History of science

This book provides a straightforward introduction to teleology in biology, the work it did and the work it can do.

This book is a small but practical summary of how one can and should learn science.

Behavioral neuroendocrinologists are interested in the interactions between hormones and behaviors.

This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War.

The intention of this book is to shine a bright light on the intellectual context of Euler's contributions to physics and mathematical astronomy.

Providing a historical overview of healthcare in Italy from its unification in 1861 to the present COVID-19 pandemic, this book analyses the political, social and cultural impact of Italian healthcare policy and medicine.

This monograph is dedicated to the lives and scientific achievements of the physiology pioneers Warren and Margaret Lewis.

During his lifetime, Kurt Godel was not well known outside the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists.

This book addresses the Arctic and the northern regions by exploring cold waters and northern seascapes.

Chemistry shapes and creates the disposition of the world's resources and provides novel substances for the welfare and hazard of our civilisation at an exponential rate.

In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C.

This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space.

This book sheds new light on an amazing history, only partially known in the west: Russian cosmonautics and its spectacular record.

2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches.

This book constructs a history of Newtown Creek's industrial expansion during the period that began in the 1840s and continued through the early years of the 20th century.

The 70 years from 1880 to 1950 witnessed the final ascent of humankind into the modern age.

This book explores the evolving nature of objectivity in the history of science and its implications for science education.

This book examines the British Admiralty's engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century.

This book analyzes the evolution of Italian viticulture and winemaking from the 1860s to the new Millennium.

Cosmology's journey to the present day has been a long one.

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

This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model.

This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the twentieth century, saved numerous iconic big game species from extinction.

The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one of its characterizing curves: the branch curve.

This book is a translation of Emil Fischer's autobiography published in 1922 by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, Germany.

This volume of specially commissioned interpretative essays marks the centenary of the establishment of the International Geographical Union in 1922.

This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged the important influences of socio-cultural and material contexts, the significant impact of traumatic events, life threatening illnesses and other psychotropic stimuli on the development of scientific thought may not have been fully recognised.

The epistemological synthesis of the various theories of evolution, since the first formulation in 1802 with the transmission of the inherited characters by J.

This book tells the story of a unique scientific and human adventure, following the life and science of Bruno Touschek, an Austrian born physicist, who conceived and built AdA, the first matter-antimatter colliding-beam storage ring, the ancestor of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2012.

Seen from "e;inside the IAU,"e; this book tells the in-depth story of a major crisis in which China "e;divorced"e; from the International Astronomical Union in 1960  as a protest against the admission of Taiwan.

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.

What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery?

This edited collection examines the contemporary relevance of Lacan's 1965 essay "e;Science and Truth"e; to debates on science, psychoanalysis, ethics and truth.

This book offers the first comprehensive and authoritative text on the history of physics in Italy's industrial and financial capital, from the foundation of the University of Milan's Institute of Physics in 1924 up to the early 1960s, when it moved to its current location.

Learn about commercial spaceflight's most successful startup in this fully updated book, which follows the extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement that have placed SpaceX at the forefront of the launch industry and positioned it as the most likely candidate for transporting humans to Mars.

The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the divide between the via antiqua and via moderna that dominated the discourse on logic during the 15th and early 16th centuries.

The major purpose of this book is to present Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in a real and interesting way based on the most recent historical research and analysis of authentic sources.

This book illuminates a few highly significant events in history in which astronomers have helped keep contacts between astronomers of different states in moments of international political tensions or even crises.

Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day.

This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N.

Niels Bohr's atomic theory of 1913 is one of the absolute highlights in the history of modern science.

This book subjects the traditional concept of law of nature to critical examination.

How can shadows determine the date and time of a painting by Johannes Vermeer?

This book presents the pioneering role of the women chemists at the London School of Medicine for Women (LSMW).

This volume contains eleven papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques.

This book offers a detailed and scholarly historical and philosophical examination of French scepticism from Descartes to the beginning of the Enlightenment by examining the views of Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721).

This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making.

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

This book represents a journey through the history of science in regards to the concept of time, specifically, the question as to whether it is absolute, relative, or irreversible.