History of science

This collection of essays examines the way psychoactive substances are described and discussed within late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literary and cultural texts.

Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich's theory within its historical context.

This book presents a unified evolutionary framework based on three sets of metaphors that will help to consolidate discussions on evolutionary transitions.

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

This book explores the importance of bodily fluids to the development of medical knowledge in the eighteenth century.

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

This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar.

This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines the personal lives of six of the intellectual giants involved.

This book offers an integrated historical and philosophical examination of the origin of genetics.

This book investigates the political history of Big Science in Europe in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, characterised by the founding histories of two collaborative, single-sited facilities namely the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France and the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (European XFEL) in Schenefeld, Germany.

Shaping Psychology is a unique collection of in-depth conversations with a selection of the most influential psychologists working today, conducted at the end of a decade that shook psychological science.

This book investigates the historical construction of scholarly personae by integrating a spectrum of recent perspectives from the history and cultural studies of knowledge and institutions.

International scholarship is increasingly aware that the 'geographical tradition' is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions.

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects.

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

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

This book sheds new light on the biographical approach in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, institutions, and concepts.

This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.

This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval Europe, shedding light on mathematical knowledge and practices documented by sources relating to the administrative and economic activities of officials, merchants and other actors.

Astronomy in the Inca Empire was a robust and fundamental practice.

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.

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

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen.

This book presents an overview of the ways in which women have been able to conduct mathematical research since the 18th century, despite their general exclusion from the sciences.

Is it possible to design robots and other machines that can reproduce and evolve?

Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War.

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

This book contains stories of women engineers' paths through the golden age of microelectronics, stemming from the invention of the transistor in 1947.

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 book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain.

This edited volume charts the history of celestial navigation over the course of five centuries.

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.

This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society.

This book introduces methodological concepts aimed at including women in the canon of the history of philosophy.

This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics,mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emergingof 19th century.

This book addresses an emblematic case of a potential faith-reason, or faith-science, conflict that never arose, even though the biblical passage in question runs counter to simple common sense.

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

This book has been defined around three important issues: the first sheds light on how people, in various philosophical, religious, and political contexts, understand the natural environment, and how the relationship between the environment and the body is perceived; the second focuses on the perceptions that a particular natural environment is good or bad for human health and examines the reasons behind such characterizations ; the third examines the promotion, in history, of specific practices to take advantage of the health benefits, or avoid the harm, caused by certain environments and also efforts made to change environments supposed to be harmful to human health.

This book presents a novel methodology to study economic texts.

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

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

This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon.

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.

Modern research has demonstrated that many stars are surrounded by planets-some of which might contain the right conditions to harbor life.

This book, translated from Italian, discusses the influence of Galileo on Hobbes' natural philosophy.

Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard Feynman, Eugene Wigner, Chen Ning Yang, David Bohm, Murray Gell-Mann, Remo Ruffini, Abdus Salam, and many others.

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.

This book offers a genealogy of the medicalisation of sexual appetite in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century.

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 undergraduate textbook introduces some fundamental issues in philosophy of science for students of philosophy and science students.