History of science

This book examines the interplay between astronomy and dynastic power in the course of ancient Egyptian history.

This brief traces the story of one of our most common medicines - aspirin.

The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy explores how doctors studied the Bible and other sacred texts in sixteenth-century Italy.

Jung's lectures on the history of psychology-in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C.

This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US.

During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public.

Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories.

There is ample evidence that it is difficult for the general public to understand and internalize scientific facts.

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

This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science.

This book provides, for the very first time, a critical edition and an English translation (accompanied by critical notes and technical analyses) of the chapter on spheres (goladhyaya) from Nityananda's Sarvasiddhantaraja, a Sanskrit astronomical text written in seventeenth-century Mughal India.

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955.

This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The unifying theme in this second volume of essays by William A.

Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939-the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete.

This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The first publication of Albert Einstein's travel diary to the Far East and Middle EastIn the fall of 1922, Albert Einstein, along with his then-wife, Elsa Einstein, embarked on a five-and-a-half-month voyage to the Far East and Middle East, regions that the renowned physicist had never visited before.

Places the history of geology into the larger context of the history of science in general.

National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency because it supports scientific research financially, but does not engage in scientific work itself.

The 1950s were a vital time in the history of science.

From the wheel to the worldwide web, our planet has been transformed by science.

This book argues that evolution arises from the activities of organisms as agents, not from the replication of genes.

This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures.

This monograph explores the participation of women in alchemy, chemical crafts, and the early stages of modern chemistry.

It is a common belief that Jews did nothing to resist their own fate in the Holocaust.

The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville's 1853 classic, "e;Bartleby, the Scrivener,"e; from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry.

The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe.

Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups.

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball.

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

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There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought.

This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university.

After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds.

At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details.

The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the divide between the via antiqua and via moderna that dominated the discourse on logic during the 15th and early 16th centuries.

This book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century.

Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of 'new' knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history.

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day.

This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the impact of Christianity, the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century, the medicalisation of childbirth, the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as "e;unborn citizen"e;, and, finally, the revolution of reproductive technologies.

How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain?

This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Material Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history.