History of Science

With a new introduction placing Plato's great work at the heart of ancient concepts of human organization and justice, this new edition of The Repu...

The Interpretation of Dreams is an essential work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freuds impressive outpu...

The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern Chin...

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or economy of nature) from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. Th...

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resou...

This Atlas of the History of Modern Science functions as a textbook to help the student, by means of diagrams and flowcharts, to better understand ...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

Visceral.Wall Street Journal     Illuminating.Publishers Weekly     Heroic.Science The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautifu...

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the b...

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poisis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely exp...

Recovered in 1755 during excavations in the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, the prosciutto sundial is the earliest known portable Roman sundial. P...

How Maoism Was Made focuses on the history of the early years in China after 1949, featuring new scholarship by academics across Europe and North A...

This is a study of science in Muslim society from its rise in the 8th century to the efforts of 19th-century Muslim thinkers and reformers to regai...

The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow...

Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in decidedly interesting times in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionar...

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary...

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory proble...

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts...

Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen is a translation of Johann Guinters textbook as revised and annotated by Guinters student, ...