History of Science

Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this second collection of article...

What was philosophy as Descartes found it around 1620? What was philosophy like before Descartes reformed it after 1637? What features of philosoph...

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...