History of science

A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.

What was the medical marketplace?

A sequel to Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific, 2005), this book is based on the author's intensive and ground breaking studies of the long history of Mesopotamian mathematics, from the late 4th to the late 1st millennium BC.

This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head.

A History of Western Science: The Basics offers a short introduction to the history of Western science that is accessible to all through avoiding technical language and mathematical intricacies.

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain.

What comes first, form or function?

The Victorian period in Britain was an "e;age of reform.

Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system.

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development.

Niels Bohr and the Quantum Atom is the first book that focuses in detail on the birth and development of Bohr's atomic theory and gives a comprehensive picture of it.

This book is a translation of Emil Fischer's autobiography published in 1922 by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, Germany.

This book is a biography of a scientist who pioneered the development of plant pathology in Australia in the 19th and early 20th century, and was internationally acclaimed.

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology.

How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling nature Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, "e;books of secrets"e; offered medieval readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" verfügbar.

Throughout the history of the Western world, science has possessed an extraordinary amount of authority and prestige.

Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind-guidance for living a good life.

Originally published in 1961.

This book is a "e;Big History"e; of the evidence regarding how we came to be.

Harold C.

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study.

This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology.

Both fascinating and touching, this book appeals to a broad readership of both geologists and science enthusiasts.

Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

History of Computing: Learning from the Past Why is the history of computing important?

How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth?

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

Albert Einstein, one of the most prolific scientists of the twentieth century, developed the theory of relativity which was crucial for the advancement of modern physics.

PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Finalist 2023Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history.

';Those seeking a grand overview of science's greatest hits over the past century will find it here' (The Washington Post).

This book confronts the question of immortality: Is human life without immortality tolerable?

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany's age of extremes.

This fresh collection of essays questions how the historical process affects our conception of science, including our understanding of its validity as well as our general conception of knowledge.

This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686).

First Published in 1996.

Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam.

The notebooks of mineralogist and petrographer Friedrich Johann Karl Becke (1855-1931) give impressive testimony to the scientific practices at the turn of the century.

The first ever companion to theatre and science brings together research on key topics, performances, and new areas of interest.

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

This book examines the history of thought surrounding the relationship between Darwinism and the behavioural sciences.

In the endless debate about the Two Cultures no book until this attempted to provide a selection of scientific writing on specific themes to stimulate students of arts subjects into discussion and writing about the nature of science and its relationship with the rest of life.

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge.

The exciting discoveries and newest revelations in the field of archeoastronomy present fascinating examples of the importance of astronomy to the ancient Maya Civilization.