History of science

Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions.

This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scientific body.

400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine''s disease of the mind.

In this Brief, Joe Jeffers uncovers the life and works of two-time Nobel Laureate Frederick Sanger.

Translation of the Fifth Solvay Congress proceedings, for graduate students and researchers in physics and quantum theory.

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.

Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature.

This volume, the third by Charles Burnett in the Variorum series, brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts.

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

Jung's lectures on the psychology of Jesuit spiritual practiceunabridged in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C.

On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios.

The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596).

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes.

Wissen, so lautet die unausgesprochene Maxime der Humanisten und Polyhistoren der Frühen Neuzeit, kann man nie genug erwerben.

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century.

An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.

This book seeks to explore how scientists across a number of countries managed to cope with the challenging circumstances created by World War II.

Discover the profound, surprising, and instructive tales embedded within the tragic earthquakes and tsunamis of the years 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2004, 2011, and 2023.

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis?

Why do we eat?

The Special Theory of Relativity:Based on a short course of lectures delivered in the late 1930s, this short book presents the theory of Special Relativity by formulating a redefinition of the measurement of length, and thus will appeal to students of physics who wish to think through Einstein's thought without the encumbrance of quasi-scientific concepts and language.

This work is a unique introductory A-Z resource detailing the scientific achievements of the contemporary world and analyzing the key scientific trends, discoveries, and personalities of the modern age.

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This 2004 book traces the history of evolutionary thought, and challenges many long-established assumptions.

How a writer who investigated scientific anomalies inspired a factious movement and made a lasting impact on American culture.

"e;Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.

This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present.

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Feeding France shows how chemists navigated the French Revolution to become the first public food experts in an industrialising world.

This title was first published in 2002.

Recounting the compelling story of a scientific discovery that took more than a century to complete, this trail-blazing monograph focuses on methodological issues and is the first to delve into this subject.

Shaping Science and Industry touches on Australia's intellectual, political and economic life.

In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions.

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared.

Nach Darstellungen zur Geschichte der Lustfeuerwerkerei werden die grundlegenden chemischen Prinzipien und Vorgänge der pyrotechnischen Effekte vorgestellt - von der Wunderkerze bis zu den funkensprühenden Raketen.

In the 19th century, pure mathematics research reached a climax in Germany, and Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was an epochal example.

Some Nineteenth Century British Scientists presents the biographies of eight British scientists who represent the state of science in the second half of the Victorian era: Charles Wyville Thomson, James Murray, Arthur Cayley, Francis Galton, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Norman Lockyer, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, and William Ramsay.

This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now.

How did our modern picture of the universe come into being?

This book covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up to the celebrations of the Great Clock's 150th anniversary in 2009.

Upon its publication, The Origin of Species was critically embraced in Europe and North America.

Sakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went "e;from Empire to Europe"e; and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.

Reviews the historical development of all the key areas of modern astrophysics.

This biography of Thomas Huxley reflects on the historical significance of scientific authority.

The story of microscopy over the years is one of wonder, revelation, and even love.