History of science

This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean.

This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model.

How should science be written?

A breathtakingly illustrated look at botanical spirals and the scientists who puzzled over themCharles Darwin was driven to distraction by plant spirals, growing so exasperated that he once begged a friend to explain the mystery ';if you wish to save me from a miserable death.

Originally published in 1972.

“A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters―cryptids, as they are called―and the people who pursue them .

This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin?

Offers a distinctive history of money as an everyday social technology in the Dutch Republic from 1600 to 1850.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas.

From grocery store to doctor's office, alternative medicine is everywhere.

Traces historical developments in scientific conceptions of physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolutionary biology during the mid-twentieth century Life Out of Balance focuses on a period in history when new ideas of self-regulation, adaptation, and fitness became central to a variety of biological disciplines.

The first nuclear engineers emerged from the Manhattan Project in the USA, UK and Canada, but remained hidden behind security for a further decade.

This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences.

This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750).

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking).

In Natural Law and Civil Sovereignty new research by leading international scholars is brought to bear on a single crucial issue: the role of early modern natural law doctrines in reconstructing the relations between moral right and civil authority in the face of profound religious and political conflict.

The 1859 publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species evoked a spectrum of responses, from fervent endorsement to vehement opposition, because of the theory of natural selections implications for Western theological and cultural orthodoxy.

In March 1979, a prototype of a 'Compact Disc (CD) digital audio system' was publicly presented and demonstrated to an audience of about 300 journalists at Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

A philosophical examination of the deep past, and how paleontologists, archaeologists and geologists tell its story.

This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort to achieve universal HIV treatment has shifted away from its initial focus on the excessive human suffering precipitated by the epidemic.

In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This book shows that astronomical discovery is a complex and ongoing process comprising various stages of research, interpretation and understanding.

In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to study the planets environment from space.

These articles are devoted to the two main aspects of medieval warfare: men and technology.

The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

This work presents and philosophically analyzes the early modern and modern history of the theory concerning the soul of the world, anima mundi.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A "e;compelling chronicle"e; of the science, politics, and business of blood (The Wall Street Journal).

A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past.

In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum, to the hydrostatical pressure, which is related to the gravity.

This volume, explores the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and newer essays.

This volume brings John Milton''s Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo.

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East.

In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones.

This book answers how openness became the defining principle of the information age, examining the history of information networks.

This book introduces physics students and teachers to the historical development of the kinetic theory of gases, by providing a collection of the most important contributions by Clausius, Maxwell and Boltzmann, with introductory surveys explaining their significance.

Explore how Western-trained Asian-born scientists'' return migrations are fueling and fueled by Asia''s rise in the global scientific field.

This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union.

This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

The female authors highlighted in this monograph represent a special breed of science writer, women who not only synthesized the science of their day (often drawing upon their own direct experience in the laboratory, field, classroom, and/or public lecture hall), but used their works to simultaneously educate, entertain, and, in many cases, evangelize.

The remarkable story of a "e;talking"e; chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "e;NOVA"e; documentary.

Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them.

The search for life on Mars-and the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars?

This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum.

This book provides a detailed history of theUnited States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics(USNC/TAM) of the US National Academies, the relationship between the USNC/TAMand IUTAM, and a review of the many mechanicians who developed the field overtime.