History of science

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.

This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

John Modern offers a powerful and original critique of neurology's pivotal role in religious history.

First published in 1963.

Surveys the ecological impacts of World War I, showing how the war had a global impact on the environment.

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.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans were fascinated with fraud.

This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius'' China Root Epistle.

Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture.

Robert Kohler shows exactly how entrepreneurial academic scientists became intimate "e;partners in science"e; with the officers of the large foundations created by John D.

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period.

This book studies how doctors responded to - and helped shape - deep-seated fears about nervous degeneracy and population decline in France between 1750 and 1850.

This book uses the 'strategic-relational approach' to explain how the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown integrated the United Kingdom into the US ballistic missile defence system in order to maintain national security and to uphold the 'special relationship' while at the same time recognising that voters were in general opposed to missile defence.

Research into public health policies and expert instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context.

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

Broadcast Indecency (1997) treats broadcast indecency as more than a simple regulatory problem in American law.

"e;Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters.

Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not.

Dieses Sachbuch zeichnet die geschichtliche Entwicklung der irdischen Radiobotschaften ins Universum nach: von den frühesten Spekulationen über die Existenz extraterrestrischer Intelligenz zu den ersten Radiosignalen in Richtung Venus, gefolgt von dem Bau großer Radioobservatorien, die das Senden zahlreicher intelligenter sowie irrsinniger Botschaften ins All ermöglichten.

Sie ist der Traum der theoretischen Physik und die Suche nach ihr hat uns hundert Jahre technischen Fortschritt beschert: die große einheitliche Theorie von Allem, die eine Formel für alle physikalischen Gesetze, die das Universum regieren.

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers.

This volume traces the process by which reinforced concrete emerged during the 19th century as the successful building material of today.

This volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen.

In the year 2015, 100 years after Fred Hoyle was born, the ideas relating to the cosmic origins of life are slowly gaining credence in scientific circles.

With contributions from two of the original discoverers of protective measurement, this book investigates its broad applications and deep implications.

A brief and accessible account of the new interdisciplinary science of evo-devo for a general audience.

This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain.

A major contribution to great-ape research, covering every aspect of the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee Project to offer new, unique insights.

This work is the only current, single volume coverage of the the latest EU energy legislation and its application on the context of the rules of the EU Treaties.

The study of primate ecology and conservation has advanced rapidly in recent years.

In this incisive analysis of academic psychology, Gregg Henriques examines the fragmented nature of the discipline and explains why the field has had enormous difficulty specifying its subject matter and how this has limited its ability to advance our knowledge of the human condition.

An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationalityWhat did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason?

In the second edition of The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation, David Whitley updates his 2008 book to reflect recent developments in Disney and Disney-Pixar animation such as the apocalyptic tale of earth's failed ecosystem, WALL-E.

This book represents a journey through the history of science in regards to the concept of time, specifically, the question as to whether it is absolute, relative, or irreversible.

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In the 5th century the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (476-499) wrote a small but famous work on astronomy, the Aryabhatiya.

While the end of the nineteenth century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical, relationships between scientist and his subject.

This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain.

Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories.

This volume traces the evolution of the concept of Public Health and reveals the importance of political will and public spending in this field of civil engineering.

'The book neatly illuminates a forgotten history of female chemists - and this is not an overstatement.

The period from Copernicus to Newton witnessed a Scientific Revolution which eventually led to modern science and both built upon and sharply challenged the earlier natural philosophies of the classical world.

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature.

This book argues that science and the arts are not two different cultures, but rather different manifestations of the same culture.

Describes how radio astronomers made a series of remarkable serendipitous discoveries that changed our understanding of the Universe.

Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart.

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