History of science

This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context.

This book provides a broad overview of Professor Raimo Vayrynen's academic work, his role in international research organizations, and his contributions to policy debates.

This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle.

Aimed at an international readership, this book offers a representative collection of essays by the German philosopher, Georg Picht (1913-1982), who was a specialist in Greek philosophy, practical philosophy and philosophy of religion.

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

This new volume of papers by Julio SamsA deals with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries.

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

This new volume of papers by Julio SamsA deals with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries.

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

This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

This volume explores the history of epidemiology from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.

This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used to obtain information about and to find explanations of meteorological phenomena.

This book succinctly traces the history of the metric system from early modern proposals of decimal measures, to the birth of the system in Revolutionary France, through its formal international adoption under the supervision of an international General Committee of Weights and Measures (CGPM), to its later expansion into the International System of Units (SI), currently formulated entirely in terms of physical constants.

This seventh edition of A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early twenty-first century, giving students a thorough look into psychology's origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology.

This book is the second edition of Women Spacefarers and tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics.

In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds.

This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward.

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: melanges offerts a Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019).

This seventh edition of A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early twenty-first century, giving students a thorough look into psychology's origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology.

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain.

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This book is the second edition of Women Spacefarers and tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics.

In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds.

This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward.

This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: melanges offerts a Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & Petit 2018/2019).

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Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials.

This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present.

This catalog is the first in-depth investigation of comets that were reported since the 17th century, but not confirmed and subsequently lost.

These essays deal with questions of navigation and, more broadly, the intellectual challenges posed by Spain's acquisition of an empire across the Atlantic.

This catalog is the first in-depth investigation of comets that were reported since the 17th century, but not confirmed and subsequently lost.

The late eighteenth century and subsequent Napoleonic Era witnessed a turning point in the establishment of agricultural science as a well-defined discipline in northern Italy.

This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators.

The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain.

From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.

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The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.

Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film.

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "e;priest of God,"e; a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist-German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure.

Popular science readers embrace epics-the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark.