History of Science

Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every for...

Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patche...

Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveal...

A prominent member of a flourishing scientific and literary community, William Nicholson, author, patent agent and civil engineer, founded a widely...

In the twenty-first century, we take the means to measure time for granted, without contemplating the sophisticated concepts on which our time scal...

From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was...

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (17431820) accompanied Captain James Cook (17281779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour v...

In this book, Erick Raphael Jiménez examines Aristotle's concept of mind (nous), a key concept in Aristotelian psychology, metaphysics, and epistem...

From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central dis...

Carl Gustav Jung has always been a popular but never a fashionable thinker. His ground-breaking theories about dream interpretation and psychologic...

This is the first critical edition of Epistles 15-21 of the Brethren of Purity, which explore the natural sciences and correspond to Aristotle's gr...

From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the...

The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic politica...

Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of w...

Why in the world are we paying for all this basic research? The answer to this question becomes clear in this romp through the seemingly useless wo...

History and Philosophy of Biology summarizes the major philosophical ideas that have attended the development of science in general and of biology ...