History of science books

A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource...  Read More >>

The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth...  Read More >>

Even now, as observers and scientists continue to use conjecture to generate theoretical assumptions and laws that...  Read More >>

"The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one Our books,...  Read More >>

"""How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science""--"  Read More >>

A groundbreaking history of fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynasty Today...  Read More >>

This book discusses the technological developments achieved by distinguished figures in the history of mechanism...  Read More >>

"""An eye-opening, comprehensive history of diabetes research and treatment, by the best-selling author of Why We...  Read More >>

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Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international 'scientific community'...  Read More >>

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural...  Read More >>

These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men...  Read More >>

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This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. This book...  Read More >>

This book describes William Dawes’ life and professional achievements. William Dawes was a British Marine serving...  Read More >>

Moreover, although this field was dominated by men early on, it has become a field with near sexual parity among...  Read More >>

This book reprints ten papers on contextual elements of the so-called ancient sciences in Islamicate societies between...  Read More >>

"Übung; es ist entscheidend für das Verständnis der Komplexitäten aktueller Debatten in Wissenschaft, Technologie...  Read More >>

From the Atom to Living Systems represents an original historico-epistemological approach to follow the passage,...  Read More >>

Building on an interdisciplinary foundation that includes the history of medicine, science, and technology, disability...  Read More >>

Die Vorgeschichte der Raumfahrzeuge enthüllt schließlich eine Bedrohung von galaktischem Ausmaß, die nur mit Hilfe...  Read More >>

The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise; Its Habitat and its Time of Growth, a classical book, has been considered important...  Read More >>

The Irish cook one day proposed to the ship's captain the following conundrum: Is anny thin' lost whin yeez know...  Read More >>

Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human...  Read More >>