History of science

This book discusses how and why historical measurement units developed, and reviews useful methods for making conversions as well as situations in which dimensional analysis can be used.

This book provides a breadth of innovative and impactful research in the field computational intelligence led by women investigators.

This book offers a detailed and scholarly historical and philosophical examination of French scepticism from Descartes to the beginning of the Enlightenment by examining the views of Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721).

In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era.

This book is devoted to the knowledge of up to 250 years of collecting, organizing and preserving animals by generations of scientists.

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction.

This book provides a comprehensive account of vascular biology and pathology and its significance for health and disease.

This volume features essays that explore the insights of the 14th-century Parisian nominalist philosopher, John Buridan.

This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination.

This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938.

This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the twentieth century, saved numerous iconic big game species from extinction.

This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the "e;limit cases"e; regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge.

This book draws on over twenty years' investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies.

This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination.

With foreword by astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian MayThis book describes the unlikely development of astrophysics in Spain, set against the final decade of Franco's rule and the country's transition to democracy.

This book tells the story of a unique scientific and human adventure, following the life and science of Bruno Touschek, an Austrian born physicist, who conceived and built AdA, the first matter-antimatter colliding-beam storage ring, the ancestor of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012.

This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War.

Since the 1960s, astrophysical discoveries have blossomed, due to the emergence of powerful and new observational tools.

This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N.

Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.

This book is the first in-depth analysis of Ernest William Barnes' Christian-eugenic philosophy: 'bio-spiritual determinism'.

This volume honors the lifetime achievement of distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 96th birthday.

In the commentaries to this book we try to understand d'Alembert thoughts and how he contrives to translate his ideas on mechanics to the fluid realm with a new and radical point of view; how he arrives at the first two fundamental differential equations among the velocity components; and how he tries to reduce the resistance of a moving body, which is a change of its momentum, to the hydrostatical pressure, which is related to the gravity.

This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.

This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920-2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday.

This book describes the historical development of the principle of stationary action from  the 17th to the 20th centuries.

The "e;Ashen Light"e; of Venus-a ghostly emission of light from the night side of our nearest planetary neighbor-is among the last unsolved mysteries of astronomical history.

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our universe.

This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period.

This book explores rehabilitation methodology in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM), providing a description of the main traditional strategies used by physiotherapists.

This book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century.

This book presents a modern scholarly analysis of issues associated with England's most famous astronomer, William Herschel.

This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program.

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.

What is mechanical engineering?

The female authors highlighted in this monograph represent a special breed of science writer, women who not only synthesized the science of their day (often drawing upon their own direct experience in the laboratory, field, classroom, and/or public lecture hall), but used their works to simultaneously educate, entertain, and, in many cases, evangelize.

This book offers a considered yet entertaining reflection on the progress of modern scientific research.

This book recounts the stories of the astronomical pioneers who forever changed our views of the cosmos.

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America's space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras.

The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy.

This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War.

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly known as 'little g' or just 'g')  has been following in the footsteps of the pioneers, intermittently and with a variety of objectives, for more than fifty years.

This accessible and entertaining biography chronicles the life and triumphs of astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who helped lay the foundations of modern astronomy in the 20th century.

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium.

Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond.

This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal philosophy as it was then termed.

This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making.

Presenting spectacular photographs of astronomical objects of the southern sky, all taken by author Stephen Chadwick, this book explores what peoples of the South Pacific see when they look up at the heavens and what they have done with this knowledge.