History of Science

This volume of Osiris integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusi...

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines ...

A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of...

Robert P. Crease looks at questions about when a scientific discovery becomes accepted fact, who decides this and how citizens should interact with...

A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Rev...

The Story of Science guides us to the original texts that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos and ourselves. Whether referenc...

There are many who believe Moses parted the Red Sea and Jesus came back from the dead. Others are certain that exorcisms occur, ghosts haunt attics...

Since the late Stone Age, approximately 10 percent of humans have been left-handed, yet for most of human history left-handedness has been stigmati...

This fascinating narrative history of math in America introduces readers to the diverse and vibrant people behind pivotal moments in the nation''s ...

'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the ...

Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly often it is as much down to chance as a single person''s brilliance. ...

Charles Darwins discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On...

Energy is at the heart of physics and of huge importance to society and yet no book exists specifically to explain it, and in simple terms. In trac...

This updated and augmented third edition of this landmark encyclopedia contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the...

In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about dea...

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he wa...

Through Francesco Bianchini, the 'greatest Italian of his time' this book explores the exciting meeting of science, history, and politics in early ...

In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word eugenics to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the law...

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