History of science

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions.

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness.

This title was first published in 2002: Before the introduction of Greco-Arabic mathematical astronomy in the 12th century, what astronomy was there in the medieval West?

In 1971, J.

William Crookes' long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1913.

This volume presents the development of Chinese science and technology, which was gradually shaped by systematical theories and entered into a new stage of development in the course of a lengthy historical evolution.

Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.

Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment.

The untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books.

Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments.

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history.

The new discoveries in physics during the twentieth century have stimulated intense debate about their relevance to age-old theological questions.

Gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question: what is the true nature of space and time?

Eight interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars and public figures discuss the timely theme of migration in a range of contexts.

The invention of the telescope at the dawning of the 17th century has revolutionized humanity's understanding of the Universe and our place within it.

Visual anatomy books have been a staple of medical practice and study since the mid-sixteenth century.

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences.

Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19th century.

A Nobel Laureate explains quantum entanglement and teleportation and why Einstein was wrong about the nature of realityWhat is the true nature of reality?

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.

In this revised third edition, Toby E.

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

A window into cultures of scientific practice drawing on the collection of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze.

Probing the relationship between German political economy and everyday fiscal administration, The Disordered Police State focuses on the cameral sciences-a peculiarly German body of knowledge designed to train state officials-and in so doing offers a new vision of science and practice during the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

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

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos.

This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism's central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge.

To meet William Morgan is to encounter the eighteenth-century world of finance, science and politics.

This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century.

No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine.

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists.

Conceived as a series of more or less autonomous essays, the present book critically exposes the initial developments of continuum thermo-mechanics in a post Newtonian period extending from the creative works of the Bernoullis to the First World war, i.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

This book tells the story of how chemists, physicians, and surgeons attempted to end the problem of urinary stones.

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science.

How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.

In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South.

Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his study of birds.

The major significance of the German naturalist-physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) as a topic of historical study is the fact that he was one of the first anthropologists to investigate humankind as part of natural history.

This book collects a renowned scholar's essays from the past five decades and reflects two main concerns: an approach to logic that stresses argumentation, reasoning, and critical thinking and that is informal, empirical, naturalistic, practical, applied, concrete, and historical; and an interest in Galileo's life and thought-his scientific achievements, Inquisition trial, and methodological lessons in light of his iconic status as "e;father of modern science.

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

Social work is currently undergoing major change in its policies, organization and day-to-day practice and much has been written about the feminist presence in social work.