History of Science

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...

Dieses Buch bietet eine erfrischend neue Perspektive auf existentielle Fragen und setzt die Erkenntnisse moderner Wissenschaft widerspruchsfrei mit...

This textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis, from the earliest known cryptographic systems of 2,500 years ago up ...

In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical p...

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday...

How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists h...

This edited collection explores Dante Alighieris contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times. The...

Dieses Buch beschreibt und erklärt die Welt der Teilchenbeschleuniger und die Physik, die sie erforschen. Die Darstellung ist nicht technisch (E=mc...

This volume focuses on the correspondence of Henri Poincar?, the renowned turn-of-the century French scientist and philosopher. Drawing on material...

In Vor dem Big Bang entfaltet sich eine tiefgründige und faszinierende Erzählung über die Ursprünge und die Entwicklung des Universums. Ausgangspun...

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is sciences relation to democracy? This introduc...

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is sciences relation to democracy? This introduc...

An essential introductory textbook that shows students how science came to be such an important aspect of modern culture. Lively and readable, it p...

Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behin...

A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China...

A Best Book of 2023 by Inc.Social psychologist and Stanford professor Brian Lowery presents a provocative, powerful theory of identity, arguing tha...

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of p...

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientifi...

This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin. ...

Many of the world's most renowned and exciting ornamental plants--including magnolias, roses, rhododendrons, tree peonies, lilies, and blue poppies...

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising o...

Questo libro fornisce una panoramica completa dello sviluppo della fisica dei raggi cosmici, con considerazioni storiche e didattiche, dalle prime ...

On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks...

By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macro...

In Baroque Science Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instea...

Race and Photography studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the science of race, what many to...

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South Amer...

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the...

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symboli...

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Agewhen there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteenand ex...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that pe...

Picture your twenty-first birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? Now step back: how clear are those memories? Should...

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gla...

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German acad...

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In...

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, ...

Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical--with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled ...

In this classic worka blend of memoir, social criticism, and political analysis that remains relevant todaythe first Black Congresswoman to serve i...

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and ...

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie...