History of Science

A close look at Günter Blobels transformative contributions to molecular cell biology. The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the f...

This book, explores the conceptual foundations of Einstein's theory of relativity: the fascinating, yet tangled, web of philosophical, mathematical...

The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Tradit...

The first book to map William Jamess preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth of his work.   William James is know...

Goethe als Naturforscher findet bei deutschen und ausländischen Naturforschern und Medizinern des 19. Jahrhunderts durchgängig Beachtung und führt ...

Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured agai...

Our knowledge of our solar system has passed the point of no return. Increasingly, it seems possible that scientists will soon discover how life is...

In The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a...

A classic work in the history of science, and described as a good book on rocket stuffthats a really fun one by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers w...

In The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a...

The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ran...

Over 4.5 billion years, Earths climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate recent past, the planet swung from one extreme to an...

Explores the photography of climate changePhotographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks ...

As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and RaritiesIn this beautifully written an...

The Scientific Revolution began with the publication of Copernicus heliocentric theory describing the Sun as the center of our solar system and all...

Instruments for solving astronomical problems are part of a continuous tradition reaching far back through the Middle Ages into the Hellenistic wor...

Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over linguistic concerns to matter...

Il fuoco di SantAntonio è una malattia, certo! Ma quale? Per noi Italiani è sicuramente lHerpes zoster; ma è sempre stato così? Ebbene, no! SantAn...