History of science

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

The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease.

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.

The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science,  transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today.

This Brief presents for the first time a detailed historical overview of the development of acetylene polymers, beginning with the initial discovery of acetylene in 1836 and continuing up through the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This book focuses on the gradual formation of the concept of 'light quanta' or 'photons', as they have usually been called in English since 1926.

This book reviews the convoluted history of orthogenesis with an emphasis of non-English sources, untangles relationships between various concepts of directed evolution and argues whether orthogenesis has something to offer modern biology.

This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American and Russian approaches to the development of chemistry.

This volume is the first extensive study of the historical and philosophical connections between technology and mathematics.

The book addresses for the first time the dynamics associated with the modernization of mathematics in China from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century from a transcultural global historical perspective.

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries.

This book presents an analysis of the institutional development of selected social science and humanities (SSH) disciplines in Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion.

The motto of the Royal Society-Nullius in verba-was intended to highlight the members' rejection of received knowledge and the new place they afforded direct empirical evidence in their quest for genuine, useful knowledge about the world.

The aim if this book is to analyze the scientific biography of Judah Folkman, one of the most important scientist of the last century.

Is 'Jewish medicine' a valid historical category?

How did science rise up to so dramatically change our world, and where will it take us in the future?

This new scientific biography explores the influences on, and of, Galileo's exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond.

This Brief takes the reader on a chemical journey by following the history for over two centuries of how an opiate became an opioid, thus spawning an empire and a series of crises.

This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8.

This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day.

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This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development that occurred during the Renaissance.

This accessible textbook presents a fascinating review of cryptography and cryptanalysis across history.

This book is divided into two sections.

This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts.

This Brief documents the life, discoveries and inventions of the chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach.

This book discusses how and why historical measurement units developed, and reviews useful methods for making conversions as well as situations in which dimensional analysis can be used.

This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change.

This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a science and industry.

The story of superheavy elements  - those at the very end of the periodic table  - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists.

This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America's space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras.

This unique volume brings together a selection of the most important texts of Nico Stehr for the first time and puts them in dialogue with original research that draws on his prolific work.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease.

This book provides a comprehensive account of vascular biology and pathology and its significance for health and disease.

The author of this history of mankind's increasingly successful attempts to understand, to measure and to map the Earth's gravity field (commonly known as 'little g' or just 'g')  has been following in the footsteps of the pioneers, intermittently and with a variety of objectives, for more than fifty years.

This well-documented and fascinating book tells how, over the centuries, a series of visionaries, scientists, technologists, and politicians fostered the involvement of Italy in space exploration.

This book examines the role played by civil nuclear energy in Britain's relationship with Europe between the end of the Second World War and London's first application to join the European Communities.

Mathematical correspondence offers a rich heritage for the history of mathematics and science, as well as cultural history and other areas.

This collection establishes the term 'medical paratexts' as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history, and literary studies research.

This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War.

This book analyzes how women's bodies became a subject and object of modern bio-power by examining the history of women's reproductive health in Japan between the seventeenth century and the mid-twentieth century.

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our universe.

While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass - for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments - the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s).

This book describes the life, times and science of the Soviet physicist Lev Vasilevich Shubnikov (1901-1937).

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.

This book examines the life, work and contraversial achievements of Marie Stopes, author and pioneer of the birth control movement in the interwar period.

Shamanism is commonly understood through reference to spirits and souls.

This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm.