History of science

Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients.

Scientific and historical studies in the Nineteenth-century challenged Christian believers to restate their faith in ways which took account of new knowledge.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G.

Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences.

Popular science readers embrace epics-the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social.

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "e;priest of God,"e; a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist-German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark.

The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I.

In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it.

From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances.

This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors.

This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core areas of investigation and theory relating to the history of women and science.

This book is the first Indian publication on these branches of agricultural/biological sciences.

This book explores the understudied history of the so-called 'incurables' in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions.

Offering a valuable resource for medical and other historians, this book explores the processes by which pharmacy in Britain and its colonies separated from medicine and made the transition from trade to profession during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book conducts a panoramic study on the history of China's Science and Technology which focuses on the Medium and Long-Term Science and Technology Program (MLSTP).

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 presents a comprehensive and coherent summary of techniques for enhancing the resolution and image contrast provided by far-field optical microscopes.

This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts.

This book sets out, through Starr's personal story, his interest in how the ideas of "e;intellectual trajectories"e; and "e;political memories"e; could be incorporated into intellectual autobiography, thus exploring how the personal lives of individual academics intersected with their professional interests.

This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

This posthumous publication attempts to answer the question of what moral code is the most reasonable.

This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy.

This book provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness, responding to the growing recognition of physicians, policy makers and the general public that exercise is the most potent form of medicine available to humankind.

This book examines ten materials-flint, clay, iron, gold, glass, cement, rubber, polyethylene, aluminum, and silicon-explaining how they formed, how we discovered them, why they have the properties they do, and how they have transformed our lives.

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects.

Shaping Psychology is a unique collection of in-depth conversations with a selection of the most influential psychologists working today, conducted at the end of a decade that shook psychological science.

This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries.

This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B.

The motto of the Royal Society-Nullius in verba-was intended to highlight the members' rejection of received knowledge and the new place they afforded direct empirical evidence in their quest for genuine, useful knowledge about the world.

This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution.

The development of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant scientific events of the twentieth century.

This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer of science.

This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts.

Evolution--or the broader topic of origins--has enormous relevance to how we understand the Christian faith and how we interpret Scripture.

The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE.

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects.

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807.

This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor, but of a recent or actual Ph.

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century.

The book highlights the personal and scientific struggles of Arthur Erich Haas (1884-1941), an Austrian Physicist from a wealthy Jewish middle-class family, whose remarkable accomplishments in a politically hostile but scientifically rewarding environment deserve greater recognition.

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions.

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd.