History of science

Essays by leading scholars on Isaac Newton and his philosophical interlocutors and critics, discussing a wide range of topics.

Biographies of twelve of the leading personalities in turbulence research chart the development of the subject from Reynolds onward.

Indispensable reference on the historical development of spectrographs for advanced amateur and professional astronomers, graduate students, and historians of science.

This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being.

This is the story of one of the most far-reaching human endeavors in history: the quest for mental well-being.

Previously unpublished archival material helps us reassess this famous, but seldom studied, classic that prompted modern logic and computers.

An engaging re-examination of William Huggins'' life and career; it will appeal to anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

An engaging re-examination of William Huggins'' life and career; it will appeal to anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

This book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century.

This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills.

Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.

This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization.

The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'.

This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards.

This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia.

This multi-disciplinary essay collection explores the controversial life and achievements of Sir John Hill (1714-1775), a prolific contributor to Georgian England's literature, medicine and science.

Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain.

This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "e;battlefields"e; of the Cold War.

One of the most popular and controversial scientists of the 20th century, Hans Eysenck had a major impact on psychology and society.

The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region.

This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period.

This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers.

The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production.

Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the region over the decades.

The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities.

This  volume  of  essays  fills  a  lacunae  in  the  current  climate  change  debate  by  bringing  new perspectives on the role of humanities scholars within this debate.

This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and religious origins.

This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns.

This book compares the cultural politics of the U.

This book addresses the ideological figure of modernity, its presumed historical significance as an era, and its theoretical adequacy as a frame.

This book explores the emergence of a new scientific field, synthetic biology, and the many bold promises its proponents have made to change the future of science, industry, humanity and the global environment.

This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world.

Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment.

The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production.

Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations of regular and irregular medical practice in early modern England.

In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand.

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century.

This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.

Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry's arch concept of madness.

The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body.

Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences.

This ground-breaking book offers unique insights into the careers of Indian doctors in colonial Kenya during the height of British colonialism, between 1895 and 1940.

Founded in 1920, the International Federation of University brought together women committed to promoting higher education across divisions hardened by global conflict.

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies.

Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes.

The Renaissance Extended Mind explores the parallels and contrasts between current philosophical notions of the mind as extended across brain, body and world, and analogous notions in literary, philosophical, and scientific texts circulating between the fifteenth century and early-seventeenth century.

This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated  in Britain before the National Health Service.

This study offers an analysis of the technological and entrepreneurial features of the Victorian telegraph service, together with the companies which ran it until nationalization in 1869.

This book examines the little studied story of Bellinghausen, and includes the fullest biography of the celebrated Russian explorer ever published, and with thoughtful discussion of the achievements and limitations of the expedition and suggestions for further research.