History of Science

A fascinating, fact-filled, lively exploration of the philosophy and psychology of beauty and the evolution of plastic surgery. We humans have been...

A National Book Award finalist, the mesmerizing, landmark illustrated biography Radioactive is finally available in a stunning paperback edition. T...

An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat,...

Throughout the Roman Empire Cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities...

The waterfront was the key to New York City''s growth and prosperity.For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the countr...

'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf po...

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldvie...

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science fou...

Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today ...

A guided tour through the universe--and beyond! From the sun's super-hot core to the many moons of Neptune, we're traveling to the far reaches of o...

National BestsellerGives you all the context you need to understand the science of immunity. ... An Elegant Defense left me with [a] sense of awe. ...

In the summer of 1878 three ruthless and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a total solar eclipse. One sought to discove...

In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of ...

Leonardo's enduring fascination with waterfrom its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineeringFormless, mutable, transp...

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there wa...

Marvelous. . . . Wonderfully imaginative. . . . Sparkling. -Wall Street Journal Stunning. . . . Read this book: in equal measure it will give yo...