History of science

In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science.

In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science.

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.

Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession.

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale.

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale.

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.

In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful.

Great innovations take place within great institutions.

Great innovations take place within great institutions.

Involved in rabies research for much of their working careers, editors David J.

Involved in rabies research for much of their working careers, editors David J.

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions.

Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions.

Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories opens up new and exciting perspectives on how systems of state surveillance developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.

In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost.

In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost.

Alfred Nobel made his name as an inventor and successful entrepreneur and left a legacy as a philanthropist and promoter of learning and social progress.

Alfred Nobel made his name as an inventor and successful entrepreneur and left a legacy as a philanthropist and promoter of learning and social progress.

Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585.

Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585.

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "e;like cures like,"e; counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "e;like cures like,"e; counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.

In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "e;Ontario's most successful rapist trap.

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships.

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships.

Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia - from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available today.

Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East.

Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals.

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations.

Rare, unique and irreplaceable - precious native rainforests occupy a precariously small part of Australia while retaining a remarkable level of both biological and chemical diversity unrivalled by any other ecosystem.

Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator-prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management.

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent - the heart of Australia.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback.

Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

'The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive volcanoes are all associated with these places.