History of science

The first biography of Fred Sanger, shedding light on his remarkable life and career and exploring his continuing legacy.

The book is a history of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) as applied to the growth of semiconductor thin films (note that it does not cover the subject of metal thin films).

Science, Enlightenment and Revolution brings together thirteen papers by renowned historian Dorinda Outram.

The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods.

It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countryside, without a reliable mains electricity supply.

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated.

Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique.

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy.

Will technology change what it means to be human?

An innovative history of astronomy in China, 221 BCE–750 CE, stressing plurality, change and the unifying power of myth-making.

Even as a young girl, Jane Goodall was fascinated with animals.

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This book features influential scholarly research and technical contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts, personal insights, and a combination of these from a group of remarkable women within mechanical engineering.

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

A guide to research on wild primates, providing advice on technical and practical aspects of both field and laboratory methods.

It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences.

A House in the Sun describes a number of experiments in solar house heating in American architectural, engineering, political, economic, and corporate contexts from the beginning of World War II until the late 1950s.

This book provides a detailed history of meteorology as a natural science, from an understanding of the Earth's early atmosphere to present-day advancements.

Jeff's Views provide witty, insightful, and thought-provoking looks into the life of a modern scientist.

An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history.

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics.

This book presents a concise yet comprehensive survey of methods used in the expanding studies of human evolution, paying particular attention to new work on social evolution.

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

This Element examines the relationship between the theory and experimental result and how the latter can support the former.

With the negotiation of the International Protocol on Environmental Protection in 1991, those nations conducting scientific research programs in Antarctica face new challenges for stewardship of the southern continent and protection of its environment.

It all began with Markus Jochum approaching one of us (HvS) - "e;when you guys are doing interviews with senior scientists from oceanography and related sciences, why are you not doing Walter Munk?

In a series of ingenious studies, social psychologist Stanley Milgram, examined the impact of modern society on the psychology of individuals.

Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics.

In this provocative and incisive book the author re-examines Samuel Johnson's major texts, focusing on his famous review of Soame Jenyns's A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil as a principal source of insight and innovation.

Insects are seldom mentioned in discussions surrounding human history, yet they have dramatically impacted today's societies.

This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

This collection of essays examines the question of theory from the perspective of the history of chemistry.

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.

'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times'A fascinating book' Daily Mail_______________________________________________________________We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world -- but it's a lot older than you think.

An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

The telephone lay in pieces on George Cowan's office desk in the basement of Princeton's physics building.

An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress.

A transnational approach to understanding and analyzing knowledge circulation.

A biohistoric investigation of a controversial museum collectionThis book considers the vast collection of skulls amassed by Samuel Morton in the first half of the nineteenth century.

This book addresses a variety of topics within the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy, focusing especially on Archaeoastronomy in Sicily and the Mediterranean and Cultural Astronomy.

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read.

Geology is the most historical of all sciences.

After decades of painstaking planning, NASA's first dedicated exoplanet detection mission, the Kepler space telescope, was launched in 2009 from Cape Canaveral.

This book provides insight and expert advice on the challenges of Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security (TIPPSS) for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) in our connected world.