History of Science

Addressing the technological opportunities and challenges of the 21st century, Introduction to Philosophy of Technology offers the most up-to-date ...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and tran...

People of all ages are fascinated by dinosaurs. And they have a lot of questions about them too: When and where did dinosaurs live? Are they mentio...

This fascinating volume resulted from one mans frustration with the series of whitewashed obituaries and laudations he had to endure in his long ca...

For the first time, this book compiles original documents from Science for the People, the most important radical science movement in U.S. history....

During the twentieth century, ecology evolved from a collection of natural history facts to a rigorous, analytical discipline with a rich body of t...

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be d...

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth ...

Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizar...

The idea of elegance in science is not necessarily a familiar one, but it is an important one. The use of the term is perhaps most clear-cut in mat...

Whereas scholarly study of Creationism usually places it in the context of religion and the history or philosophy of science, The Creationist Debat...

In his new book, Transit of Venus, 1631 to the Present, Dr Nick Lomb - an astronomer at the Sydney Observatpry and the author of the Australian Sky...

In May 1904, the residents of Halcyona small utopian community on Californias central coastinvited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of t...

Science at the Frontiers: Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Science brings new voices to the study of the history and philosophy of sci...

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere ...

The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies ...