History of science books

Challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates...  Read More >>

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An valuable guide through the changing terminology and practices of scientific research in the field of the physical...  Read More >>

The fascinating story of the Venetian who helped to map the World during the Renaissance, by the author of A Venetian...  Read More >>

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior  Read More >>

The true story of the discovery of a new Australian dinosaur with very special bones.  Read More >>

The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of...  Read More >>

This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s entry into the medical profession,...  Read More >>

This volume explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive...  Read More >>

This volume examines the contemporary fear that hospital patients, mostly of working-class origin, were being experimented...  Read More >>

What are the unequivocal causes of a scientific revolution? In this book, Rinat Nugayev proposes an ideal model...  Read More >>

The existence of the Italian abacus and German cossic algebra is at most taken note of but they are not read, leading...  Read More >>

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Von der Physik bis zur Informationstheorie und Kosmologie, von der Struktur tierischer Gesellschaften bis zur linguistischen...  Read More >>

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a grand vision project to build the most sensitive radio telescope in the world....  Read More >>

Offering a history of travel, tourism and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace follows Egyptologists between home and...  Read More >>

A history of the meanings and ideas around carbon, fossil fuels, and their bearing within colonial expansion is...  Read More >>

La meteorologie ancienne et medievale se distingue de son equivalent contemporain par un domaine d'etudes autrement...  Read More >>

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From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically...  Read More >>

This book is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical...  Read More >>

A tour of Mars in the human imagination, from ancient astrologers to modern explorers. Mars and its secrets have...  Read More >>

From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, a brilliant graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year...  Read More >>

The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological...  Read More >>