History of science

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd.

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.

This fully updated and refreshed 9th edition places social, economic and political forces of change alongside psychology's internal theoretical and empirical arguments.

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.

La science est une puissante manifestation de la curiosité humaine.

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

Extrait : "Depuis le jour où l'homme a , pour la première fois, soulevé l'épiderme terrestre pour y creuser des sillons et pour y tracer des chemins ; depuis l'époque où il a su pénétrer dans le sein de l'écorce superficielle, soit pour y dérober l'eau potable, soit pour ravir aux entrailles du sol la pierre à bâtir ou le minerai, il a dû mettre en lumière l'existence des pétrifications et des coquilles.

Extrait : "La savant La Condamine au cours de sa Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique méridionale, signalait en ces termes, à la date de juillet 1743, les propriétés d'une résine désignée sous le nom de cahuchu en la province de Quito : « Fraîche, on lui donne avec des moules la forme qu'on veut, elle est impénétrable à la pluie ; mais ce qui la rend plus remarquable, c'est sa grande élasticité.

Extrait : "La rotation diurne de notre globe et son mouvement annuel autour du soleil sont aujourd'hui des vérités sans contradicteurs ; il en est peu cependant qui se soient plus difficilement imposées à la conscience de l'esprit humain.

Extrait : "L'origine de l'astronomie paraît fort simple quand on l'attribue à la contemplation des cieux, par des bergers, ou des poètes admirateurs des beautés de la création.

Extrait : "La décoration d'un arbre de Noël n'offre pas de bien grandes difficultés ; un peu de goût suffit en général.

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.

Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer.

Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer.

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

"e;America's most interesting and important essayist.

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.