History of Science

The Derby Philosophers focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin,...

In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just ...

 A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages“In Mr. Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way.”—Alan Hirshf...

The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them ac...

One Time Fits All provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuse...

We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devi...

'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James' New York Post 'James writes with infectious enthusiasm and optimism' Kirkus Reviews 'A scienc...

‘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...