History of Science

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the foundations of spacetime physics. It features original essays written by world-class experts in th...

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive...

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "existenti...

Part of a two-volume series, this book offers a multicentric perspective on the history of psychology, situating its development in relation to dev...

Broadcasting in Ireland (1978) outlines the historical and sociological background of Ireland to place the progress of its broadcasting service in ...

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the ...

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive...

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.In Animals in the Wor...

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead...

The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the ...

The 29th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. This volume concludes with a text on Erasmus Darwin, grandfa...

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that per...

The 27th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th c...

This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on t...

The common focus of the essays in this book is the debate on the nature of science - often referred to by contemporaries as ’natural knowledge’ - i...

The studies brought together in this second collection of articles by Paul Kunitzsch continue the lines of research evident in his previous volume ...

This volume has two primary aims: to trace the traditions and changes in methods, concepts, and ideas that brought forth the logical empiricists’ p...

Part of a two-volume series, this book offers a multicentric perspective on the history of psychology, situating its development in relation to dev...

This book is a tribute to Paul Erd\H{o}s, the wandering mathematician once described as the "prince of problem solvers and the absolute monarch of ...

The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists. Ov...

Rebel in Radio (1973) looks at the story of WQXR, the rebel New York commercial radio station. It examines WQXR’s place in broadcasting history, an...

The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr. Schumpeter". A figure in a rare class w...

The only work of its kind, this dictionary is uniquely focused on the history of applied science, including medical and biomedical applications. It...

This book comprises nine essays, selected from Roy MacLeod's work on the social history of Victorian science, and is concerned with the analysis of...