History of science books

"In 1922, researchers made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the century: insulin. Their discovery...  Read More >>

Evaluationen, Monitoring und Formen der Qualitatssicherung spielen heute eine zentrale Rolle im Wissenschaftssystem....  Read More >>

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Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?  Read More >>

The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art...  Read More >>

Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift...  Read More >>

L'esprit de Leibniz ne comportait en effet ni la précision géométrique, ni la persévérance rigide de celui de Descartes....  Read More >>

This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods....  Read More >>

Photographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift...  Read More >>

This book traces the history of how evolutionary biology transformed its understanding of females from being coy,...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the history and epistemology of early modern cosmology. The volume investigates how, in the...  Read More >>

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This book provides a broad overview of Professor Raimo Väyrynen’s academic work, his role in international research...  Read More >>

"For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures...  Read More >>

"For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures...  Read More >>

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This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript...  Read More >>

This book systematically introduces readers to traditional Chinese handicrafts, which are original, distinct, and...  Read More >>

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures...  Read More >>

This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related...  Read More >>

This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history,...  Read More >>

Karl R. Popper is widely regarded as one of the most influential 20th century philosophers. In this new biography,...  Read More >>

This book provides a remarkable and complete survey of important questions at the interface between theoretical...  Read More >>

Acclaimed science writer George Johnson brings his formidable reporting skills to the first biography of Nobel Prize-winner...  Read More >>