History of science

This book explores how the humoral womb was evoked, enacted, and embodied on the Shakespearean stage by considering the intersection of performance studies and humoral theory.

This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan's future.

This Brief presents an historical investigation into the reaction between ferric ions and thiocyanate ions, which has been viewed in different ways throughout the last two centuries.

Since ancient times, humans have been engaged in a continual quest to find meaning in and make sense of sights and events in the night sky.

Quantum mechanics - the grandiose theory that describes nature down to the submicroscopic level - was first formulated in Gottingen in 1925.

This book follows the development of research on the origin of the Moon from the late 18th century to the present.

This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry-and how the 'bandits' fight back.

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain.

Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were "e;mad.

This biography is a personal portrait of one of the best-known Dutch physicists, Nicolaas Bloembergen.

This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion.

This book tells the story of two of the most important figures in the history of chemistry.

This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today.

This book paints a comprehensive portrait of Mexico's system of assisted reproduction first from a historical perspective, then from a more contemporary viewpoint.

The title of this book describes the two extremes of ceramic invention from aesthetically beautiful and decorative works of art that graced the tables of the aristocracy to the functional silica brick that lined the smelting furnaces of industrialised nations in the 19th century designed to produce iron, copper and glass.

This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism.

This book considers the historical and cultural origins of the gut-brain relationship now evidenced in numerous scientific research fields.

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a "e;paradigm shift"e; in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution.

This book is an analytical account of how Roald Amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the South Pole in 1911, and is the first to name and identify all 116 Polar dogs who were part of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912.

This book investigates the origins and development of human rights discourse in Finnish legal scholarship in the twentieth century.

On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the "e;turbulence problem"e;.

The work published by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR) in 1935 is a classic in modern physics.

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the physical sciences.

This book presents an English-language translation of Risala-yi Mu?

This book discusses technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (mechanism and machine science).

Explore the beauty and awe of the heavens through the rich celestial prints and star atlases offered in this third edition book.

In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume, former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick reflects on the exploration of space, astrobiology and its implications, cosmic evolution, astronomical institutions, discovering and classifying the cosmos, and the philosophy of astronomy.

This book sheds light on the originality and historical significance of women's philosophical, moral, political and scientific ideas in Italy and early modern Europe.

A principal aim of this first biography of Robert Le Rossignol, engineer of the Haber process, is to bring new evidence to the attention of the scientific community allowing a re-assessment of the origins of the 'Haber' process.

This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort.

This book presents the historical development of Cyclodextrins by scientists who have made outstanding contribution to the field.

This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding.

This book explores the lively chemistry culture that arose during the 17th century in Colonial New England.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia.

This book introduces in a non-traditional way the laws of physical chemistry and its history starting in the 16th century.

This proceedings volume collects the stories of mathematicians and scientists who have spent and developed parts of their careers and life in countries other than those of their origin.

This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature.

This book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, London.

This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate.

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 features papers on the history and philosophy of science.

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.

This book, Philosophy of Chemistry, is dedicated to some of the general principles of philosophy of chemistry, the special branch of philosophy of science.

This book presents the exceptional biography of the 20th century Chinese astronomer Cheng Maolan, who came to France in 1926 on a China-France cooperation program to do his PhD with the idea of returning to China after a few years.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most fascinating elements of the physics curriculum, but its conceptual nuances and mathematical complexity can be daunting for beginning students.

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 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.

Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century-be they alive, stuffed or fossilised-and the development of children's literature at this time.

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

This book examines the deep roots of racism in the mental health system.