History of Science

A political history of twentieth-century oceanographyOceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists....

After decades of painstaking planning, NASA's first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler space telescope, was launched in 2009 from Ca...

This volume launches a new series of contemporary conversations about scientific classification. Most philosophical conversations about kinds have ...

No other research organization dominates the field of science in its country to the degree that the Soviet Academy of Sciences does. The coming to ...

At the end of the Second World War, Germany lay at the mercy of its occupiers, all of whom launched programmes of scientific and technological expl...

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For exampl...

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For exampl...

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of ma...

How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how...

A groundbreaking history of fengshuis roles in public life and law during Chinas last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally mean...

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shape...

Longlisted for the National Book Award 2024'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a l...

Von den Dinosauriern sind nur einige wenige versteinerte Knochen und Fußspuren erhalten. Dennoch sieht man sie quicklebendig im Kinderzimmer und au...

A giant of the discipline of biogeography and co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace was the most famous naturalist in the world...

The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elit...

The work examines the interaction of scientific practices and religious lifestyle using the example of southern German monasteries in the second ha...

The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been up...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...

Thomas S. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of...