History of science books

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Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical, alchemical, natural philosophical and commercial knowledge...  Read More >>

Siobhán Collins re-evaluates Metempsychosis as a high point of Donne's poetic canon, situating the poem’s somatic...  Read More >>

Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of...  Read More >>

Historical Disasters in Context explores the close and complex relationship between human civilization and the physical...  Read More >>

This collection offers new perspectives on the study of science and religion, bringing together articles that highlight...  Read More >>

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò...  Read More >>

Starting with the pioneering work of Volta, Seebeck, and Peltier on thermoelectric phenomena, it takes the reader...  Read More >>

This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s...  Read More >>

This book critically examines different aspects of scientific and technological development in Ancient India. It...  Read More >>

In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses on the spaces in which it was pursued:...  Read More >>

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries...  Read More >>

Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both...  Read More >>

Pierre Gassendi was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy whose philosophical and scientific works contributed...  Read More >>

""This work is a hybrid of a scholarly edition and an academic monograph that focuses on the relation between science...  Read More >>

Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding...  Read More >>

This volume consists of a collection of primary sources throwing light on the various aspects of interplay between...  Read More >>

The Scottish writer, scientist and evangelist Henry Drummond wrote this influential book, originally published in...  Read More >>

The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one...  Read More >>

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and...  Read More >>

This book is for anyone fascinated by the late nineteenth century revolution in electrical technologies.This is...  Read More >>

This monograph presents a study of the most significant book in the history of anatomy, Fleming Andreas Vesalius’...  Read More >>

A bizarre and compelling biography of a scientist and his work, using rodent cities to question the potential catastrophes...  Read More >>

The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country  Read More >>

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