History of science books

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Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History

Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History...

Author: Michael R. Dove
ISBN: 9780300270105
Format: Paperback
$51.95

This chronicle of natural history argues that the modern environmental crisis and rise in science skepticism codeveloped...  Read More >>

Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World: Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History

Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World:...

Author: Agathe Keller ,  Karine Chemla
ISBN: 9783031496165
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts....  Read More >>

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image

Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress...

Author: Gowan Dawson
ISBN: 9780300270624
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the “march of progress,” and its role in shaping our...  Read More >>

Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics: The CSHPM 2021 Volume

Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics: The...

Author: Maria Zack ,  David Waszek
ISBN: 9783031214967
Format: Paperback
$229.00

This volume contains eighteen papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy...  Read More >>

Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space

Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space

Author: Massimo Capaccioli
ISBN: 9783031547591
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of...  Read More >>

Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly (IAU S371): Astronomical Spectroscopy in the 21st Century

Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly (IAU S371): Astronomical...

Author: David R. Soderblom (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA) ,  Gillian Nave (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland)
ISBN: 9781009351928
Format: Hardback
$284.63

IAU Symposium 371 honors the contributions of Charlotte Moore Sitterly as a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy....  Read More >>

Von den Molukken zu Molekülen: Wie Naturstoffe Geschichte schreiben

Von den Molukken zu Molekülen: Wie Naturstoffe Geschichte...

Author: Oliver Kayser
ISBN: 9783662678411
Format: Hardback
$118.77

Beginnend mit den ersten Isolierungen zu Anfang der industriellen Revolution führt er uns mit den Ideen und der...  Read More >>

Moritz Hoernes: Pionier der Urgeschichtsforschung

Moritz Hoernes: Pionier der Urgeschichtsforschung

Author: Andreas Lippert
ISBN: 9783658435585
Format: Paperback
$184.77

Der Band ist eine Biografie des ersten Lehrkanzelinhabers für Prähistorische Archäologie im deutschen Sprachraum....  Read More >>

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium...

Author: Christfried Toegel
ISBN: 9781032696515
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics...  Read More >>

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous...

Author: Luke O'Neill
ISBN: 9780241994122
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A hugely accessible history of science that reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries Scientists...  Read More >>

Cranial Surgery - Part 2

Cranial Surgery - Part 2

Author: Jeremy C. Ganz (Ulverston, UK)
ISBN: 9780443317187
Format: Hardback
$760.32

This is a study of the evolution of the principles and techniques of cranial surgery from Hippocrates to the nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Science Museum Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Key Concepts

The Science Museum Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A...

Author: Eva Amsen
ISBN: 9780241659625
Format: Hardback
$35.00

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Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939: A Biographical Compendium...

Author: Christfried Toegel
ISBN: 9781032696522
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939 will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training as well as academics...  Read More >>

Kurt Gödel: Metamathematisches Genie

Kurt Gödel: Metamathematisches Genie

Author: William D. Brewer
ISBN: 9783031431500
Format: Hardback
$92.37

Zu seinen Lebzeiten war Kurt Gödel außerhalb der Fachwelt der Mathematiker, Philosophen und theoretischen Physiker...  Read More >>

Experimentation in the Sciences: Comparative and Long-Term Historical Research on Experimental Practice

Experimentation in the Sciences: Comparative and Long-Term...

Author: Catherine Allamel-Raffin ,  Jean-Luc Gangloff
ISBN: 9783031585043
Format: Hardback
$343.17

The collection fills a yawning gap in science, science studies, and philosophy of science teaching, making it particularly...  Read More >>

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and...

Author: Renée Bergland
ISBN: 9780691235288
Format: Hardback
$57.99

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and...  Read More >>

Curing Lives: Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia

Curing Lives: Surviving the HIV Epidemic in Ethiopia...

Author: Makoto Nishi
ISBN: 9789819918331
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns, Populations and Pathologies

Historical Explorations of Modern Epidemiology: Patterns,...

Author: Heini Hakosalo ,  Katariina Parhi
ISBN: 9783031206733
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The book identifies significant historical changes and the driving forces behind them, charting forms of science-society...  Read More >>

Relativity: The Special and The General Theory A Popular Exposition

Relativity: The Special and The General Theory A Popular...

Author: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9781715276928
Format: Hardback
$88.67

"The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those...  Read More >>

Charles Peirce and Modern Science

Charles Peirce and Modern Science

Author: T. L. Short
ISBN: 9781009223522
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book interprets Peirce's writings as informed by the spirit of modern science – systematic inquiry, not system-building...  Read More >>

Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume I

Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume I...

Author: David C Krakauer
ISBN: 9781947864528
Format: Hardback
$105.57

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Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume II

Foundational Papers in Complexity Science: Volume II...

Author: David C Krakauer
ISBN: 9781947864535
Format: Hardback
$92.37

Foundational Papers in Complexity Science maps the emergence of complex-systems science over the last century. This...  Read More >>

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