History of Science

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the phys...

Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century. The book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised...

In one of history's greatest experiments, a brilliant Greek, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the distance around the earth to a few percent of th...

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of Albert the Greats (c. 11931280) notion of virtus formativa, a shaping force responsible for...

This is a set offering the Springer books Alessandro Piccolominis Early Astronomical Works: I. An Exploration of Their Cultural Significance (ISBN ...

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s. It looks at all the...

Naming the Local uncovers how Koreans domesticated foreign medical novelties on their own terms, while simultaneously modifying the Korea-specific ...

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys complete edition of Hippocrates...

The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the col...

Human history hinges on the battle to confront our most dangerous enemies - the half-dozen diseases responsible for killing almost all of mankind. ...

In 1643/4 the once-famous Francis Cleyn painted the unhappy young heir of Corfe Castle, John Bankes, and his tutor, Dr Maurice Williams. The painte...

Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvanias Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. ...

In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define ...

Steven Weinberg shares his candid thoughts, in his own words, on theoretical physics and cosmology, along with personal anecdotes and recollections...

This book covers the history of kinematics from the Greeks to the 20th century. It shows that the subject has its roots in geometry, mechanics and ...

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the...

Ausgehend von der Zeit Newtons befasst sich diese Fortsetzung des Springer-Buches Unser Platz im Universum: Astronomie anhand alter Entdeckungen v...

Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck. Or architecture ...

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the c...

For centuries, smallpox devastated humanity, killing millions and leaving many scarred. In 1980, the World Health Organization declared smallpox er...

This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20t...