History of Science

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...

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...