History of science

The ultimate collection of Einstein's scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativityThe Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein's most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity as well as his ambitious yet ultimately unrealized attempts at a general unified field theory.

The ultimate collection of Einstein's scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativityThe Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein's most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory, and relativity as well as his ambitious yet ultimately unrealized attempts at a general unified field theory.

Pictures of Cotton in Eighteenth-Century China narrates cotton's journey from a little understand material to a cherished commodity ennobled by associations with the classical heritage of China.

Can machines think?

Can machines think?

This book studies the history of geoscience in ancient China.

This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.

This book offers the first detailed comparison between Emilie Du Chatelet's philosophy and her predecessors G.

This book offers the first detailed comparison between Emilie Du Chatelet's philosophy and her predecessors G.

Flattening the Medieval Earth explores the origin of the 'flat error', i.

As a powerful research technology, electron microscopy has shaped various natural and technical sciences.

As a powerful research technology, electron microscopy has shaped various natural and technical sciences.

The science of geology is intertwined with the growth of the field in Argentina.

The science of geology is intertwined with the growth of the field in Argentina.

This book forms an important part of the current revival of the debate around the category of historical epistemology.

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter.

Die italienische Philologie und ihr erkenntnistheoretischer Beitrag zu Rassedenken und Ethnozentrismus.

This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

In 1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin joined a five-year expedition on the ship HMS Beagle.