History of Science

Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exp...

Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exp...

Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disabilit...

This volume covers one of the most thrilling two-year periods in twentieth-century physics, as matrix mechanicsdeveloped chiefly by W. Heisenberg, ...

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human...

This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the anna...

Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harr...

Of the 121,000 people on donor lists in the U.S., over 100,000 need kidney transplants and thousands die each year while waiting. Bioprinting aspir...

A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to...

Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through hu...

While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized ...

A wondrous story of scientific endeavorprobing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the...

The story of the conflict thesis between science and religionthe notion of perennial conflict or warfare between the twois part of our modern self-...

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic facts that created a mathematical panic about a looming populati...

The essays in this volume explore how two domains of human experience and actionreligion and technologyare implicated in each other. Contrary to co...

We have 118 known chemical elements as our palette in our context of sustaining our world. Our context is considered in terms of the four spheres o...

John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the twe...

In Bound by Muscle, Andrew Brown details the lives and achievements of two physiologists, Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977) and Otto Fritz Meyerhof...

How the concept of deep time began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this int...

A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of realityWhat is the true nature of r...

In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twent...

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Co...

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Co...

This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosoph...

This book provides a guide to the people, places, artifacts, events, terminology, scientific concepts, groups, critical documents, and code phrases...

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century....

In June of 1925, almost a hundred years ago, Werner Heisenberg spent ten days on the island of Heligoland - thanks to his hayfever.  This respite a...

This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each sourc...

This volume contains 8 papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. It showcases rigorously r...

This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical an...

This volume presents comprehensive investigations into various facets of observational astronomy during the medieval Islamic period, spanning from ...

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by...

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth cen...

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a h...

In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain. The years between 1800 an...

What is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels's a...

This book marks the centenary of the remarkable invention of an opto-mechanical planetarium projector, the Zeiss Mk I. In May 1925, the first publi...

Written by its former Director, this book presents a historical account of the famous Arecibo Observatory and its 305-meter radio astronomical tele...

Why did early modern Europeans hunt for witches? Were these persecutions a shrewd tool to oppress women or the poor, or were they just a way of mak...