History of Science

We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathemati...

This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathema...

The evolutionist Ernst Mayr considered August Weismann one of the great biologists of all time. Yet the man who formulated the germ plasm theorytha...

On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was ...

This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us thro...

This book provides realistic answers to hotly debated scientific topics: Science is about quantitative aspects of natural realities (physical, chem...

A falling apple inspired Isaac Newtons insight into the law of gravityor so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing questi...

A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new socia...

In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of scien...

Best known outside the scientific community for the Nobel Prize in Physics he won in 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was exceptional amongst scientis...

'This is a thought-provoking book that would be of interest to anyone wanting to ponder the concept of time, and to develop more critical thinking ...

'This is a thought-provoking book that would be of interest to anyone wanting to ponder the concept of time, and to develop more critical thinking ...

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was...

This is the fifteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the li...

We like to think that science always illuminates. But the disturbing persistence of the concept of biological determinism-the false idea that human...

Science, like the universe, is expanding and accelerating. This book outlines the many gifts that science has bestowed upon our quality of life ran...

Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archi...

Isaac Newton''s influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radical new theory of light and created a calculu...

Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk ...

This new volume, and its accompanying microsite, is the first scholarly publication and English translation of the Schoner Sammelband, a collection...

In 1868, The Times reported that poisons contained in dyes were affecting the public's health. A doctor informed a London magistrate that brilliant...

American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the Crying Indian, who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of Th...

There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it. With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven S...

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years....

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bol...

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...

This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) a...

The symposium on which this book is based originated after Tom Strom organized a successful American Chemical Society (ACS) symposium in March 2016...

This book is indexed in Chemical Abstracts ServiceThis book offers a comprehensive sketch of the tools used in material research and the rich and d...

This new edition of Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester is the most comprehensive scholarly edition of any of Leonardo's manuscripts. It contains a...

The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a dev...

South Africa is renowned for its wildlife and environmental conservation in iconic national parks such as the Kruger, one of the world's first form...

This collection of essays studies the movement of texts in the Mediterranean basin in the medieval period from historical and philological perspect...