to Einsteins personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over variou...

Why did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making ...

Why did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einsteins gen...

Der erste Tagebuchband der amerikanischen Reise Alexander von Humboldts gibt Einblicke in die Überfahrt von Europa nach Amerika, den Aufenthalt auf...

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our postCold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in ...

The phrase public intellectual is much bandied about. Just a few real heavyweights in the world merit the title, and Steven Weinberg is preeminent ...

Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' ...

Dieses Buch macht die überraschende Vielfalt der Personen und Tätigkeiten in der Radioaktivitätsforschung sichtbar. Dabei wird der Begriff der wiss...

According to Robert John Russell, one of the foremost scholars on relating Christian theology and science, the topic of time and eternity is centra...

Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen is a translation of Johann Guinters textbook as revised and annotated by Guinters student, ...

During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for...

Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-ch...

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, rac...

Making Sense of World History is a comprehensive and accessible textbook that helps students understand the key themes of world history within a ch...

The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science. In accordance with the intensification of the Cold War, many scientific talents were mobiliz...

AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended. - Francis Fukuyama, Politi...

The Culture of Diagram is about visual thinking. Exploring a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the book foregrounds diag...