History of Science

In Air's Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how div...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the worlds first scientific superstarWith graceful lucidity...

What can we learn when we study people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question s...

Can todays society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance...

Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, had a dream in which a tree sprouted from his navel. As the tree grew, its shade covered the earth; as Os...

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within h...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, pro...

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the e...

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for explorato...

Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him one of the few sc...

Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the worlds most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably...

BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The intervie...