History of Science

How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science.In 1749, the cel...

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space. In this ...

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomide In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration be...

As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose.There is no weapon as insidious, as sedu...

'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism ... Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' - DUNCAN BELL, N...

An Independent Climate Book of the Year 2023 In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Cli...