Science

Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and the broader...

Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science and his works contributed to shaping Western intellect...

Failure Analysis of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion serves as a complete guide to corrosion failure analysis with an emphasis on the diagnos...

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which ch...

This book is a study of relativism as a dominant intellectual preoccupation of our time. Relativism asks how we are to find a way out of intractabl...

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue. Norden's text, a series of dialogues between a f...

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the followi...

This edited collection charts the development of, and prospects for, conceiving knowledge as a social phenomenon. The origin, aims and growth of th...

Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new colle...

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which fo...

Professionals in many disciplines, from archeology to forensic science and anthropology, must be able to identify organic and inorganic fibers and ...

This book investigates the nature and relevance of conjunctive explanations in the context of science and religion. It explores questions concernin...

This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism—an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal cla...