History of Science

Longlisted for the 2024 SHNH Natural History Book Prize An exploration of plant wisdom, from the Southern Mountain Tea Flower to the Dawn RedwoodCh...

In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped e...

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

DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...

Where do we stand with the Old Testament and our extra-biblical sources in terms of the history of thought and science? The question of how people ...

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 ...

Since humans first looked up at the stars, astronomy has had a particular ability to stir the imagination and challenge the thinking of scientists ...

A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aim...

Most things you know about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widesp...

Edmond Halley is known far and wide thanks largely to the comet bearing his name, the nature of which he predicted in 1705. While that discovery is...

The eleventh volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall covers the period from January 1869 to the end of February 1871 and contains 427 letters ...

This book takes readers to Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains, to see what is happening to their ice, snow and permafrost. Ice and snow ...

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of...

Whether you are planning a road trip or looking to engage with history from the comfort of your couch, the second edition of America's Scientific T...

This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this hi...