History of science

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.

This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean.

This edited volume discusses scientific and technological aspects of the history of the oil and gas industry in national and international contexts.

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

This book presents a history of the correspondence principle from a new perspective.

This posthumous publication attempts to answer the question of what moral code is the most reasonable.

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

This third collection of Charles Schmitt's articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life.

In this book, Istvan Hargittai, an internationally renowned physical chemist, narrates his life by introducing over forty personalities that played noteworthy roles in his career.

This book investigates Hermann Weyl's work on the problem of space from the early 1920s onwards.

This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era.

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.

Since the invention of the telescope 400 years ago, astronomers have rapidly discovered countless celestial objects.

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 is an annotated translation of Xu Shuwei's (1080-1154) collection of 90 medical case records - Ninety Discussions of Cold Damage Disorders (shanghan jiushi lun ?

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 volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro's 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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.

Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology.

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

This book offers an inside look into the notoriously tumultuous, professional relationship of two great minds: Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend.

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia.

This book offers to the international reader a collection of original articles of some of the most skillful historians and philosophers of biology currently working in Latin American universities.

Keen to learn but short on time?

This book focuses on the highly complex and intertwined relationship between civil aviation, technological globalization and Cold War politics.

The development of science has been an ideological struggle that lasted over three millennia.

Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement AwardHomes can be both comforting and troubling places.

This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements - epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual.

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire.

This book provides insight into the air force weather history from 1937 to 1987.

In this book, Robert Fleagle describes the transformations occurring in the atmospheric sciences in the span of his professional career.

This book presents the spirited recollections and observations of David Atlas, one of the founding fathers of radar meteorology.

This book presents the memoirs of Sverre Pettersen, prominent leader in the field of meteorology.

Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964) is noted for identifying, in 1938, the link between the artifcial production of carbon dioxide and global warming.

From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives.

This book if a tribute to one of the leading scientists in meteorology, Dr.

This book is a tribute to a pioneer in tropical meteorology research, Dr.

Through a series of reviews by invited experts, this monograph pays tribute to Richard Reed's remarkable contributions to meteorology and his leadership in the science community over the past 50 years.

This encyclopedia provides the most complete treatment to date of the accomplishments of African American scientists-and the struggles of African Americans to find their place in the scientific community.

In this digital age, are there cultural lessons for us in looking to the earliest kinds of communications?

Quantum theory is at the heart of modern physics, but how does it actually work?

To be human is to wonder.

This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural History's David H.

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA's Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex.

"e;The body cries out to not be hungry, not be thirsty, not be cold.

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia.

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia.