History of science books

25865 books were found.

Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ Social Networks, 1885–1925

Tea on the Terrace: Hotels and Egyptologists’ Social...

Author: Kathleen Sheppard
ISBN: 9781526166203
Format: Hardback
$185.00

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The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world

The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics...

Author: Tobias Hürter ,  David Shaw
ISBN: 9781914484421
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades...  Read More >>

Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century

Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century...

Author: Michael Friedman ,  Karin Krauthausen
ISBN: 9783030978327
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis...  Read More >>

Top-Down Causation and Emergence

Top-Down Causation and Emergence

Author: Jan Voosholz ,  Markus Gabriel
ISBN: 9783030719012
Format: Paperback
$448.77

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Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can...

Author: Michael E Mann ,  Tim Campbell
ISBN: 9781668638866
Format: Audio
$240.21

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows...  Read More >>

Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future-And Shape It

Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned...

Author: Byron Reese ,  Stephen Bel Davies
ISBN: 9798212252454
Format: Audio
$124.05

What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way? This fascinating tale explores the three leaps...  Read More >>

Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned to See the Future-And Shape It

Stories, Dice, and Rocks That Think: How Humans Learned...

Author: Byron Reese ,  Stephen Bel Davies
ISBN: 9798212252447
Format: Audio
$110.85

What makes the human mind so unique? And how did we get this way? This fascinating tale explores the three leaps...  Read More >>

Soju: A Global History

Soju: A Global History

Author: Hyunhee Park (City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781108816113
Format: Paperback
$80.21

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The Quantum Theory—Origins and Ideas: A Historical Primer for Physics Students

The Quantum Theory—Origins and Ideas: A Historical Primer...

Author: Carl S. Helrich
ISBN: 9783030792701
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book offers a fresh perspective on some of the central experimental and theoretical works that laid the foundations...  Read More >>

Numbers: A Cultural History

Numbers: A Cultural History

Author: Robert Kiely
ISBN: 9781440869334
Format: Hardback
$114.00

Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics...  Read More >>

Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomic Emotions

Cosmology and the Scientific Self in the Nineteenth...

Author: Howard Carlton
ISBN: 9783031052798
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book argues that while the historiography of the development of scientific ideas has for some time acknowledged...  Read More >>

The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and How Wool Wove a Forgotten Road to the Double-Helix

The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and How...

Author: Kersten T. Hall (Visiting Fellow, Visiting Fellow, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9780198766964
Format: Paperback
$45.95

Tells the story of the English physicist and molecular biologist William T. Astbury and how his work forms a previously...  Read More >>

The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What...

Author: Stephen J. Pyne
ISBN: 9780520391635
Format: Paperback
$37.95

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History of Psychology in Latin America: A Cultural Approach

History of Psychology in Latin America: A Cultural Approach...

Author: Julio César Ossa ,  Gonzalo Salas
ISBN: 9783030736842
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book presents a cultural history of psychology that analyzes the diverse contexts in which psychological knowledge...  Read More >>

William Davis on Book of Mormon Translation

William Davis on Book of Mormon Translation

Author: Rick C Bennett ,  William Davis
ISBN: 9798849238982
Format: Paperback
$27.56

Many LDS members argue that the Book of Mormon could not have been created by a man and is a miracle. They've challenged...  Read More >>

The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to Agriculture

The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from...

Author: Peter Bellwood
ISBN: 9780691197579
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural...  Read More >>

The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality

The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the...

Author: P. J. E. Peebles
ISBN: 9780691231358
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural science...  Read More >>

Pathogens Crossing Borders: Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860–1947

Pathogens Crossing Borders: Global Animal Diseases and...

Author: Cornelia Knab
ISBN: 9780367471880
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the history of international efforts to contagious animal diseases from the 1860s to the mid-1940s....  Read More >>

American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865

American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light,...

Author: Jeremy Zallen
ISBN: 9781469672540
Format: Paperback
$76.99

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Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts

Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts...

Author: LIU Yan (Lecturer at Kunming University of Science and Technology, China)
ISBN: 9780367624316
Format: Paperback
$87.99

Focusing on the woven arch bridge, the book traces histories of...  Read More >>

Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account

Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account...

Author: Nathaniel Goldberg (Washington & Lee Unviersity, USA) ,  Chris Gavaler (Washington & Lee University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367508753
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It...  Read More >>

Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918

Science in the Metropolis: Vienna in Transnational Context,...

Author: Mitchell G. Ash (Universität Wien, Austria)
ISBN: 9780367612597
Format: Paperback
$89.99

This book presents new research on ""thick spaces"" of scientific research and processes of interurban and transnational...  Read More >>

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