History of science

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine''s disease of the mind.

Michael Faraday's celebrated series of lectures,The Chemical History of a Candle, turned into one of the most successful science books ever published and was a classic work of Victorian popular science.

This first complete English language edition of Euclides vindicatus presents a corrected and revised edition of the classical English translation of Saccheri's text by G.

Essays by leading scholars on Isaac Newton and his philosophical interlocutors and critics, discussing a wide range of topics.

This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the relevance of naturalism and theories of nature in Classical German Philosophy.

This book is offers a broad, comparative survey of a booming field within the history of science: the history, generation, use, and function of images in scientific practice.

Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate.

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination.

This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature.

This edition first published in 1970.

This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports.

Race and Photography studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "e;science of race,"e; what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science.

How do Documents Become Sources?

Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity.

This volume collects contributions on leading figures in mechanism and machine science (MMS) from Spain and Ibero-America over the last two centuries.

The first ever reference book on the behaviour, physiology, conservation and biogeography of the dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar.

The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy.

Insects are seldom mentioned in discussions surrounding human history, yet they have dramatically impacted today's societies.

This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries of the European Periphery, and the constructive dialogue of these emerging communities with an extended community of international scholars.

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

This book presents the first ever English translation of the Medicina Plinii, one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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.

Byzantine science has been a largely neglected subject: Byzantinists, whether dealing with the history or the literature, have most often been deterred by the technicalities; historians of Greek science have been more attracted to earlier periods.

In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge.

This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world.

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet.

The story of the visionary scientists who invented the futureIn 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion.

In the 1930s, physics was in a crisis.

This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory.

The first critical book on "e;appropriate technology,"e; Developing to Scale shows how global health came to be understood as a problem to be solved with the right technical interventions.

The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today.

In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle.

This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today.

The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America''s least-known, and most endangered, primates.

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Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care.

Since 1969, the international chemistry community has only held conferences on the topic of the Periodic Table three times, and the 2012 conference in Cusco, Peru was the first in almost a decade.

The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy.

This book examines the work of prominent South African geologist Alex Du Toit as a means of understanding the debate around continental drift both in segregation-era South Africa and internationally.

A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism.

This book examines British eugenics from its origins in 1865 to the early 1990s.

A history of the unsustainable modern diet-heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar-that requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support.

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world.