History of science

Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem.

Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F.

A guide to research on wild primates, providing advice on technical and practical aspects of both field and laboratory methods.

This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then Galileo''s discoveries, casts the European advancements in modern science, technology, and economic development into a global framework.

A guide to research on wild primates, providing advice on technical and practical aspects of both field and laboratory methods.

This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608 and then Galileo''s discoveries, casts the European advancements in modern science, technology, and economic development into a global framework.

Review of brain evolution in primates including humans.

A fascinating analysis of the relationship between mathematics and architecture in ancient Egypt.

This book contains both published and previously unpublished research on spider monkeys, for academic researchers and graduate students.

From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.

From quantum to biological and digital, here eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information.

This book examines complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues relating to quantum chromodynamics for graduate students and researchers.

Presents a summary of current research on the philosophical issues inherent in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics.

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.

Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science''s place in society.

This book examines complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues relating to quantum chromodynamics for graduate students and researchers.

This book is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing.

Presents a summary of current research on the philosophical issues inherent in the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics.

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.

This book is the third edition of the classic study, featuring a new essay and an updated bibliography.

Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion.

This book examines responses to Pliny the Elder''s encyclopedic Natural History over the last two millennia.

This book presents personality psychology, incorporating historical perspectives and how past developments have led to progressions within science and research.

Annotated with original illustrations, this valuable text brings together all known shorter publications, letters and journals written by Charles Darwin.

Raises questions about the future shape of Evolutionary Developmental biology as it matures as a field.

This book examines how nineteenth-century ghost and detective fiction writers engage with contemporary theories of vision.

A literary account of how the modern divide between the sciences and the humanities emerged in the eighteenth century.

This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.

Encapsulates the behaviour of wild chimps, discussing the differences observed in populations across the species, and levels of social behaviour.

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

This book addresses the most important developments and debates in this exciting area of research for historians, philosophers of science and physicists.

Michael Ruse offers a new analysis of the often troubled relationship between science and religion.

This book examines responses to Pliny the Elder''s encyclopedic Natural History over the last two millennia.

This book presents personality psychology, incorporating historical perspectives and how past developments have led to progressions within science and research.

Ideal for students and practitioners in science, engineering and medicine, this book gives an insight into science''s place in society.

A literary account of how the modern divide between the sciences and the humanities emerged in the eighteenth century.

This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.

Encapsulates the behaviour of wild chimps, discussing the differences observed in populations across the species, and levels of social behaviour.

Uniquely, this book traces Descartes'' groundbreaking theory of scientific explanation back to the mathematical demonstrations of Aristotelian mechanics.

This book describes the relationship between science and poetry in the Hellenistic period, transforming our understanding of the origins of Western mathematics.

Annotated with original illustrations, this valuable text brings together all known shorter publications, letters and journals written by Charles Darwin.

This book examines the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes under Hitler, illustrating the cooperation between scientists and National Socialists in service of autarky, racial hygiene, war, and genocide.

A collection of essays on research on CMBR in the 1960s by eminent cosmologists who pioneered the work.

Raises questions about the future shape of Evolutionary Developmental biology as it matures as a field.

Fourth volume of multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history, this volume covers comets seen from 1933 to 1959.

This book examines central topics in philosophy of biology and challenges much of the current thinking.

This fascinating collection considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society in the Roman Empire.

A cast of leading animal biologists reflect on the enduring significance of Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen''s groundbreaking proposals for behavioural biology.

Simply, the most beautiful and complete reference on the Messier objects there has ever been!

Andrew Janiak presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy.