History of science

The essential guide to successfully designing, conducting and reporting primatological research.

In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end.

This book is the second edition of Women Spacefarers and tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program.

Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes.

In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost.

What is a lighthouse?

Crystal Clear takes you behind the scenes in the life of one of the most prominent scientists of the twentieth century, William Lawrence Bragg (WLB) - an innovative genius, who together with his father, William Henry Bragg (WHB) founded and developed a whole new branch of science, X-ray Crystallography.

This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot edited by Professor Robert Fox is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009.

This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world.

This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward.

This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic.

The early modern period used to be known as the Age of Discovery.

This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world.

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world.

First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts and objectives.

This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment.

This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great literary, musical, and artistic talent - "e;The Tuscan Artist"e;, as the poet John Milton referred to him.

A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, “wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged” (Booklist).

How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.

In this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, originally intended for his family.

In Trying Biology, Adam R.

This book examines the meaning of religion within the scientific, evidence-based history of our known past since the big bang.

Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the cosmos.

For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today.

Prakash Kumar documents the global history of agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of nineteenth-century globalisation on a colonial industry in South Asia.

At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops all of fundamental modern theoretical physics from energy considerations in a compact form.

Throughout the twentieth century, glaciologists and geophysicists from Denmark, Norway and Sweden made important scientific contributions across the Arctic and Antarctic.

Peter Anstey presents a thorough and innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy.

This is the story of a new science.

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge?

Jung's landmark seminar on the symbolism of yoga and its applications to dream analysisIn the summer of 1933, C.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist.

First published in 1989, Eric L.

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In the history of British patent law, the role of Parliament is often side-lined.

This book is about how statistics play a role in life, whether in business, psychology, biology, economics, or just about anything short of basket weaving.

The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment-its rise, fall, and enduring legacyIn this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S.

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.

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health.

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s.

Drawing on the expertise of historical, literary and philosophical scholarship, practicing physicians, and the medical humanities this is a true interdisciplinary collaboration, styled as a history.

What is the relationship between intelligence and sex?

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical and astronomical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period.

Based on a wide variety of previously unstudied sources, these articles explain how science was applied to three aspects of Islamic ritual in the Middle Ages: the regulation of the lunar calendar; the organisation of the times of the five daily prayers; and the determination of the sacred direction (qibla) towards the Kaaba in Mecca.

How genes are not the only basis of heredity-and what this means for evolution, human life, and diseaseFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection.

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin.

The clash of faith and science in Napoleonic FranceThe Dendera zodiac-an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the stars and planets-was first discovered by the French during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, and quickly provoked a controversy between scientists and theologians.

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning.