History of science

The planets fascinate us, and naturally we care about our own Earth, and things like how well we can forecast the weather and whether climate is really changing.

Our current concept of matter, one of scientific research's greatest successes, represents a long journey, from questions posed during the birth of philosophy in Ancient Greece to recent advances in physics and chemistry, including Quantum Physics.

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

'The statuary and monuments catalogued in this impressive body of work are accompanied by descriptions of the subjects their work and achievements.

1912 sucht der junge sozialistische jüdische Wiener Dozent Leo Spitzer (1887-1960) Kontakt zum alten charismatischen, aber konservativen Professor Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), woraus sich eine für beide Beteiligten intensive Korrespondenz bis ins hohe Alter des Letzteren ergibt.

This book strips away the myths surrounding the famed scientist George Washington Carver and portrays him as a brilliant, creative man who nonetheless possessed very human peculiarities and frailties.

Reproduced in print for the first time, this book combines both volumes of Barnard''s Atlas.

This new edition of Viral Pandemics illuminates how the increasing emergence of novel viruses has combined with intensifying global interconnectedness to create an escalating spiral of viral disease.

The Routledge History of American Science provides an essential companion to the most significant themes within the subject area.

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This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature.

This two-volume catalog is the first in-depth investigation of comets that were reported since the 17th century but not confirmed and subsequently lost.

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory.

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Shedding new light on Einstein''s study of unified field theory, this book will interest physicists, historians and philosophers of science.

This innovative study charts the beginnings, history and fate of Interferon - one of modern medicine's most famous and infamous drugs.

Since the 1960s, astrophysical discoveries have blossomed, due to the emergence of powerful and new observational tools.

Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present.

This volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

The book presents thirty great Chinese inventions, both ancient and modern, which are original, distinct, have made outstanding contributions and had extensive influence in China and around the globe.

In Victorian Britain an array of writers captured the excitement of new scientific discoveries, and enticed young readers and listeners into learning their secrets, by converting introductory explanations into quirky, charming, and imaginative fairy-tales; forces could be fairies, dinosaurs could be dragons, and looking closely at a drop of water revealed a soup of monsters.

Collected essays from the New York Times-bestselling author's celebrated columns in Scientific American.

We live in an age in which one can easily think that our generation has invented and discovered almost everything; but the truth is quite the opposite.

This book sheds light on the originality and historical significance of women's philosophical, moral, political and scientific ideas in Italy and early modern Europe.

A collection of essays - including 3 that have never been published before - by one of the leading figures in cultural history.

The philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein continues to have a profound influence that transcends barriers between philosophical disciplines and reaches beyond philosophy itself.

Science and Ethics examines the ideology that denies the relevance of ethics to science.

It is no secret that twentieth-century Britain was governed through a culture of secrecy, and secrecy was particularly endemic in military research and defence policy surrounding biological and chemical warfare.

This book contains new translations and a new analysis of the procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, the earliest known form of mathematical astronomy of the ancient world.

As ice retreated from Britain 15,000 years ago, a host of large mammals including reindeer, wild horses, wooly mammoths, moose, wolves, brown bears, lynxes and wolverines established itself in Britain.

Cosmology is an unusual science with an unusual history.

The British Book Trade and Spanish American Independence is a pioneering study of the export of books from Britain to early-independent Spanish America, which considers all phases of production, distribution, reading, and re-writing of British books in the region, and explores the role that these works played in the formation of national identities in the new countries.

This book offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural eraOver the course of five million years, our primate ancestors evolved from a modest population of sub-Saharan apes into the globally dominant species Homo sapiens.

Careers in astronomy for women (as in other sciences) were a rarity in Britain and Ireland until well into the twentieth century.

"e;A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters-cryptids, as they are called-and the people who pursue them .

This book provides a breadth of innovative and impactful research in the field computational intelligence led by women investigators.

This book is composed of chapters that focus specifically on technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science).

This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo's life and thought-his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as "e;father of modern science.

This book brings together about 2,500 quotations on various topics of interest to scientists and engineers, including students of STEM disciplines.

Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history.

This book is about our quest over the centuries, from ancient Greece onwards, for pattern in the rich diversity of life.

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) was a medical reformer in a great age of reform-an occasional and reluctant vivisectionist, a theistic popularizer of natural science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a surgeon, an artist, and a teacher.

To Feed a Nation takes the reader on a journey over the centuries, describing the slow and arduous development of Australian food technology and science from before European settlement to the latter half of the twentieth century.

Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the 'late' early modern period, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century.

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850.

This book explores narratives of vaccine hesitancy using samples from the UK press, and looks at the ways these have changed between the 1950s and the present.

The Humanities in Transition explores how the basic components of the digital age will have an impact on the most trusted theories of humanists.