History of Science

‘Human zoos’, forgotten symbols of the colonial era, have been totally repressed in our collective memory. In these ‘anthropo-zoological’ exhibitio...

This magnificent book is the first comprehensive history of statistics from its beginnings around 1700 to its emergence as a distinct and mature di...

In this impressively researched and highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and indus...

Systems of units still fail to attract the philosophical attention they deserve, but this could change with the current reform of the International...

Published in 1935: This is the first attempt to give a full portrait if the mind of the 16th and 17th centuries. Detailed accounts are given of all...

The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowled...

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang. While our current ma...

First published in 1975. This study examines one of the popular scientific philosophies of the nineteenth-century. The first part deals with the re...

Fractions are everywhere and yet most of us learn only basic and rather dry facts about fractions in primary school. This book makes fractions come...

This volume is dedicated to questions about the nature and method of metaphysics in Classical German Philosophy. Its chapters offer original invest...

This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kind...

The first full-length study of animals in Jane Austen, Barbara K. Seeber’s book situates the author’s work within the serious debates about human-a...

In the 1920s and ’30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotio...

'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligen...

The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowled...

Thomas Nail approaches the theory of objects historically in order to tell a completely new story in which objects themselves are the true agents o...

The revolution in twentieth century physics has changed the way we think about space, time and matter and our own place in the universe. It has off...

The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Chri...

Astronomy, perhaps the first of the sciences, was already well developed by the time of Christ. Seventeen centuries later, after Newton showed that...

The Nobel Prizes is the official yearbook of the Nobel Foundation. This edition provides extensive information about the 2017 laureates: their Nobe...

Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expande...

'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material. A text that could only be written by t...

'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material. A text that could only be written by t...

In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfig...

At first glance, the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, or Akademgorodok, appears as an outlier in academic excellence. This 'science city' is renowned...

First published in 1960, this book discusses the ethical implications of the view of man’s nature and his place in the biological world. C. H. Wadd...

The processes in a single living cell are akin to that of a city teeming with molecular inhabitants that move, communicate, cooperate, and compete....

This collection of original essays offers a comprehensive examination of scientific progress, which has been a central topic in recent debates in p...

In Experimental Practice Dimitris Papadopoulos explores the potential for building new forms of political and social movements through the reconfig...

Agricultural Economists in Early Twentieth-Century Italy describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of I...

Published in 1971: This book represents the Posthumous works of the author, as well as lectures on Philosophy, Astronomy, and Science.

Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively,...

This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of...